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| ===== Derivational Affixes ===== | | ===== Derivational Affixes ===== |
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| 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 Proto-Nahenic noun incorporation, based on comparisons with Nankôre's distant relatives, Minhast and Nahónda; similar or even identical fossilized affixes have been found in these languages that likewise attach to nominal roots for body parts to derive verbs, e.g. Minhast ''kirim'' (from ''k-erum'', literally "make sound with the mouth) and Nahónda ''k'loma'' (from ''k'-loma''); ''kirim'' is the Minhast cognate of Nankôre ''kôre''.
| | -no: Diminutive suffix, e.g. ''kurash'' (woman), ''kurashno'' (girl) |
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| ! Prefix
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| ! Sample Noun
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| ! Example
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| ! Meaning
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| ! Nahenic Cognates
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| ! Sound
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| | k-
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| | ore "mouth"
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| | k-ore
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| | to speak
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| | Common Minhast ''k-irim'' "to speak" (NB: Nankôre ''ore'' = "mouth" is cognate with Minhast ''eru'' = "mouth")
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| ! Striking
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| | ya-
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| | shipa "hand"
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| | ya-shpa
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| | to punch
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| | Minhast, Horse Speaker dialect: ''wi-šnu'' "to strike, hit" (Minhast ''išna'' "fist", "knuckles")
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| ! Movement
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| | ha-
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| | nake "foot"
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| | ha-nake
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| | to scoot along the floor with one's foot; to kick around
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| | Nahónda: ''ho-sispa'' "to give" ''sisp'' = hand; c.f. Minhast ''sespir'' = hand, Nankôre ''shipa'' = hand
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| ! Stability
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| | pa-
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| | are "eye"
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| | p-are
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| | to stare
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| | Common Minhast p-uħta "to stand up" (from ''yuħta'' = "sole of the foot", cognate with Nankôre ''yohíhita'' = "flat surface")
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| ===== Pronouns ===== | | ===== Pronouns ===== |