Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions
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*Animate: Many animate nouns have all three numbers. Animate nouns include not only humans or animals, but also many body parts, some plants, more "active" natural processes such as rain and storms, and heavenly bodies. | *Animate: Many animate nouns have all three numbers. Animate nouns include not only humans or animals, but also many body parts, some plants, more "active" natural processes such as rain and storms, and heavenly bodies. | ||
*Inanimate: The countable inanimate nouns have all three numbers. Some inanimate nouns are mass nouns, and thus only have a generic number and a singulative number. | *Inanimate: The countable inanimate nouns have all three numbers. Some inanimate nouns are mass nouns, and thus only have a generic number and a singulative number. | ||
*Abstract: Singulative and plurative abstract nouns denote specific instantiations or manifestations of the abstract concept. (So | *Abstract: Singulative and plurative abstract nouns denote specific instantiations or manifestations of the abstract concept. (So ''moigī́d'' 'kindness' in the collective could be rendered as 'an act of kindness' in the singulative (indefinite) ''moigī́a''.) | ||
*Honorific: Honorific nouns are essentially abstract nouns made countable, i.e. abstract nouns in singulative and plurative forms, and their morphology generalized to the collective distinction. Respected persons and gods are honorific. | *Honorific: Honorific nouns are essentially abstract nouns made countable, i.e. abstract nouns in singulative and plurative forms, and their morphology generalized to the collective distinction. Respected persons and gods are honorific. | ||