Re: USAGE: Words for "boredom"

Tom Wier wrote:


>Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:
>
>> Kash recently gained two words:
>> -- pondri 'bored' (related to pori 'tired'), and
>
>Is that /n/ infix very productive?
>
I'm not sure.  It certainly was in the proto-language, and Kash's branch
probably retained it actively until relatively recently (i.e. 3-400 years
ago).  Nowadays there are enough -C- ~ -NC- forms in common use that it's
possible to use it still in nonce-forms, which may or may not survive.
(It's also a very handy device from my POV for creating vocabulary.)

It was in fact *-n@-, and still survives as a -nV-syllable in some
languages. Basically it tended/tends to intensify the meaning of the base.
There was also a proto-infix *-r@-, that tended to add a
frequentative/distributive sense to the base, but it doesn't get used as
much.