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Robert LeChevalier scripsit:
> >Is {da'a} by itself {da'apa} or {da'asu'o}? The latter is
> >indeed equivalent to {me'iro}.
>
> It is elliptical in the same way that all of the other omitted words are
> elliptical.
Well, no. CLL 18.8 specifies that "da'a" by itself is "da'apa",
"all but one". Further, in ordinal contexts it means "all but the last".
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