Re: Here we go loup-garou

The language is very verb-centric.   Almost all the roots are verbs,
and the nouns are derived from them, usually as active or passive
agentive forms.

infinitive: markan = "to rule over as monarch"
    (What?  No, not derived from "Mark".  TOTAL coincidence. :))

active agent: markar = "one who rules", "ruler", "monarch", "king", "queen"
   (the language in general has no gender distinctions; e.g. the usual
word for both familial relationships "mother" and "father" just means
"parent".  It does have separate words that are closer in meaning to
"dam" and "sire", being the agent forms of the verbs "to give birth
to" and "to sire")

passive agent: markiar = "that which is ruled", "kingdom"

That's where many of those unsightly r's come from, and they're
maintained in several of the other case inflections...