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*'''Locative''' (LOC): place | *'''Locative''' (LOC): place | ||
**Mostly with common expressions such as ''gehixu'' (in the house). | **Mostly with common expressions such as ''gehixu'' (in the house). | ||
*'''Temporal''' (TEMP): time | *'''Temporal''' (TEMP): time | ||
**Used adverbially to express the moment of time. Mostly occurs in proper temporal nouns although the divine gender shares forms (thus confusing). | **Used adverbially to express the moment of time. Mostly occurs in proper temporal nouns although the divine gender shares forms (thus confusing). | ||
**To adverbialize verb infinites | **To [[Aoma#Adverbial clauses|adverbialize]] verb infinites | ||
**See [[Aoma#Temporal expressions|expressions of time]] | **See [[Aoma#Temporal expressions|expressions of time]] | ||
=====Compound nouns===== | |||
Using genitive or dative cases is the most usual way of creating compound words, but they can be joined together as well. The strong right-branching of Aoma is visible in the compounds in such manner that, when words are joined together, the head noun stays on the left while modifiers and the origin-suffix ''s*'' with correct head gender succeed it. | |||
*Genitive: ''heshii geedyr'' "the top of a mountain" | |||
*Dative: ''heshii geedyee'' "the top for the mountain" | |||
*Joined: ''heshigeedysi'' top-mountain-N | |||
**compare English "mountaintop" | |||
===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||