Re: conlang dreams

Amanda Babcock scripsit:

> I think the verb was throne-sitting.  I wanted the thing to be a throne,
> and it wanted to *sit* on one :)
This sort of reminds me of Voksigid noun generation.  In Voksigid, all
roots are verbs, and you use a CVC suffix corresponding to a semantic case
to create a noun meaning "thing which fits in that case of the verb".
Thus "-tor" is the agent suffix, and "dona-tor" means "giver", because
"dona" is the verb "give".  (Resemblance to Latin no coincidence.)

The stative verb suffix is "-len", so given that "homo" means "to
be human" or "to be a person" (I forget which), "homolen" = "a human
being/a person".  But what does "homotor" mean?  That which plays the
agentive role in personhood/humanity?

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