v. (Ia)

a. wa-kánaḥ meráṭeʸh ‘And he warned him again’ (CSOL II 7:16)

b. báˁad-ˀaḷ béne wa-ˀaḷ ḥódir yekánaḥ yegóref έˀɛfo kor yeḥóufor žíľɛb ‘When he has built the stone wall and put the dry palm ribs on it, he again invites people to dig holes for the saplings’ (CSOL II 9:6)

c. wa-rö́mos ḥe díˀʸho embaṭáṭaʰ wa-kánaḥ áḳaˁ sourέdi bɛr tέˀɛʰ ‘And he (the camel) also ploughed through my sweet potatoes and then he hit two little lambs of mine’ (CSOL II 15:15) 

‘To do something again (repetitive)’ (a, b)

‘To do something more (not exactly repeating the previous action but rather doing the next action in a chain of actions)’ (c)

The grammatical features of kánaḥ usually copy those of the main verb (a, b, c). In the following example, the grammatical subject of kánaḥ does not coincide with that of the main verb:

wa-kánaḥk ˁógiľ ḥe ˁag wa-ˁážeʰ wa-díˀʸhen ˁougénoʰ ‘And then I met a man, his wife and their daughter’ (CSOL II 12:9)

The verb appears mostly in preposition to the main verb, but the reverse word order is also possible:

wa-ḳaˁ kánaḥ díˀʸheʰ šégreʰ ‘And he started again to ask the riddle of his tree’ (CSOL II 4:15)

• kᵉnaḥ to grant, to give something as a gift, without compensation
• katénaḥ to return, to come back
• di-kénaḥ once again
• mektínaḥ coming back, return