haa not

Part of Speech neg
Morphology haa
Gloss NEG2
    • not
      • negation
      • Comment <haa> is the second part of a disjunctive negation whose first part (NEG1) is <sa>, <saka> or <samin>. The constructions with a disjunctive negation always form the predicate of a clause.
      • Example 1779:
        Evehee ahiki, sa sue haa, ...
        But no, (she) did not say (anything), ...
        Source: Iar 02RG 267
      • Example 1780:
        Saka manin vigisi haa, eara kahi nao vaha ra.
        It must not be too late, we´ll go again.
        Source: Sii 06RG 328
      • Example 1781:
        a otei vai ei sa otei haana
        this man here was not a man.
        Source: Sii 06RG 378

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