Re: Collective nouns

--- caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
wrote:

> I can't find the message to which I was going to
> attach this, so
> I'll just start a new thread.
>
> Senjecan has a suffix, -îjos, for making collective
> nouns out of
> count nouns.  A few examples:
>
> alûn-es (dove) + îjos = álunîjos, flock of doves.
>
> âr-os (nut) + îjos = arîjos, mast.
>
> câq-a (bind) + vââl-os (leaf = book) + -îjos =
> cáqvaalîjos, library.
elomi ( http://fiziwig.com/lexicon.html ) has:

apiti (word) -> ale'napiti (vocabulary, lexicon)
apuka (book) -> ale'napuka (library)
apoli (tree) -> ale'napoli (forest)
apunta (button, key) -> ale'napunta (keyboard)
...

--gary