Re: lexicons
| From: | dunn patrick w <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 31, 1999, 15:29 |
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On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Gary Shannon wrote:
> What I've been doing with Tazhi is discovering one single root, and applying
> all the various prefixes and suffixes that Tazhi has to derive related
> words. That way I get about a dozen new words in my dictionary for every
> new root I discover.
>
> --gary.
I do something similar with Telu'at'a. For instance, the suffix -'e means
"one who performs the action of", while the suffix -le means "tool by
which ones performs the action of." But isn't it a little artificial to
do this slavishly? After all, English has "write" and "writer" but not
"writer (i.e. pencil)". We have "cook", but no "cooker (i.e. one who
cooks)".