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====Serial verbs==== | ====Serial verbs==== | ||
==Derivational morphology== | |||
Some suffixes are pronounced differently depending on the final consonant of the root. | |||
*''be-'': intensive/applicative/denominal verb prefix (''ge-'' before labials) | |||
**'''''be'''rasten'' 'make powerful, strengthen' < ''Rast'' 'power' | |||
**'''''ge'''beulen'' 'justify, straighten' < ''beul'' 'just' | |||
*''<sup>U</sup>-e'': abstract noun, -ness/-hood | |||
*''<sup>U</sup>-el'': nominalization, adjectivalization | |||
*''-eln'': a frequentative affix | |||
*''ent-'' (sometimes ''emp-'' before ''f''): perfective; causative/valency-incrementing | |||
*''-er'': collective, augmentative, place noun, resultative | |||
**''Pfug'''er''''' 'throne' < ''Pfug'' 'chair' | |||
**''Rug'''er''''' 'statue' < ''rug, rieg, Rugs'' 'carve' | |||
**''Jeng'''er''''' 'ocean, sea' < ''Jeng'' 'water' | |||
*''-ern'': an intensifying verbal suffix | |||
*''-igen'': an intensifying verbal suffix | |||
*''-in'': patientive? | |||
*''ge-'': an adjectivizer | |||
*''ge-'': a collective | |||
*''miss-'': negative | |||
**'''''miss'''beul'' 'not straight, unjust' < ''beul'' 'straight, just'; '''''Miss'''verbeul'' - ''injustice'' | |||
*''-ke'': a nominalizer | |||
*''-lein'' agent noun, someone associated with [NOUN] | |||
**''Wink'''lein''''' 'mortal' < ''wink-'' 'die' + ''-lein'' | |||
*''-nung, -ung'': singulative/diminutive | |||
*''-s'' (~ Thm. infinitve ''-s''): verbal nouns, nominalization | |||
*''-t'': adjectivalizer | |||
*''-ung'': singulative, patient noun; past participle | |||
*''ur-'': augmentative | |||
**'''''Ur'''ahn, '''Ur'''mahl'' 'grandfather, grandmother' < ''Ann, Mahl'' 'father, mother' | |||
*''ver-'': a nominalizer | |||
*''zer-'': passive | |||
*''zu-'' (stressed): collective? | |||
==Phrasebook== | ==Phrasebook== | ||