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* ''lgut'' (to buy) → ''lgotanah'' (shopping) | * ''lgut'' (to buy) → ''lgotanah'' (shopping) | ||
'''- | '''-na''' ('''-ra''' after ''t'' or ''d''; '''-iyāna''' after ''Cy'', '''-uvāna''' after ''Cv'') with lengthening denotes a quality.<br/> | ||
* ''māl'' (to keep together) → '' | * ''māl'' (to keep together) → ''mālna'' (union)<br/> | ||
* ''hælvē'' (fruit) → '' | * ''hælvē'' (fruit) → ''šaulviyāna'' (fertility) (morphemically //hyaulviyāna//)<br/> | ||
* ''blut'' (to clean) → '' | * ''åbdv'' (to swell, blow up) → ''åbduvāna'' (swollenness, bloatiness) | ||
* Lengthening is absent if the word is derived from an ''-aus-'' adjectival verb (e.g. '' | * ''blut'' (to clean) → ''blūtra'' (cleanliness) | ||
* Inverse-ablaut roots have the reduced vowel as a prefix, much like in causative verbs (e.g. ''vald'' (to (be) open) → '' | * Lengthening is absent if the word is derived from an ''-aus-'' adjectival verb (e.g. ''chlærausna'' ((to be) easy) → ''chlærausyāva'' (easiness)) and in a few exceptions. | ||
* Inverse-ablaut roots have the reduced vowel as a prefix, much like in causative verbs (e.g. ''vald'' (to (be) open) → ''uvaldra'' (opening, state of being open)). | |||
'''-išam''' has the same meaning as ''- | '''-išam''' has the same meaning as ''-na'', but it's rarer.<br/> | ||
* ''yųlniltas'' (edible) → ''yųlniltešam'' (edibility) | * ''yųlniltas'' (edible) → ''yųlniltešam'' (edibility) | ||
* ''yālv'' (to be sweet (taste)) → ''yālvišam'' (sweetness) | * ''yālv'' (to be sweet (taste)) → ''yālvišam'' (sweetness) | ||
* ''ñailūh'' (ice) → ''ñailūvišam'' (coldness) | * ''ñailūh'' (ice) → ''ñailūvišam'' (coldness) | ||
* ''nevy'' (to model, to give a form) → ''nevīšam'' (plastic) (This word underwent a meaning shift from "modellability" to a common material with that quality, replacing the derived form ''nevīšandhūs'' previously used. "Modellability" is '' | * ''nevy'' (to model, to give a form) → ''nevīšam'' (plastic) (This word underwent a meaning shift from "modellability" to a common material with that quality, replacing the derived form ''nevīšandhūs'' previously used. "Modellability" is ''nyaviyāna'' in contemporary Chlouvānem.) | ||
'''-āmita''' (''-yāmita'' when used with nouns with thematic ''e'' or ''i''), often with high-grade ablaut, is another suffix forming quality nouns, but it is often more abstract, being translatable with suffixes like English ''-ism''.<br/> | '''-āmita''' (''-yāmita'' when used with nouns with thematic ''e'' or ''i''), often with high-grade ablaut, is another suffix forming quality nouns, but it is often more abstract, being translatable with suffixes like English ''-ism''.<br/> | ||