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====Personal pronouns==== | ====Personal pronouns==== | ||
====Derivational morphology==== | ====Derivational morphology==== | ||
=====Augmentatives and diminutives===== | |||
Nominal augmentatives are formed with the infix ''-nV-'', where V stands for a short echo vowel. Generally, it is spliced in before the last syllable, as in the following examples. | |||
:''êbuyâkhrô'' (‘fortress’) and ''êbuyâ'''na'''khrô'' (‘castle’, ‘great fortress’) | |||
: ''arûza'' (‘mound’) and ''arû'''nu'''za'' (‘hill’). | |||
Nominal diminutives are formed by suffixing ''-mô''. Occasionally the stem is clipped, as in the second example. | |||
:''têph'' (‘drop’) and ''têph'''mô''''' (‘droplet’), as found in the flower name ''ašitêphmô'' (‘snowdroplet’). | |||
:''efâyamri'' (‘sea voyage’) and ''efâya'''mô''''' (‘short naval excursion’) | |||
===Syntax=== | ===Syntax=== | ||