OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Schapper (2020): Wersing Peitoko

-a[-a]

•  suffix. suffix marking clause-final verbs, indicating that the event is realized and the clause is a statement of fact.

Grammatical note: Not all verbs appear to permit this suffix; on some metathesizing verbs, the vowel-final form seems to function as realis mood marking.