Re: adjectives -> adverbs

Daniel Andreasson wrote:

> Hello y'all!
>
> Lately I've been curious as to how adverbs are
> formed out of adjectives.
>
> I know that in Swedish you use the neuter form
> of adjectives, in English you use -ly, and in
> German you don't do anything at all.
> But there has to be more and cooler ways.
>
> I've been thinking about using an infix in my
> conlang Rinya. ('Paeno' =3D good ; 'paenio' =3D well)
> Or perhaps changing the last -o into -e.
>
> But then I run out of ideas. Do you guys know
> of any cool way of doing this? There has to
> be some unusual way in like African or Australian
> languages for example.
>
> Hope you can give me some ideas,
In Spanish there is a suffix -mente which makes an adjective (in
femenine) into an adverb... if I'm not mistaken, that _mente_ suffix was
originaly a noun _mente_ (mind), and the adverb was originally a noun
phrase, somethinkg like:
  Juan contruy=F3 la casa habil mente.
  John built the house skilful way.
then
  Juan contruy=F3 la casa habilmente.
  John built the house skilfully.

This could give a way of deriving adjectives into adverbs: make them
noun phrases.

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Carlos Th