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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/15/2021 9:42 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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cite="mid:CAP7F2cK9K17ce3P=EvVNGjn45fMxs5q2QeDn_VTMuCLdZR76ig@mail.gmail.com">In
the paq'batlh we have:
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<div dir="auto">{wa'DIch Hegh moratlh} for "first, morath fell".</div>
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<div dir="auto">Suppose now we want to say "we didn't attack them
first", meaning "we were not the ones who attacked first".</div>
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<div dir="auto">Based on the paq'batlh example, would it work if
we wrote {wa'DIch DIHIvpu'be'}?</div>
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<p>I believe in the <i>paq'batlh</i> sentence, <b>wa'DIch</b>
isn't so much modifying a verb adverbially as it is acting as a
sort of disconnected preamble. Imagine it this way:</p>
<p><b>wanI' wa'DIch: Hegh moratlh</b><i> First event: Morath dies.</i></p>
<p>I have no proof that this is what is happening, but I think it
more likely than for ordinals to be considered pure adverbials.
That is, I don't think <b>wa'DIch</b> is being used to mean "in
the manner of being first." If this is correct, then your proposed
sentence doesn't work.</p>
<p>Here's one reason to think I may be right. Elsewhere in <i>paq'batlh</i>
we see <b>wa'DIch nach 'ay' / cha'DIch ghIv 'ay' / wejDIch burgh
'ay', </b>etc. These ordinals are acting in exactly the same
was as in <b>wa'DIch Hegh moratlh,</b> but they aren't modifying
any verbs. They make perfect sense if you think of them as saying:
<i>first rite: the form of the head / second rite: the form of the
legs and arms / third rite: the form of the stomach,</i> etc.<br>
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