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Some of these derived adjectives and adverbs have meanings that don't directly correspond to the word they are derived from; in most cases this is due to homophony in ancestral Wascotl words after dropping of the adjective suffix ''*-(c)osc'' or regular merging with forms ending in ''*-(o)tl'' (''*-osc'' and ''*-otl'' both becoming ''-ux''), for example ''toc'' "knife" or "sharp" from Wascotl ''*tequ-'' and ''*tequ-osc'' respectively. | Some of these derived adjectives and adverbs have meanings that don't directly correspond to the word they are derived from; in most cases this is due to homophony in ancestral Wascotl words after dropping of the adjective suffix ''*-(c)osc'' or regular merging with forms ending in ''*-(o)tl'' (''*-osc'' and ''*-otl'' both becoming ''-ux''), for example ''toc'' "knife" or "sharp" from Wascotl ''*tequ-'' and ''*tequ-osc'' respectively. | ||
===Postpositions=== | |||
Soc'ul' has a limited set of general postpositions: locative ''eý'', lative ''je'', proximal/comitative ''ne'', ablative ''xenuz'', and distal/ablative/abessive ''xen'e''. | |||
More specific adpositions, when needed, are formed with ''{location} ... {postposition}'' constructions (for example ''m'e ... eý'' "on" from ''m'e'' "top"). | |||
=== Derivational morphology === | === Derivational morphology === | ||