Explanations in English | The commencement of modal and relative nouns from verbs in man- before vowels, or where the initial consonant of the root has been rejected, or strengthened, as fanaiky, and fanekena, from aiky, or eky; fandeha, and fandehanana, from leha; fanoratra, and fanoratana, from soratra, etc. [Comp. Swa. fanya, to make to do.] The commencement of many modal nouns from verbs in man- where there has been an elision or strengthening of the initial consonant of the root, as: famono, from vono; famaky, from vaky; famafa, from fafa; fambata, from bata; it is also seen in the relative nouns from the same, as famonjena, from vonjy, etc. [1.2]
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