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The majority of words in Letaale consist of three syllables and are thus called ''trisyllabics''. Each trisyllabic consists of two ''triphonemic'' roots, a noun root (or subject root), which consists of three consonants (triconsonantal), and a verb root, which consists of three vowels (trivocalic), counting the long vowels and the diphthong /ai/ as one vowel each. Containing both subject and verb, each trisyllabic constitutes an entire clause in its own right. | The majority of words in Letaale consist of three syllables and are thus called ''trisyllabics''. Each trisyllabic consists of two ''triphonemic'' roots, a noun root (or subject root), which consists of three consonants (triconsonantal), and a verb root, which consists of three vowels (trivocalic), counting the long vowels and the diphthong /ai/ as one vowel each. Containing both subject and verb, each trisyllabic constitutes an entire clause in its own right. | ||
Lemmas (citation forms) of trisyllabics consist of a noun root and its equivalent verb root. These are related by the one-to-one correspondence of consonants to ''[[Letaale# | Lemmas (citation forms) of trisyllabics consist of a noun root and its equivalent verb root. These are related by the one-to-one correspondence of consonants to ''[[Letaale#Morphophonology|primary vowels]]'', meaning that lemmas consist only of the syllables ''na'', ''taa'', ''le'', ''xee'', ''mi'', ''hii'', ''jo'', ''soo'', ''gu'' and ''kuu''. Like all trisyllabics, lemmas make up a valid clause on their own, however, the relationship between noun forms and verb forms is consistent to the the point that trisyllabic lemmas are always, by definition, self-evidently true sentences of the structure "the X is an X" (or "that which X-es X-es"), and therefore mostly rather void of pragmatic purpose. Here are some examples of trisyllabic roots in their lemma forms. | ||