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The {{PAGENAME}} language features a very robust derivational system enabling the transformation of nouns to verbs and back again (shifting syntactic category), the diminution of nouns, verbs and adverbs are all possible and likewise so with augmentation. | The {{PAGENAME}} language features a very robust derivational system enabling the transformation of nouns to verbs and back again (shifting syntactic category), the diminution of nouns, verbs and adverbs are all possible and likewise so with augmentation. | ||
====Diminutives | ====Diminutives==== | ||
Diminutives are handled for animate words with the suffix ''ak''. For naturally inanimate nouns this becomes ''ek''. | Diminutives are handled for animate words with the suffix ''ak''. For naturally inanimate nouns this becomes ''ek''. | ||
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*pet-qĭ-ṇ -> petĭqṇ > petĭken > petaken | *pet-qĭ-ṇ -> petĭqṇ > petĭken > petaken | ||
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====Augmentatives==== | |||
AUG with -ár for all animate, -ór for inanimate. | |||
====Collective nouns==== | ====Collective nouns==== | ||
Elasian features ways to form a collective noun; this is extensively used for concepts such as a puddle (of water), days, groups of animal and such. These may in turn be interpreted as singulars and given regular plurals of their own. A commonly encountered example is the word ''ter'' ('a moment') from which the Elasian word for "day", ''teret'' is derived. It can be broken down into ''ter'' and the inanimate collectivising morpheme ''-et'' ('a group of moments, a day'). | Elasian features ways to form a collective noun; this is extensively used for concepts such as a puddle (of water), days, groups of animal and such. These may in turn be interpreted as singulars and given regular plurals of their own. A commonly encountered example is the word ''ter'' ('a moment') from which the Elasian word for "day", ''teret'' is derived. It can be broken down into ''ter'' and the inanimate collectivising morpheme ''-et'' ('a group of moments, a day'). | ||