Re: Terms of Endearment

> Chris Bates wrote:
>
> > How many people have the [love/like] distinction in their
> > conlang?
Well, Tairezazh has _tshei-_ "to love" and _neir-_ "to like". _Tshei-_ used to
have similarly broad meaning as English "to love", but in the modern language
it's largely restricted to romantic love. _Neir-_ is very broad in meaning.

> >  And finally, adjectives used as nouns. Do many conlangs/natlangs
> allow
> > free use of adjectives as nouns? .....Of course, this question has
> > no meaning if a language has stative verbs instead of adjectives.
Tairezazh adjectives can be used as nouns without change in basic form.
They'll take nominal endings for case and number, however.

                                                            Andreas