Re: Norreyna again (long-ish)

Aidan Grey wrote:
>   If I have the root SIW, which indicates the idea of
>following, how do you derive the noun meaning
>'travois'? I want to avoid Tolkien's method (using the
>same suffixes over and over so that all the nouns end
>in -wa, for example). How about verbs? Adjectives?>
That's a problem in my Kash, too, which has only two affixes to derive nouns
from verbs 1. thing that (verbs/is verbed) 2. person who (verbs).  It leads
to a lot of compounding and circumlocutions.  I've had to invent a number of
no-longer productive processes for occasional use.

You could devise a fairly rich system of derivations:  1. thing that verbs
2. thing that is verbed 3/4 person who verbs/is verbed 5. place where... 6
act of verbing 7 act of being verbed 8 abstract idea of verb etc etc.

My idea of a travois is not so much somthing that follows, as something that
is dragged along behind an aminal or person.  Presumably in a nomadic
culture, it's a fairly important piece of equipment, so you could create a
"proto-compound" based on "drag" maybe, perhaps "carry" too, then subject it
to sound changes so that the modern term is no longer recognizable as a
compound.