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#** {{morphTest|lyp{{tag|n}}|lyp}} - seed
 
#** {{morphTest|lyp{{tag|n}}|lyp}} - seed
 
#* Verb
 
#* Verb
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#** lyp - sow
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#** {{morphTest|lyp{{tag|n}}|lyp}} - sow
 
#* Adjective
 
#* Adjective
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#** jjip - full
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#** {{morphTest|jjip{{tag|n}}|jjip}} - full
 
# Semi-closed  
 
# Semi-closed  
 
#* Determiner, adverb, conjunction
 
#* Determiner, adverb, conjunction

Revision as of 15:42, 10 February 2022


Part of Speech

  1. Open
    • Noun
      • lyp<n> ↔ lyp - seed
    • Verb
      • lyp<n> ↔ lyp - sow
    • Adjective
      • jjip<n> ↔ jjip - full
  2. Semi-closed
    • Determiner, adverb, conjunction
  3. Closed
    • Pronoun, particle, auxiliary, complementizer

Morphological Analysis

1. Size prefixes

  • The diminutive prefixes i and the augmentative prefix a can be prefixed to a set of adjectival roots generating pairs of antonyms.
    • -ix (big)
    • -iet (big)
    • -a (small)
    • ax (small)

2. mu- prefix 'place, sky, stream'

3. Nominalizer suffixes

  • -lu (action)
  • -jjux (quality or extent)
  • -tie (manner)

4. Adjectivizer suffixes

  • -sa
  • -we

5. Reduplicaiton

  • Nouns
  • Cl
  • Pronouns
  • Verbs/Adjectives reduplicate to form alternative question

6.Color Ideophones

7. Gender/Age suffixes