kǝlá

Noun n.

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Français: Une fois
English: once
العربية: مرة واحدة

Source : Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), p. 34 — English and Arabic meanings translated from French, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). kǝlá (once). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1198-kela (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctaronce,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{kǝlá (once)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1198-kela},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… fit à identifier le pronom 2s. Le complémenteur sa se comporte de la même manière lorsqu'il précède des mots commençant par une consonne initiale aphone, comme kǝlá "une fois" dans l'exemple suivant : tanǝfust ǝs kǝla aɣ₌nǝ-mó (aa)₌se histoire COMP une fois 1s₌NEG.PERF-entendre 3s₌DAT une histoire dont je n'ai jamais entendu parler. Numéros composés La resyllabisation a également lieu dans les chiffres composés, ce qui peut être dû à la même contrainte que ci-dessus. Cf. l'ex …

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 34
44 words beginning with a voiceless initial consonant such as kǝlá ‘once’ in the following example. (75) tanǝfust story ǝs kǝla aɣ₌nǝ-mó COMP once (aa)₌se 1s₌NEG.PERF-hear 3s₌DAT a story that I have never heard of. 2.4.2.3 Compound numbers Resyllabification also takes place in compound numerals, which may be due to the same constraint as above. Cf. the following example, in which four open syllables would follow each other. A short vowel is inserted between the two number uni …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 61
… cases the storyteller may have conveyed that she/he judges the behavior of that particular participant undesirable, not good for the hearer to copy. (20) i₌ccí kǝlá kǝlá 3p₌say once once thing.DEBR DEM.FAR hó sé [na OPP wáy woman fó] IND there was once this woman... Songhay of Gao has a preverbal direct object morpheme /na/ that also precedes the noun (or pronoun) it marks (Heath 1999b:212). Semantically far from determiner, this particle is by its shape and syntactic behavio …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 171

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