Kóoray

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Pages of the library’s works where this word appears.

• … áw to attach háwhaw to attach many kós to cut koskós to cut in pieces mún to throw out munmún to throw out (repeatedly) cidáy to be red cidícidi to be very red kóoray to be white korókoray to be very white ceená to be small cinícina to be very small báqbaq The disyllabic roots shown in (b) above reduplicate the initial CVC. A copy vowel is inserted to link to the complete second segment. All

  Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 86

• 135 Morphology (153) No morpheme 3.2.8.2 verb bíibi gloss to be black adjective kóoray to be white kóoray cidáy to be red cidáy bíibi Tamasheq cognates: derivation with /-an/ Di-syllabic stative verbs of Tamasheq origin take a suffix -an ADJZR to mark a modifier in a noun phrase. In Tamasheq the masculine singular form of the (stative) “participle”suffix is /-ăn/. In a clause like ‘black man’ the verbal stem ‘to be black’ is inflected with this participial suffix, e.g. /ă-hál …

  Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 153