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 ===Word structure===
-[[#Roots and principal parts|Roots]] in Rówok are overwhelmingly triglyphs, with /a/ being the only vowel that can occur either initially in a root, or medially.
+[[#Roots and principal parts|Roots]] in Rówok are predominantly triliteral and quadriliteral, with /a/ being the only vowel that can occur either initially in a root, or medially.
-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. Additionally words with /w/ in any position have some stems where /w/ is reduced to [u]. The rules are simple for the majority of stems, and are as follows:
-:If /a/ appears in the root (by law only initially or medially), the theme vowel is automatically /a/. If the root is tri-consonantal and does not contain /w/, the theme vowel is also /a/. As a note, roots with medial /a/ are almost exclusively (specific) plants, and thus lack verbal roots, and thus have only two principal parts: nom/erg/voc, and oblique.
+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.
-:If /w/ appears medially or finally in a root, the theme vowel is /o/.
+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]. *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.
-Exceptions:
+The rules are simple for the majority of other stems, and are as follows:
-*There are some rare, quad-consonantal roots. These are always of the the form C*XCC, where C* can only be /b/, /p/, /d/, /t/, /g/, /k/, /z/ and /s/, and X can be /w/, /l/, or /r/; ones with /w/ have /o/ as the theme vowel, and those with /l/ or /r/ have /a/.
-*Roots with initial /w/ are very old stems and 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.
+====Triliteral roots====
+#If /a/ appears in the root (by law only initially or medially), the theme vowel is automatically /a/.
+#If the root is tri-consonantal and does not contain /w/, the theme vowel is also /a/.
+##As a note, roots with medial /a/ are almost exclusively (specific) plants, and thus lack verbal roots, and thus have only two principal parts: nom/erg/voc, and oblique.
+#If /w/ appears medially or finally in a root, the theme vowel is /o/.
+====Quadriliteral roots====
+Quadriliteral roots are always consonantal take 4 forms. In the examples below the parentheses indicate that the group remains a cluster in extended stems:
+#(C*X)CC, where C* can only be /b/, /p/, /d/, /t/, /g/, /k/, /z/ and /s/, and X can be /r/, /l/, or /w/
+#C(XC)C, where X can be /r/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /y/, or /w/
+#C(CX)C, where X can be /r/, /l/, /y/, or /w/
+#CC(XC*), where C* can only be /b/, /p/, /d/, /t/, /g/, /k/, /z/ and /s/, and X can be /r/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /y/, or /w/
+:1)
+:2)
+:3) '''ndry-''', "fox, to be clever/outfox", '''nadry-, nádray, andráya, nadráya, andry-, nadryá'''
+:4)
 ====Phonotactics====