-anyi

See also: anyi

Wanyi

Suffix

-anyi

1. 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)