Re: CONLANG Digest - 28 Feb 2000 to 29 Feb 2000 (#2000-61)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 3, 2000, 4:36 |
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:56:15 -0500, Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
wrote:
>
>>+ -- "a" is a conjunctive particle (is there an official name for this?)
>>indicating that the words joined by it are considered one unit. Thus
>>"lass-a-ata = wordthing, or "poem"
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>Sounds like (what the last linguistics book I read called) an interfix.
>Jadúno has one with what looks like the same function, the -ai- in words like
>"jawélainucho", (TA + wake + night) for the Nightwatch (only example that
>comes to mind, I'm not at my computer...)
Tirelat has one of these in its own name! tir+e+lat, "wren language".
There actually are a few of these with different functions in Tirelat, but
-e- is the most generic one.
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