The suffix used for the
draft-instrumental case, translated “with” (SD/438). In a later conceptual stage, it became the ordinary prepositional suffix
-mâ. Carl Hostetter and Partick Wynne suggested (
VSH/33,
AAD/19) that the deleted form
-men on SD/311 is a separate prepositional suffix “on” related to ᴹQ.
men “place”, but I believe it is a variant of the plural instrumental form
-main.