Q. ná interj. “yes, it is so, it is a fact” (Category: True)

Q. ná, interj. “yes, it is so, it is a fact” (Category: True)

Q. (a)lá “yes”

References ✧ PE22/166; VT49/28

Glosses

• “it is a fact (= yes)” ✧ PE22/166
• “it is so, yes” ✧ PE22/166
• “yes, it is so” ✧ VT49/28

Variations

• ná ✧ PE22/166; PE22/166; VT49/28
• nása ✧ PE22/166; PE22/166

Related

• ná “yes, it is so, it is a fact” versus sá “very good, all right, I will, I agree of course, of course I do”

Elements

ná-

“to be”

Element In

• Q. náquet- “to assent, agree (on fact); (lit.) to say ‘it is’”
• Q. nácë “it may be seeming, *qualified yes” ✧ VT49/28 (náke)
• Q. náto “it is that; *yes (emphatic)” ✧ VT49/28

Cognates

• ᴺS. !naw “yes”

ᴱQ. ná interj. “so, yes (it is)” (Category: True)

Reference ✧ QL/64 ✧ nā “so, yes (it is)”

Derivations

• < ᴱ√NĀ “be, exist” ✧ QL/64

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√NĀ > nā

[nā]

✧ QL/64