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===Trisyllabics=== | ===Trisyllabics=== | ||
The majority of words in Letaale consist of three syllables and are thus called ''trisyllabics''. Each trisyllabic consists of two ''triphonemic'' roots | 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), for example '''m_g_v_''' "banana", and | |||
# a '''verb root''', which consists of three vowels (trivocalic), counting the long vowels and the diphthong /ai/ as one vowel each, for example '''_i_u_ai''' "be a banana". | |||
Because all trisyllabics contain a subject and a verb, each one constitutes an entire clause in its own right. | |||
Lemmas (citation forms) of trisyllabics consist of a noun root together with 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''', '''kuu''', and '''vai'''. 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. | Lemmas (citation forms) of trisyllabics consist of a noun root together with 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''', '''kuu''', and '''vai'''. 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. | ||