Definify.com
Definition 2024
-anyi
-anyi
See also: anyi
Wanyi
Suffix
-anyi
- dative suffix
- kijibajianyi miyaanyi, budangku nayi kara — there are no dangerous snakes in this country (literally ≈ this country [has] an absence of dangerous snakes)
- budangkubarri warnamianyi — there is no water here now (literally ≈ now [there is] an absence of water)
See also
- -ngi
References
- Mary Laughren, Rob Pensalfini, Tom Mylne, Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language, in Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages (2005)