Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions

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*Inanimate: The countable inanimate nouns have all three numbers. Some inanimate nouns are mass nouns, and thus only have a generic number and a singulative number.

*Abstract: Singulative and plurative abstract nouns denote specific instantiations or manifestations of the abstract concept. (So ''moigī́d'' 'kindness' in the collective could be rendered as 'an act of kindness' in the singulative (indefinite) ''moigī́a''.)

*Honorific: Honorific nouns arose from abstract nouns "made countable", i.e. abstract nouns in singulative and plurative forms, and their morphology generalized to the collective distinction. Respected/titled persons and gods are honorific, as well as nouns derived with ~~the~~ suffixes such as ''-iṓr'' (augmentative).

*Honorific: Honorific nouns arose from abstract nouns "made countable", i.e. abstract nouns in singulative and plurative forms, and their morphology generalized to the collective distinction. Respected/titled persons and gods are honorific, as well as nouns derived with suffixes such as ''-iṓr'' (augmentative).

{{PAGENAME}} also makes a state distinction in third person possessed forms, namely between the ''absolute'' possessed form, which indicates a noun possessed by a pronoun, and the ''conjunct'' possessed form, used to indicate a possessive relationship between two nouns and agreeing with the gender of the possessor. This distinction is marked with tone changes or zero.

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 *Inanimate: The countable inanimate nouns have all three numbers. Some inanimate nouns are mass nouns, and thus only have a generic number and a singulative number.
 *Abstract: Singulative and plurative abstract nouns denote specific instantiations or manifestations of the abstract concept. (So ''moigī́d'' 'kindness' in the collective could be rendered as 'an act of kindness' in the singulative (indefinite) ''moigī́a''.)
-*Honorific: Honorific nouns arose from abstract nouns "made countable", i.e. abstract nouns in singulative and plurative forms, and their morphology generalized to the collective distinction. Respected/titled persons and gods are honorific, as well as nouns derived with the suffixes such as ''-iṓr'' (augmentative).
+*Honorific: Honorific nouns arose from abstract nouns "made countable", i.e. abstract nouns in singulative and plurative forms, and their morphology generalized to the collective distinction. Respected/titled persons and gods are honorific, as well as nouns derived with suffixes such as ''-iṓr'' (augmentative).
 {{PAGENAME}} also makes a state distinction in third person possessed forms, namely between the ''absolute'' possessed form, which indicates a noun possessed by a pronoun, and the ''conjunct'' possessed form, used to indicate a possessive relationship between two nouns and agreeing with the gender of the possessor. This distinction is marked with tone changes or zero.