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Re: Collective nouns

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Monday, December 19, 2005, 22:27
--- 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