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sasabyen

sasabyen
Sense 1
English: Translation
Something that is about to be said, told, stated, or communicated.
Sense 2
English: Translation
What a person intends or is preparing to say
Sense 3
English: Translation
The particular message or information that is forthcoming.
Notes

sasabyen

v.; n., prospective content-oriented form

Morphology: partial reduplication + sabi + -en
sa- + sabi + -en → sasabien → sasabyen

  1. Something that is about to be said, told, stated, or communicated.
  2. What a person intends or is preparing to say.
  3. The particular message or information that is forthcoming.

The form foregrounds the anticipated content of speech. It presents the utterance as prospective, imminent, intended, or not yet fully expressed.

Usage

Ana sasabyen ko sa inyo sa sasabien Boie’nen.
“What I am about to say to you is in the Boie’nen language.”

Onong sasabyen mo sa’ken?
“What are you about to tell me?”

Morphophonemic note

The root-final i of sabi becomes the palatal glide y before the vowel-initial suffix -en:

sabi + -en → sabien → sabyen

With prospective partial reduplication:

sa- + sabyen → sasabyen

Semantic note

Sasabyen does not refer to language in general. It refers to a particular forthcoming utterance, message, statement, or piece of information.

Compare

sabyen — to say, tell, or state a particular thing.
sasabyen — what is about to be said or told.
sasabien — language; an established system or manner of speaking.

Linguistic History
Sasabyen and sasabien must be maintained as separate dictionary headwords. Although both are morphologically related to sabi, they differ in both pronunciation and grammatical function. Sasabyen, with glide formation i + e → ye, is an event-oriented prospective form meaning “what is about to be said.” Sasabien, with syllabic i retained, is a lexicalized noun meaning “language.” Their contrast is directly attested in Ana sasabyen ko sa inyo sa sasabien Boie’nen, where sasabyen denotes the forthcoming message and sasabien denotes the language used to express it.