Re: Types of Compounds

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:19:11 -0500, Eric Christopherson
<rakko@...> wrote:

>On Oct 19, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Jeffrey Jones wrote:
>
>> One of the things I neglected to handle in MNCL was a method of
>> compounding (MNCL has plenty of derivation). MNCL5 has inherited this
>> deficiency, which I'm now trying to rectify. I could assign one of the
>> unused (except for particles) final suffixes to each of the types of
>> compounds. But first, what are all the different types? There's adjective
>> + noun, of course, like "redbird".
>>
>> Jeff
>
>Try < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_%28linguistics%29 >.
I've read it and I've been trying to put together a coherent summary, but my
ability to concentrate has gotten worse lately. In the meantime, there's at
least one type of compound that doesn't need any new endings, but can
possibly use the genitive construction:

hundo husa -- "doghouse"

Another can use the genitive with a role-inversion suffix -t-:

Zo foglo teila ruye. -- "The bird's tail is red."
Ma videk ruyo teilto foglok. "I saw a red-tailed bird."
The -o on ruy- is the genitive singular ending. The -o on teilt- is adjectival.