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Let's rethink motion here.We have movement described with respect to an object as 'to' and 'from', and also by 'towards' and, sort of, 'away from'
In short, I can walk to you or towards you. The first signifies that I end up 'at' you, the second not necessarily, just that I'm moving in the direction I'd move if I was going to end up at you.
Likewise, I can move from you, or in a direction away from you. The first means that I started right there with you, the second not so.
So it looks to me as though we need two pairs of 'prepositions' . Possibilities: towards and away from for (Danish) and fro (which echoes the English 'to and fro') ver (French) and vre to and from ko and de (but they aren't reversals) sila and sali (but they're two-syllable) dwar and draw (German draussen)I may be trying too hard here to make a neat paradigm here. Clearly we need a to and a from, and it would be nice if they were reversals, which I can't do with 'ko', tho 'poko' is a possibility for from, I suppose.
I have 'dwey' in the dictionary for 'towards' but it won't reverse, either.
Cleanest thing to do would be to make a priori words that will reverse.At this point, I'm inclined to adopt ko and de for the first meaning, and use dwey and podwey for towards and its opposite.
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