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On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:04:58AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> 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".
Huh? Shouldn't it be "the second-to-last"? I've only seen it used
to mean that.... Maybe that's what you meant?
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