Re: Finno-Ugric languages
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 21, 1998, 6:25 |
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Charles wrote:
> I'm having trouble coming up with a good short morpheme
> for "people" (trying to base it on Latin/IE). I like
> "vir" for male persons, "fem" for female, but the
> best-so-far for both (epicene?) is "pern" or "dem",
> which really won't do. Hmm, maybe "sav" ...
In Degaspregos (which is based almost entirely on PIE), the root
morpheme for "person" is -ir-, to which gender prefixes and grammatical
suffixes may be added. "wiros" = man, while "gwiros" = woman.
(male and female could be "wos" and "gwos" respectively). In Degaspregos
there are no roots which are inately any of the nine genders; they all
form them from gender affixes.
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