Word derivation in Leki
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2. Voices in Leki
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Infinitives/verbal nouns are formed with the suffix -taz (GA-agentive class).
Nouns designating places end in -n (U-agentive class), e.g. Lekin "the country of the Leki people".
Agents are indicated by infixing -i- before the last consonant of the root:
rewa "swim" (aorist stem)
reiwa "swimmer"
tuno "kill" (aorist stem)
tuyno "killer"
ba "sing" (aorist stem)
iba "singer"
Prefix o-:
cica "thresh" (aorist stem)
ocica "flail"
Infix -z- before the last consonant of the root
*IYU > iu "tidy" (aorist stem)
izyu "tidy" (adjective)
Represents any argument in the absolute or dative case, e.g.:
exo "live" (aorist stem), argument in the dative case
ezxo "alive" (adjective)
Reduplication of the first syllable
lik "duck"
lilik "duckling"
Infix -l- after the first consonant of the root
fuseis "late"
fluseis "later"
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