290 6 Prepositions
(294) Pronominal Paradigm of jer 'between' (T-ka)
person Sg PI
(^1) jer-i, jer-er jere-naer
2Ma jer-ak jere-wwaen
2Fe jer-sm jere-kmaet
3Ma jer-as jere-ssaen
3Fe II jere-snaet
I recorded the same data from the R speaker, and (with g for j) similar
forms for the Gao area. However, Gao and R speakers also gave the following
variants, with the short form of the stem before PI as well as Sg suffixes: 1P1
jer-naer, 2MaPl jer-waen, and 2FePl jer-kmaet.
For A-grm and some Gao-area dialects I recorded gaer 'between'. The
A-grm speaker also used gaer- before a pronominal (gaer-lAdar-ak 'between
you-Sg and me', gaer-saen 'among them', gaer-naer 'between us', etc.).
6.6.3 'toward' (ebre-)
'Toward X' (where X is a location) is expressed by the dialectal variants in
(295). ebre (or variant) is syntactically a noun rather than a true preposition,
and takes a complement noun (or pronominal) in possessor form (296).
(295) 'Toward'
form dialect
a. simple
ebre T-ka
bre, baere Κ
Ibere K-d
b. with Instrumental s
s ebre T-ka T-md
s "as-bret A-grm
s et A-grm
(296) ebre η Vae-salje
toward Poss Fe-Sg-left
'toward the left'
In context, the Tamashek 'toward' forms, like French vers, can be used in
the sense 'around X, in the vicinity of X'.
