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| ==Morphology== | | ==Morphology== |
| Eivo has no grammatical gender and no grammatical mutation. Eivo is also more agglutinative than its close relatives. | | Eivo has no grammatical gender and no mutation. |
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| ===Nouns===
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| The definite article is ''-me'' for nouns ending in a V or a resonant and ''-ime'' otherwise. It's placed after the plural suffix: ''duuvooŋ'' 'a teacher', ''duuvooŋme'' 'the teacher', ''duuvooŋa'' 'teachers', ''duuvooŋame'' 'the teachers'.
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| Historically feminine nouns undergo lenition: ''xuuþ'' 'an animal', ''xuuþime'' 'the animal'.
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| The plural is marked as follows:
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| *''-a/-ä'' for nouns ending in a C
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| *''-n'' for nouns ending in a V
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| Eivo has innovated new possessive suffixes, unlike Tíogall or Bhadhagha: ''skänänä, skäner, skänyy (his), skänii (her), skänäk (its), skänäy, skänäner, skänäd, skänäär''
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| In the plural, these suffixes are: ''skänäränä, skänärer, skänäryy, skänärii, skänäräk, skänäräy, skänäräner, skänäräd, skänäräär'' (if the plural uses ''n'', the ''n'' is changed to ''r'').
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| For "of (a noun)", the ''ezâfe'' construction is used, with the word ''ri'' (''rin'' before V) between the nouns: ''xaunskänme-ri-Leemi'' = 'Leemi's girlfriend'.
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| My girlfriend = ''xaunskänme-ri-naa'' or ''xaunskänänä''
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| My tall girlfriend = ''xaunskänme-rin-aarde-ri-naa''
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| ===Pronouns=== | | ===Pronouns=== |
| *''naw'' = I | | *''naw'' = I |