Nankôre: Difference between revisions
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===== Derivational Affixes ===== | ===== Derivational Affixes ===== | ||
Nankôre has a set of verbalizing prefixes that when attached to nominal roots, often body parts, create verbs. | Nankôre has a set of verbalizing prefixes that when attached to nominal roots, often body parts, create verbs. These prefixes are most likely the remnants of noun incorporation, based on comparisons with Nankôre's distant relatives, Minhast and Nahónda, which have similar fossilized affixes that are also usually attached to nominal roots concerning body parts, to derive verbs, e.g. Minhast ''kirim'' (from ''k-erum'', literally "make sound with the mouth); ''kirim'' is the Minhast cognate of ''kôre''. | ||