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Menu 1. Infinitive 2. Nouns of places 3. Nouns of agency 4. Nouns of instruments 5. Passive participles 6. Diminutives 7. Comparatives

[edit] [top]Infinitive

Infinitives/verbal nouns are formed with the suffix -taz (GA-agentive class).

[edit] [top]Nouns of places

Nouns designating places end in -n (U-agentive class), e.g. Lekin "the country of the Leki people".

[edit] [top]Nouns of agency

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"

[edit] [top]Nouns of instruments

Prefix o-:
cica "thresh" (aorist stem)
ocica "flail"

[edit] [top]Passive participles

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)

[edit] [top]Diminutives

Reduplication of the first syllable
lik "duck"
lilik "duckling"

[edit] [top]Comparatives

Infix -l- after the first consonant of the root
fuseis "late"
fluseis "later"
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