Tanım
•existential verb: there be; there is · indicates possession: to have
Etimoloji
Dialectal ad-on points to an original *adaʔún, wherein the middle vowel was elided regularly before a stressed syllable; the first element could be compared with Ilocano adda (“to have”), Malay ada (“to be, have”) and their cognate Cebuano word wala (“there is not”); suffixed with -on. The final "-a" is a common feature among the existential verbs adia, ania, anaa, atua.