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 ===Roots and principal parts===
-Nominal/verbal roots in Rówok are overwhelmingly triglyphs, with /a/ being the only vowel that can occur either initially in a root, or medially.
-All roots have an underlying "theme vowel" for lack of a better term in my attempt at vowel harmony, either /a/ or /o/, which shift to /e/ and /u/ in perfect verbal stems and many nouns derived from verbal stems. Additionally words with /w/ in any position have some stems where /w/ is reduced to [u]. The rules are simple for the majority of stems, and are as follows:
-:If /a/ appears in the root (by law only initially or medially), the theme vowel is automatically /a/. If the root is tri-consonantal and does not contain /w/, the theme vowel is also /a/. As a note, roots with medial /a/ are almost exclusively (specific) plants, and thus lack verbal roots, and thus have only two principal parts: nom/erg/voc, and oblique.
+Dictionary entries are listed with principal parts in the following order:
-:If /w/ appears medially or finally in a root, the theme vowel is /o/.
+*'''lemma''' - definition; '''finite verbal stem'''-, '''participial stem''' (de facto the nom/erg singular imperfect active participle), '''vocative stem'''+, '''ergative/nominative form''', '''oblique stem'''-, '''adverbial form'''
-Exceptions:
-*There are some rare, quad-consonantal roots. These are always of the the form C*XCC, where C* can only be /b/, /p/, /d/, /t/, /g/, /k/, /z/ and /s/, and X can be /w/, /l/, or /r/; ones with /w/ have /o/ as the theme vowel, and those with /l/ or /r/ have /a/.
-*Roots with initial /w/ are very old stems and anything goes as far as theme vowels; this is the only word type whose vowel structure isn’t deducible from the form of the root and just need to be learned.
-====Principal parts====
-Principal parts; roots are listed in order of:
-'''lemma''' - definition; '''finite verbal stem'''-, '''participial stem''' (de facto the nom/erg singular imperfect active participle), '''vocative stem'''+, '''ergative/nominative form''', '''oblique stem'''-, '''adverbial form'''
 :+The similative and partitive cases are also based on the vocative stem, as well as adjectives.
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 ====Telic====
 ====Locatives====
-'''balášpi áytawon'''
+The ending for the locative is '''-bi''', but, like  the [[#Instrumental/comitative|instrumental]], the locative features a semantic allophonic variant. Namely the unvoiced version '''-pi''' carries the basic semantic of '''on''' or '''at''', while the voiced variant '''-bi''' has the semantic '''in''' or '''between'''. The meanings, when needed, are complimented by certain [[#Postpositions|postpositions]].
-snow.on run.impf.3p.pl
+Examples:
+:root '''bls''', "snow":
+balá'''špi''' áytawon
+snow.'''on''' run.impf.3.pl
 they are running on/along the snow
-'''balážbi áldawon'''
-snow.in play.impf.3p.pl
+balá'''žbi''' áldawon
+snow.'''in''' play.impf.3.pl
 they are playing in the snow
 With other phonemes at the end, for instance:
-'''mwokínpi hárabin'''
+:root '''mwk''', "dog", => plural: '''mowokín'''
+mwokí'''npi''' sarabín
-dog.pl.on fleas
+dog.pl.'''on''' fleas
 (literally there are fleas on dogs, idiomatically dogs have fleas)
-'''mwokímbi kórowin'''
+mwokí'''mbi''' kórowin
-dog.pl.on worms
+dog.pl.'''on''' worms
 (literally there are worms in dogs, idiomatically, dogs have worms)
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 ====Similative====
+===Adjectives===
+===Verbs===
 ===Derivational morphology===