prepositions

Noun

plural form of preposition

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative form of preposition

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Under his name two fragments are extant - the longer from his work on orthography (De orthographia), the shorter (chiefly on the use of prepositions) from another grammatical work.
Sumerian has only postpositions instead of prepositions, which occur exclusively in Semitic. In this point also Sumerian is in accord with all other agglutinative idioms. Note Sumerian e-da, " in the house " (e, " house," +da, " in," by dissimilation), and compare Turkish ev, " house," de, " in," and evde, " in the house."
But the spelling then was very concise: it is possible that some of the slighter words, such as prepositions, were omitted in the writing, and were intended to be supplied from the context.
Prepositions also are " conjugated " in Welsh, their objects, if pronominal, being expressed by endings.
The use of cases and genders, the construction of verbs and prepositions, and the verbal forms exhibit striking irregularities.

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