User:Ceige/*kel

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Grammar

Nouns

Case

  • Nominative: Ø
  • Accusative: -m
  • Genitive: -n
  • Partitive: -d (sources of things: movement, actions, ownership)
  • Dative: -i (destination of things: movement, actions, ownership)
  • Ablative: -či
  • Comitative/Instrumental?: -l(ə/a)
  • -ka? -kə?

Helper Particles

  • Additive particle: -to

Suffixes

  • Nominalisation suffix: -ma
  • Nominalisation suffix 2: -kV (-kə? -ka?)
  • Agent suffix: -čin
  • Tool suffix: -lə/-(ə?)r (-rin? -lin?)

Verbs

  • Nominalisation suffix: -ma
  • Copula: bi
  • Continuative: -(ə)mbi
  • Past suffix: -ta

Phrases

  • Interrogative particle: -ko

Pronouns

Personal Pronouns
Person Singular Plural
First person min mV (me?)
Second person sin tV (te?)
Third person nin nV (ne?)
Demonstratives
Person Singular Plural
Proximal ? ?
Distal ? ?
Over the hill and across the creek nin ne

Wordlist

Human stuff
Glosses Word Proto-Form Source languages Notes
language, tongue xel *kele Proto-Uralic *käle, Mongolian xel < kele < *kelen cf. Proto-Turkic *Tɨl
Animals
Glosses Word Proto-Form Source languages Notes
camel tem, tev *teme Mongolian temee < *temixen < Turkic *deb- also tev, teve, teme?
horse mor *mori Mongolian mor' < *morin, PIE *márḱos, CN mǎ, JP uma, Ko. mal also mar, maa?
Nature
Glosses Word Proto-Form Source languages Notes
cold kar / kal *kara, kal Turkic *kar, Mongolian *karig "cold, PIE *gel-
earth, ground yar (yer) *yar (*yere) Turkish yer, TochB yare (gravel), PIE *h₁er- alt. mud, cf. P.Uralic muďa, Medieval Germanic modde/mudde/mud