Re: Linguistic term for ease of changing word-class (was: 'out-' affix in conlangs?)

caeruleancentaur skrev:
>  First, I had to create a word for sibling! I
>  went with som-dzôôn-m-us, i.e., same-parent-
>  having-person.
Which got me thinking. Do most language, nat or
con, have a root-word for 'sibling' or not? The
English word comes from Old English _sibb_
'relative' and _-ling_ 'descendant' and Swedish
_syskon_ (with relatives in Norwegian and Danish)
comes from the stem of _sister_ and the root of
_kin_. German _geschwister_ 'siblings' is more or
less the same idea. Latin _germanus/germana_ is an
adjective meaning 'of (the same) seed', so at
least in IE languages of Europe compouns seem to
be the rule.

Perhaps _som-dzôôn-m-us_ becomes _stsôôm(u)s_
or )_zdzôôm(u)s_ colloquially!

/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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  "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient
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  ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*,
  c'est qu'elles meurent."           (Victor Hugo)

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