Adam Walker sandat:
> 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
sikava - living flow - 'blood', or maybe 'spirit/soul'
Just my 2 cents :)
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