Re: Bantoid conlang - morphology

In a message dated 2004:02:24 02:40:05 AM, carrajena@YAHOO.COM writes:

>> I have decided that roots are mostly 2 or 3 syllables
>> with syllables being V, CV, CwV or CyV.
>>
>> There are several noun classes:
>>
>> 1 divine     sfa-
>> 2 human      ndi-
>> 3 ideational chwe-
>> 4 animate    ma-
>> 5 living     si-
>> 6 liquid     ru-
>> 7 solid      wa-
>>
>> Take an example root like -kava with a basic maening
>> something like "to flow".  Adding the various class
>> suffixes produces the following:
>>
>> sfakava  - blessing
>> ndikava  - genealogy/lineage
>> chwekava - consiousness
>> makava   - breed/bloodline
>> sikava   - ??
>> rukava   - river
>> wakava   - vein of ore
    NIFTY KEEN system there... I think I hafta add something like that to
goomeelego's class-word system.

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