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Bisayan grammar and notes on Bisayan rhetoric and poetics and Filipino dialectology

Note 6 — Parts of Speech.

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But in must of the adjectives formed with ma (a particle bearing the idea of abundance) and ha6 (a particle that bears the idea of place), like maopay, mabusag, mapulá, hatáas, halabà, the prefixes ma or ha are disregarded in the formation of their diminutives, their abstract roots being the only elements taken into consideration, as if such adjectives were dyssillabic. Thus, opay, busag, pulá, táas, lubà, being the abstract roots of the last mentioned adjectives, their diminutives will be:

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