Old words
The words on this page were official or in very common use, but have since fallen into disuse.
Linking words
The words fı, go, cu, and ke/ta used to mark the slot (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th) that the following noun phrase fills. toaq.org writes:
Without marking, an argument phrase always goes in the lowest numbered unfilled place. Using linking words, that order can be manipulated: Bỏdoa jí cu hó ní tỉaı.
pa
pa used to be a word like bı marking an "applied prenex":
The second type of prenex is the applied prenex. This type differs from the topical prenex in that in addition to the functionality of topical prenexes, argument phrases that are part of the prenex become arguments of the predicate, in order of their appearance. Only then are the arguments following the predicate evaluated.
An example from "Báorēo Nủq":
Chûq hó núq pa cả dêq mủıdūa hó pó báq nỉaı ga tỏaq da.
Eating the snake had given him power of understanding the language of animals.
In modern Toaq, we just use bı with pronouns: Chûq hó núq bı cả róu dêq…
Other words
- do used to be a "variable name" meaning the same thing as raı. Also doshı, dogu mean the same thing.
- ha, hıa, hue used to be interjections (now haha, aja, obe).
- toaq used to mean "language" (now zu).
- duo used to mean "move" (now duy).
- suo used to mean "broken" (now zuy).
- la used to make a meta comment about the sentence: la buoq = this sentence is silly, I'm being silly.
- lû used to be a complementizer (now lâ).
- na used to have the meaning of cy and ky, terminating all statements. It's now only found in na ru (statement coordination), but even that may be removed soon.
- ıq (and maybe oq) were almost-officially-proposed markers of "high" adverbials.
- jeo used to be “___ is true; ___ satisfies property ___” — it is now split into jeo and ıq.
- go, after being a 2nd-slot marker, used to be a question tag illocution, used for agreement seeking, as in “blahblahblah, ’’right’’?”. (now nhó or zí)