CONLANG Digest - 28 Feb 2000 to 29 Feb 2000 (#2000-61)

>Date:    Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:08:13 -0600
>From:    Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
>Subject: A poem by Ryokun
>
>lass-a-ata umu Riukun
>word-+-thing by Ryokun
>Explanation of abbreviations, et alia
>
>+ -- "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"
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...)

     *Muke!

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