Playing with my dictionary

So, I'm in the (very beginnings of the) process of revising my dictionary,
checking to make sure things make sense, and deciding which roots belong with
which bases to make various forms with their various meanings.

The very first root I am tackling is 'āk' which gives us the bases 'āk',
referring to fingers, and (among others) 'ākiw' which is finger with a
negation suffix, and yields the following forms:

jākiwe (N.singular) something one does not have enough hands for, therefore
something one does not have enough time for; an imposition, an inconvenience;

anākiwe (N.stative) the state of not having enough time for something,
therefore the state of being too busy, over-extended, or over-worked;

and, my favorite, just added to the dictionary:

anākiwi (N.collective) a collection of things one does not have enough hands
for, therefore one does not have enough time for; trouble;

So a word for "trouble" is derived from a root meaning "finger".

Any fun derivations in your dictionary?

-Sylvia
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Sylvia Sotomayor
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This post may contain the following:
ñ (n-tilde)		þ (thorn)
ā (a-macron)		ē (e-macron)
ī (i-macron)		ō (o-macron)
ū (u-macron)		λ (lambda)

āe ñarra anmārienne cī āe reharra anmārienne lā;

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