Dairwueh has two and a half level of demonstratives.
The two basic ones are 'this', av, and 'that', xev. The third, ŋev, is only distinguished in the nominative and genitive, and otherwise conflates with xev. The basic inflections are:
nom acc dat gen loc-instr xev, xej xena xenar xenat xeŋa ŋev, ŋej ŋenat av, aj ana anar anat aŋa
There are some further related adverbials derived from the same roots:
xeke - there
ŋeke - there (even further away)
ajke - here
xekem - thither
ŋekem - thither
ajkem - hither
xeŋesa - from there
xeŋesa - from even further away
aŋesa - from here
There are also verbs deriving from these roots, although ŋe- entirely is absent from these.
xevin - to go towards there
avin - to come towards here
xevki - to arrive there
avki - to arrive here
xeŋsin - to leave from there
aŋsin - to leave from here
xeski - to exit an enclosed volume, such as a house
ŋaski - to exit an enclosed volume, such as a house, in which the speaker is located
These four infinitives ending in -ki are the only Dairwueh infinitives to end in vowels. Beyond the verbs above there are also causatives, which are the main ways of expressing 'bringing' something:
xevlik - to bring thereAvlik is mostly common as an imperative, avlu, avlisu, but appears in other forms as well. Xevlik in all its forms is by all counts significantly more common.
avlik - to bring here
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