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| *''gruað'' means "devoid of, lacking" | | *''gruað'' means "devoid of, lacking" |
| *''segað'' means "free of" | | *''segað'' means "free of" |
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| ===Derivational morphology===
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| Native noun-noun compounds are head-final; however, head-initial "noun noun" juxtaposition is preferred. "Noun verb" juxtaposition is also common.
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| The table below lists selected derivational suffixes.
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| | ''-wñ'' (agentive)<br/>''-os'' (instrument)<br/>''-id'' (diminutive)<br/>''-óm'' (augmentative; Tseer)<br/>''-emb'' (female suffix)<br/>''ni-'' (non-)<br/>''ir-'' (un-)<br/>''bah-'' (sub-)<br/>''ñal-'' 'before'<br/>''tynd-'' 'after'<br/>''-arn'' (collective)
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| | ''-ah'' (verbal noun)<br/>''-ev'' (verbal noun)<br/>''-wñ'' (agentive)<br/>''-os'' (instrument)
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| | ''-vih'' (abstract noun)<br/>''hal-''(abstract noun)<br/>''-u'' (abstract noun)<br/>''-igi'' (one characterized by X)
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| | ''so-'' (verbing nouns)
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| | ''ar-'' (applicative)<br/>''as-'' (telic)<br/>''dy-'' (in)<br/>''ee-'' (co-, with)<br/>''fra-'' or ''fr-'' (causative)<br/>''fw-'' (back, re-)<br/>''gol-'' (up)<br/>''oc-'' (from, out)<br/>''ro-'' (down)<br/>''so-'' (towards)<br/>''sen-'' (well)<br/>''mi-'' (mis-)<br/>''go-'' (de-, dis-)
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| | ''-ahd''<br/>''-on''<br/>''-ib''<br/>''-ín'' (Netagin)<br/>''-ol'' (Clofabic)<br/>''-flen''
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| | ''-i''<br/>''-in'' (-ee)<br/>''-go,'' (-able, but ergative)
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| | ''di-'' (non-)<br/>''er-'' (un-)
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| ====Nouns====
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| *''-i'' is a frozen diminutive suffix.
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| *''-ið'' is a diminutive suffix but is often used discursively, somewhat like "a nice X".
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| *''-ló'' is a Windermere augmentative suffix.
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| *''-wr'' is a native Talmic augmentative suffix.
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| *''mi-'' is used in some nouns where it is a prefix meaning 'bad', 'mis-' or sometimes 'pseudo-'.
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| *''hylłiar-'' is a prefix meaning 'study of X'. Stress falls on the word which the prefix attaches to.
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| **''hylłiarclíam'' means 'number theory'.
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| *''-óm'' is a noun suffix of unclear meaning, historically an augmentative.
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| *''-wñ'' is a suffix meaning "a person associated with [noun] or who does [verb]" (unknown origin).
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| **''birítswñ'' means 'speaker (a person who speaks)', from ''biríts'' 'to speak; speech'.
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| **''trovihwñ'' means 'vegetarian' (from ''trovih'' 'vegetarianism').
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| **''sbwiþwñ'' means '<i>sbwiþ</i> player'. (A ''sbwiþ'' is a plucked string instrument with 18-22 sympathetic strings.)
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| *''nw-'' is a Windermere agentive suffix.
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| *''-u'' (collective) is a common native affix used to form abstract nouns.
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| *''-lan'' is another abstract noun suffix.
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| *''-ad'' is a common noun suffix, from Thensarian ''-sdos''.
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| *''peñ-'' = 'X-to-be'; from Windermere future tense particle ''peng''
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| ====Phrasal nouns====
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| Skellan also has phrasal nouns: these are noun-preposition combinations that are stressed on the preposition.
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| *beð ry (part of) = component
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| *hmawg dy (word at) = subject of the conversation
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| *hmawg lly (word for) = support, endorsememt
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| ====Verbs====
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| Old Skellan prefixes remain productive in Modern Skellan.
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| *''fr(a)-'' (usually pronounced /frə-/) was formerly only found in some frozen "causative" verbs but is gaining productivity in modern Skellan.
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| *''mi-'' is an affix similar to 'mis-, mal-' in English, also sometimes 'pseudo-'.
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| *''ru-'' is a Clofabic affix meaning 'too much, over-'.
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| ====Phrasal verbs====
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| Skellan has phrasal verbs like English does.
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| ====Adjectives====
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| *''-mell'' = '-ful', '-some' (lit. 'rich')
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| *''er-'' is a negating suffix of Talmic origin; it is most commonly used with Talmic adjectives.
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| *''-flen'' /-fʟɛn/ is an adjectival suffix with the same meaning as Korean ''-tapta'' and Japanese ''-rashii'': it means 'like an X is supposed to be' or 'like a typical X'. The suffix comes from Old Skellan compound adjectives of the form ''X-fheileán'' (from ''feil'' 'name' + ''-án'' adjectivizer; i.e. 'like the name X' or 'worthy of the name X'). Some words with the suffix have undergone semantic shifts, e.g. carflen /ˈkʰarfʟɛn/ 'humane, moral, ethical' (from Old Skellan car "human" + -flen).
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| *''-jon'' is similar to '-able', but it is ergative in that it can also be used for "able to [intransitive verb]". ex. ''feñgjon'' 'mortal, human (flowery)' < ''feñg'' 'die'.
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| *''jy-'' (''jyn-'' before C) is a [[Windermere]] adjectival suffix.
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| *''-ol'' /-ɔ̃/ is an adjectival suffix of Talmic origin.
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| *''-on'' is a Talmic adjectival suffix, from Old Skellan -án (itself from Thensarian ''-aħnam'', Proto-Talmic ''*-aʁnəm'').
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| *''-vað'' '-like' is another Talmic adjectival suffix.
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| *''-wd'' = from Tigol ''-óid''
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| *''-wid'' = from Tigol ''-óid'' via Windermere ''-oyd''
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| *''mee-'' = multi-
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| *''do-'' = uni-, mono-
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| ==Syntax== | | ==Syntax== |