Mysterious Rokbeigalmki Affix/Mutation Needs Name
From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
Date: | Monday, May 1, 2000, 2:52 |
hi!
well, it's not really that mysterious, but i need to know what to call
it, because my anthropology assignment, which i'm basing on Rokbeigalmki,
is due tomorrow.
here's the problem:
the rokbeigalmki wordsign orthography splits up each morpheme in the word
to a separate symbol, this includes the suffix /D/ {dh} which also
commonly is absorbed into the end of the root.
manoi = eat
manoidh = eater
waj = settle
wajh = settler
okta = war
oktadh = warrior
in the "dictionary" for the system, i'm translating each word that they
wanted by breaking up it's symbols, so i have so far:
(with the symbols going to be written in after the equals)
I =
Son [male+child] =
Daughter [female+child] =
Father [male+birth+{dh}] =
My question is, what do you call this affix? an "agent" affix?
Thanks!
-Stephen (Steg)
"sleep, like a fog, blew over him." ~ _gilgamesh_