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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
Aethêllan is an SVO fusional-agglutinative language. The majority of information is placed on the nouns and verbs, and though it is an SVO language technically speaking it does allow for free word order. | Aethêllan is an SVO fusional-agglutinative language. The majority of information is placed on the nouns and verbs, and though it is an SVO language technically speaking it does allow for free word order. | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
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|'''aɪ''' | |'''aɪ''' | ||
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==Vowels== | ==Vowels== | ||
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===Cases=== | ===Cases=== | ||
{| {{style|center}} | {| {{style|center}} | ||
| colspan="2" |'''Cases''' | | colspan="2" |'''Cases''' | ||
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|''Equative''<br />Comparison | |''Equative''<br />Comparison | ||
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===Case and Class Patradigms=== | ===Case and Class Patradigms=== | ||
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*'''NB''' ''Theyn'' is a weak verb due it to have a short diphthong, thus the first vowel of the diphthong is lengthened. This happens for all nouns with short diphthongs. | *'''NB''' ''Theyn'' is a weak verb due it to have a short diphthong, thus the first vowel of the diphthong is lengthened. This happens for all nouns with short diphthongs. | ||
*'''NB''' The very slight difference here between the Dat. and Part. forms of ''Theyn'' are due to ''Theyn'' itself. I.E ''Theyn'' dropping its ''n'' in the Dat. form - this is irregular and only occurs only with Feminine Noun Stems ending in ''n'' | *'''NB''' The very slight difference here between the Dat. and Part. forms of ''Theyn'' are due to ''Theyn'' itself. I.E ''Theyn'' dropping its ''n'' in the Dat. form - this is irregular and only occurs only with Feminine Noun Stems ending in ''n'' | ||
====II Non-Human Noun Class==== | ====II Non-Human Noun Class==== | ||
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|Mâr'''ô''' | |Mâr'''ô''' | ||
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==Personal Pronouns== | ==Personal Pronouns== | ||
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| colspan="2" |Neth (by Them) | | colspan="2" |Neth (by Them) | ||
| colspan="2" |Falth (by Its) | | colspan="2" |Falth (by Its) | ||
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==Derivation== | |||
All the following are Prefixes which remove the first vowel (if applicable, i.e is simply added if the word begins with a consonant). | |||
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!'''Derivation Pattern''' | |||
!'''Affix & Example''' | |||
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|Adjective --> Adverb | |||
|'''-'''<br />Quick > Quickly | |||
|- | |||
|Adjective --> Noun | |||
|'''-'''<br />Happy > Happiness | |||
|- | |||
|Noun --> Verb | |||
|'''-'''<br />Glory > Glorify | |||
|- | |||
|Noun --> Adjective | |||
|'''-'''<br />Recreation > Recreational | |||
|- | |||
|Adjectives --> Transitive Verbs | |||
|'''-'''<br />Rich > Enrich | |||
|- | |||
|Nouns --> Transitive Verbs | |||
|'''-'''<br />Rapture > Enrapture | |||
|- | |||
|Transitive Verbs --> Intransitive Verbs (Antipassive Voice)<br />Agent/Experience and Patient/Focus swap places | |||
|'''Ablaut'''<br />E.g.to hit > to be hit by<br />to like > to be pleasing to | |||
|- | |||
|Intransitive Verbs --> Transitive Verbs<br />Increase transitivity, turn impersonal verb into agent-intransitive,<br />Intransitive verb into transitive, transitive into ditransitive | |||
|'''Ablaut'''<br />to rain > to water (plants, etc.)<br />to have > to give | |||
|- | |||
|Inchoative/Inceptive Verb | |||
|''See Inceptive Aspect'' | |||
|- | |||
|Catenative Verb | |||
|'''-''' | |||
|- | |||
|Opposite (Quality) | |||
|'''-'''<br />Happy > sad, clear > vague | |||
|- | |||
|opposite (reverse action)<br />Agent and patient remain the same, action of the verb changes | |||
|'''-'''<br />Earn <==> spend, borrow <==> repay | |||
|- | |||
|Motion Purpose<br />Go somewhere in order to do VERB | |||
|'''-'''<br />to buy > to go shopping | |||
|- | |||
|Nominal Participle<br />Person who is doing VERB at the current moment<br />(Also inflects for tense) | |||
|'''-'''<br />Run > runner | |||
|- | |||
|Person who does verb habitually | |||
|'''-'''<br />Write > writer | |||
|- | |||
|Place where VERB is typically done | |||
|'''-'''<br />to cook > kitchen, to sleep > bedroom | |||
|- | |||
|Place with lots of NOUN | |||
|'''-'''<br />Book > library, tree > forest | |||
|- | |||
|Tool or substance used for doing VERB | |||
|'''-'''<br />to write > writing implement, to wash > soap | |||
|- | |||
|ADJ = made of NOUN | |||
|'''-'''<br />Gold > golden, wood > wooden | |||
|- | |||
|ADJ = having lot of/ some of NOUN | |||
|'''-'''<br />Money > rich, trash > messy | |||
|- | |||
|ADJ = lacking/sparsity of NOUN | |||
|'''-'''<br />Tooth > toothless, money > poor | |||
|- | |||
|Augmentation | |||
|'''-'''<br />House > mansion, cat > lion | |||
|- | |||
|Pejoration | |||
|'''-'''<br />Man > scoundrel, child > brat | |||
|- | |||
|ADJ = tending to often do VERB/be ADJ | |||
|'''-'''<br />think > thoughtful, forget > forgetful | |||
|- | |||
|VERB = to use NOUN in a typical way | |||
|'''-'''<br />Lips > kiss, Hammer > to hammer | |||
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