spheniscine wrote:
> Actually I'm beginning to think you may have a point. Consider
>
> lo nu ko'a broda ko'e lo nu ko'i ko'o brode i'au po'o broda brode
>
> po'o would be more naturally interpreter to attach to that last
> construct, so why should it work if that nested-NU occurs at the end?
>
> This does complicate things somewhat. Both these usages want something
> short (hence my booking of the precious, and atypical, monosyllabic cmavo

> iau for this)

.i'au and .iau can be different but closely related.