Re: Attn: Spanish speakers

Roberto Suarez Soto <ask4it@...> writes:

>         For example: my grief was about adjectives that came from nouns.
> I was thinking how it was done in spanish, and I realized that there are
> quite a few ways to do it:
And there should. I can't imagine anything more boring
than a conlang deriving all lexical fields in unique
ways! :) In general, whenever I invent a derivative affix
to do something like this, I write down one or two
less-common alternatives.

Yivokuchi has |-in|, |-at|, |-gaw|, |-ip| and |-no| for
different shades of meaning.

    kekin 'likely' from kak- 'chance'
    gabat 'limit' from gab- 'limit'
    feingaw 'desirable' from fein 'want, will'
    tuip 'mandatory' from tup- 'obligation'
    cirtalno 'serious' from cirtal 'seriousness'

Plus Ablaut/diphthongization, from verbs:

    ael 'full, packed' from Old Y. /hE:l/, from /hEl/ 'fill'
    laod 'expressive' from Old Y. /lO:d/, from /lOd/ 'show'


--Pablo Flores
  http://www.angelfire.com/ego/pdf/ng/index.html

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