Definitions
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- adjective grammar Indicating motion toward the deictic center, often the
speaker .
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Examples
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The cislocative prefix _de (te) _ gives the sense of "hither."
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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_Thatotarho_ is the passive voice and cislocative form of _otarho_, which is defined "to grasp," or
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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The cislocative, expressing motion towards the speaker, and the translocative, indicating motion tending from him.
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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The terminal syllable _ne_ and the prefixed _te_ are respectively the signs of the motional and the cislocative forms, -- "I _come hither_ again to greet and thank."
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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This great chief, whose name is better known as Atotarho (without the cislocative prefix), is of the Bear clan.
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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With the cislocative prefix _de_ it means "on this side of the thicket."
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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The cislocative, frequentative, and progressive forms are all combined in this expressive word -- "you kept seeing as you came."
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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(as the word would be spelt in modern orthography) appears to be the aorist subjunctive of _atkahthos_, to see, in the cislocative and frequentative forms.
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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