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: Well, the root hu- or hu'- appears in both sentences. Perhaps it's a verbal base like Korean | : Well, the root hu- or hu'- appears in both sentences. Perhaps it's a verbal base like Korean | ||
-pnida or -eyo? And the word for "enemy" and "song" seem to be related. | -pnida or -eyo? And the word for "enemy" and "song" seem to be related. | ||
::Yes, hu is definitely a candidate for a verbal root. But regarding "enemy", I think the root-family is actually "iya" (creature), "iye" (vicious animal), "aye" (ha'aye'i specifically). I suppose the obvious thing to presume is that the middle "y" denotes animal, the last vowel denotes a friendliness-hostility spectrum, and the first vowel is some kind of identifier. But this ignores the other parts of the words... | |||
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Someone should develop this into a full language :-D
- Well, the root hu- or hu'- appears in both sentences. Perhaps it's a verbal base like Korean
-pnida or -eyo? And the word for "enemy" and "song" seem to be related.
- Yes, hu is definitely a candidate for a verbal root. But regarding "enemy", I think the root-family is actually "iya" (creature), "iye" (vicious animal), "aye" (ha'aye'i specifically). I suppose the obvious thing to presume is that the middle "y" denotes animal, the last vowel denotes a friendliness-hostility spectrum, and the first vowel is some kind of identifier. But this ignores the other parts of the words...
