Re: Letf / Right, was Re: Count and mass nouns

Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:


> ObMyConlang: Yargish has postpositions for "left of" and "right of" - _-aj_
> and _-ich_, namely. So you get things like _u-yuran_ "the troll",
> _u-yuraniz-
> ich_ "to the right of the troll", _u-yurana-aj_ "from left of the troll".
> FYI,
> _-iz_ is the locative ending (which only occurs with a following cliticized
> postposition) and _-a_ is the erg/abl one.
Hm, _u-yuraniz-ich_ (that's [M'jMranizitS], btw) might require further
explanation - it refers to _stationary_ position right of the troll. _Towards_
a position right of the troll is _u-yuranu-ich_, with the dative case.

                                                       Andreas

PS Aficionados of [M] ought take the Yargish word _u-yuru-u_ [M.'jM.rM.M] to
heart. That's right, two of the things in hiatus, and four of them in a
hexaphonemic word. The meaning, of course, is "towards the surface of the big
one".