Re: Tech _hay_

Danny Wier wrote:
>
>And I overlooked another root that's very similar: *way "woe!".  Again, an
>interjection, but what if I used it for a case ending?
>
>To correct the above examples:
>
>borg "war"
>bävörg "great, glorious war" (ä, ö = a, o with umlauts, the latter
resulting
>from vowel harmony)
>wävörg "silly, unfortunate war" (again, the umlauts)
>
>Now I need two new names for the cases: the former being an expression of
>greatness and awe; the latter pity and contempt.  The only terms I can
think of
>are "exaltative" and "humilitative" (!?).

Before *way came along, I thought of "exclamatory"; but now, since there's a
contrast, how about "appreciative" vs. "depreciative" ?  (These don't strike
me as true "cases", but I don't know what they would be called.)

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