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"2": "vocative",
"3": "ly"
},
"expansion": "vocative + -ly",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "vocative + -ly",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more vocatively",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most vocatively",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
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{
"ref": "2004, Hein van der Voort, A Grammar of Kwaza, page 722",
"text": "Kinship terminology is reportedly not used vocatively in family II, whereas it is in family I (note that Kwaza has no vocative morpheme). It is by MA considered ugly to use the words for 'husband' and 'wife' vocatively.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"In a vocative way."
],
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"vocative"
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}
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"word": "vocatively"
}
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"2": "vocative",
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},
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],
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},
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"ref": "2004, Hein van der Voort, A Grammar of Kwaza, page 722",
"text": "Kinship terminology is reportedly not used vocatively in family II, whereas it is in family I (note that Kwaza has no vocative morpheme). It is by MA considered ugly to use the words for 'husband' and 'wife' vocatively.",
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"In a vocative way."
],
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