Datapoint Abkhaz / The Optative

Language
Genus: Northwest Caucasian, Family: Northwest Caucasian
Feature
The Optative by Nina Dobrushina , Johan van der Auwera and Valentin Goussev
Value
Inflectional optative present
Source
Daur Zantaria, p.c.
References

Examples

 

source: Daur Zantaria, p.c.;

Would you become beautiful!
bara əʒala sy-zha-nda
ты.F красивый 2.-расти-OPTI
May I die!
sy-ps-aait’
I-die-OPTII
‘Greetings!’ (lit. ‘May you see something good!’)
Bzia  wy-ba-aait'! 
good you-see-OPT1
I wish she‘d drink the water.
Ma  a-dzə  l-zhʷə-nda. 
PCL DEF-water 3.F-drink-OPT2