Common Lexeme

awcel

Keywords: prepositions, modifiers, adjectives, adverbs, relative clauses, dependent clauses

Pronunciation (IPA): 'aw.d͡ʒel 
Part of Speech: modifier 
Class: preposition 
Forms: awcel 
Glosses: often, frequent, at a frequency, ever, every 

Description:

The modifier 'awcel' has a base meaning of 'often' and is used to introduce expressions of frequency. It can be used on its own and can be adjusted with a tight binding modifier to make expressions like very often, 'faj awcel'. Awcel is usually used with verbs.

Awcel can take an object which is a noun phrase in the nominative case that describes the frequency of the action. In this usage it has a reading of 'every' and the noun phrase is usually a recurrent event or time expression.

Used with questions, instead of meaning 'often' it can be read as 'ever', especially with the tight binding modifier 'sino', 'a little'.

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