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ವ್ಯುತ್ಪತ್ತಿ ನಿಘಂಟು (Učida & Rajapurohit)
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part.
(interr.) a particle occurring at the end of interrogative sentence expecting “yes” or “no” in answer ű ಅವನು ನಿನ್ನ ಮಗನೇ ? Is that person your son?
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part.
(stress) a particle that serves to pinpoint or focus sharply on the referent of the word to which it is added (the nearest expression in English would be “none/nothing but”) ű ಅವನೇ ನನ್ನ ವೈರಿ. None but he is my enemy.
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(gram., call) a vocative marker ű ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರೇ, ನಿಮಗೆ ಹೇಳಲು ಒಂದು ಒಳ್ಳೆಯ ಸುದ್ದಿ ಇದೆ. Friends, I have a good news to tell you.
Kannada-English Etymological Dictionary — N. Uchida & B. B. Rajapurohit, ed. J. Takashima, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2018). CC BY-NC 4.0