Re: Devoid

On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 15:40 +0000, caeruleancentaur wrote:
> I happened upon the word "devoid" today.  It seems to be an
> interesting adjective.  While synonyms are "empty, vacant, etc." it
> must be used with "of" and cannot be used attributively or
> predicatively.
>
> How do you conlangers handle it in your conlangs?
Veldan would use either the preposition gan (= without) or the privative
negative gna- (both from the same root *gn:).  E.g., gnateco`s (=
without skill, devoid of skill, unskilled, incompetent), gna- + teco`s.
(The grave accent marks a primary accent that is in a syllable that has
a short vowel and is in an "unusual" position in the word.  Letters have
Latin-class :) values.)


Cian Ross
cian@cox-internet.com
http://crlh.tzo.org/~cian/conlang/

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