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Re: Weekly Vocab 7 in Kash (part)

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Thursday, May 15, 2003, 2:37
On Wed, 14 May 2003 00:06:00 -0400, Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:

>Hmm, now that you mention this, it turns out that Kash has at least 2 types >of compounds-- (1) noun-noun in which the two words are written separately, >and case-marking would go on the first e.g. ace laca (leg table) 'table-leg' >(as in, Home Depot is having a sale on table-legs), pl. aceç laca >(structurally I think these are viewed as N-Adj.) > >(2) noun-noun but usually bound together with phonological changes and >always written as one word, so case markings go on the end-- > >puna-nuwar (house-stay overnight) > punduwar 'hotel, inn' , pl. punduwaraç >(inanim.) >but also acepamba (ace 'leg' pamba 'thousand') 'k.o. millipede', pl. >acepambala (animate)
Lindiga also has a few noun-noun compounds where the nouns have merged together into a single entity. These are declined with case suffixes at the end. chazilu + leyrla -> chazileyrla (gen. sg. chazileyrlat) weasel bear wolverine mies + tiai -> Miezdiai (gen. sg. Miezdiait) mouse tea Teamouse Other noun-noun compounds attach the case suffixes to the head noun. bin + tiai -> bin-diai (gen. sg. bina-diai) cup tea teacup