~mikae¹ do what? / … or what? Uttered when hesitating about a proper verb

Part of Speech	verb, intransitive
Phonetic Form	(i·)mikae
Variant Form(s)	~mukae
Tanema Equivalent	~jive
Lovono Equivalent	~wo, ~ñese
Morphology	Cf. ~kae ‘do how?’

1. • do what?

   Lexical Function Gloss	be why?
   Syntactic Restriction	interrogative verb

   • • Example 1644:
       

       U-le u-mikae?

       What are you going to do?

     • Example 1645:
       

       I-mukae ne eo?

       What did he do to you?

2. • … or what? Uttered when hesitating about a proper verb
   • • Disc

   Syntactic Restriction

   tag question

   • • Example 1646:
       

       Bwara ka li-ae tanoe we, ka li-mukae?

       They must have dug the ground, or what?

Related entries

• Heterosemes:
  • ~mikae² do what to ‹s.o., s.th.›
• See also:
  • ~kae¹ question verb enquiring on a situation, or the manner of an action / do how? / be how?
  • ~ve¹ interrogative verb
  • ~ejau¹ do ‹s.th., ngatene›, act in a certain way / make, create, prepare ‹s.th.› / prepare ‹food›, cook ‹s.th.› / provide ‹medicine›, prepare (for s.o., ñe) / make up ‹story, piene›, fabricate / make ‹s.th. happen›, make ‹s.o. do s.th.›: Causative