From The Ashes... «P.S.»

Lemme add something real quick...

>manga   monkey
>shnu    snow
>more    large body of water
>m@lge   female breast
>hhalb   white
>pata    box, basket
>6arku   sinew, bowstring
>lonqa   to bend
>ttapa   to hit (target)
>bocha   young deer
I forgot to mention -- most nouns are really stems: mang-, pat-, hhalb-,
ttap- (as a verbal noun, i.e. "a hit").  These words I went ahead and placed
a vowel at the end, using a form of vowel harmony based on high-low
opposition.  (High vowels are @ u i; low vowels are a o e.)  Most
reconstructed roots have unspecified final vowels, so I just made these
stems.  (Some words bear in mind do have final vowels, such as _more_ where
the low vowel marks inherent feminine; masculine nouns which appear as stems
ending in consonants are femininized with the famous -ah/-at ending.  T is
projected in words beginning with a laryngeal; spirantization mutation
before all other consonants.)

Danny
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