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All roots have an underlying "theme vowel" for lack of a better term in the author's attempt at [[#Vowel harmony|vowel harmony]], either /a/ or /o/, which shift to /e/ and /u/ in perfect verbal stems and many nouns derived from verbal stems. | All roots have an underlying "theme vowel" for lack of a better term in the author's attempt at [[#Vowel harmony|vowel harmony]], either /a/ or /o/, which shift to /e/ and /u/ in perfect verbal stems and many nouns derived from verbal stems. | ||
Words with /w/ in any position have some stems where /w/ is reduced to [u]. Roots with /y/ in any position also have some stems that are realized as [i]. | Words with /w/ in any non-initial position have some stems where /w/ is reduced to [u]. Roots with /y/ in any non-final position also have some stems that are realized as [i]. Nota bene: roots with initial /w/ are 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. | ||
The rules are simple for the majority of other stems, and are as follows: | The rules are simple for the majority of other stems, and are as follows: | ||
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# '''ndry-''', "fox, to be clever/outfox", '''nadry-, nádray, andráya, nadráya, andry-, nadryá''' | # '''ndry-''', "fox, to be clever/outfox", '''nadry-, nádray, andráya, nadráya, andry-, nadryá''' | ||
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Type 1 and 3, like in triliteral roots, easily reveal their theme vowel, while types 2 and 4 have some o-themed stems that do not have /w/ in them, mostly in roots where X is /n/ or /m/. | |||
====Phonotactics==== | ====Phonotactics==== |