Re: An Excercise

Don Blaheta wrote:

>bound:
>-noka/-gika "my"
>-nosta/-gista "your"
>-m/-t singular (elided if possessive is present)
>no-/so- plural
>-be "tool for"
>-tu verb, specific and intentional action
>-si verb, ongoing or passive action
>-k present
>-lar past
>
>
>Definitely some gender stuff going on here; some words take "no-"
>and "-m" while others take "so-" and "-t"; of these, most M
>declension words take possessives in -gi, while most T declension
>words take -no possessives (with exceptions in both directions).
Well there is a gender system: -m for animate and -t for inanimate with
respective plurals in no- and so-; where animate include animals, people,
body parts and concepts like soul.

-gi: inalienable possessive
-no: alienable possessive

After body parts and some relationships like father/mother/son/doughter are
inalienable, those -m words use the
-gi possessive, while things are alienable and inanimate:

  Exceptions: wife (you can marry and divorce) and animals (you can buy,
steal or sell) are animate but alienable.  Name, by other hand, is
inalienable and inanimate.

-- Carlos Th

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