Re: TRANS: Happiness
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 26, 2001, 12:02 |
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Hi!
Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes:
> cevan [tSevan]: "happiness" (the most general form)
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> related substantives:
>
> icevan [itSevan]: "joy, happiness"
> ycevan [i"tSevan]: "hope"
> acevan [atSevan]: "contentment, fulfillment"
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> ferun [pferun]: "search"
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> related substantives
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> iferun [ipferun]: "invention, creation"
> yferun [i"pferun]: "search, quest"
> aferun [apferun]: "finding, discovery"
Nice! Is the mechanism of prefixing i-, y- and a- totally regular?
If so, what are the functions of these affixes?
I'm still on my quest for particles in Tyl-Sjok for forming nice
derivations of stems I already have.
**Henrik
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