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Browse the Ainu morpheme database — composition, valency, and how each morpheme combines.

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もん
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田村1996 brackets [mon-rayke 手・殺す]; the incorporated mon 'hand' saturates the patient slot of rayke (ray + transitivising -ke, see the ray family), yielding an intransitive.

The noun use 仕事 is zero-derived from the verb (田村1996「(名詞として使って)仕事」), the same conversion as itak 'speak / speech'.

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input: monrayke

tokens: mon · ray · -ke