Seuna nouns
"Nouns in Seuna" has a lot of old ideas. "Seuna suffixes and some grammar" has an old idea. "Seuna rubbish" the same.
plural
The plural is formed by adding a final "n". In the writing system this is represented by a grammatical mark :, not by the soundmark n.
kloga = shoe, klogan = shoes
spatial tags
These eight tags are endstuck to nouns.
bali = above
keja = below
das = in front (i.e. this side of)
cimo = behind (i.e. at the far side of)
ni = on (covers about the same semantic space as English "on")
tian = beside
pi = in
mu = out
When the noun is plural, the n mutates to m in the first case amd the seventh case, to ŋ in the second.
role tags
You can say that we have seven cases.
The nominative is unmarked. Also the noun that follows all prepositions is unmarked. The accusative is also unmarked unless it is definite, in which case it takes the endtag s.
The endtag fi corresponds to English "at". It is often eroded to f if the word ends in a vowel or n. The eight relative space tags above can be thought of as a semantic expantion of fi. You do not normally use fi along with one of the relative space tags. However it is not impossible.
The endtag le corresponds to English "from".
The endtag ho corresponds to English "with".
The endtag u corresponds to English "by".
The endtag wa corresponds to English "towards". Also to English "about" as in "I think about you".
The endtag yo corresponds to English "to" or "upto". It is used exactly as in English to indicate the receiver of a gift.
Some attrition
NA go housePIYO (S/he goes into the house) => NA go housePYO NA come housePILE (S/he comes out of the house) => NA come housePLE
cat jumped wallNIYO (The cat jumped onto the wall) => cat jumped wallNYO cat jumped wallNILE (The cat jumped off the wall) (The NI bit is ofter missed out)
compounds
There are many compounds. The compounds are head final. More than 50% are attributive compounds. Compounds have a nasal inserted between the two components. In the writing system this is represented by a grammatical mark . (actually it should be mid-level). If the second component begins with a unvoiced sound, it changes to voices in the compound
The same method of compounding is used for object incorporating in verbs.
I hunt deer => I deer.hunt
Index
- Introduction to Seuna
- Seuna : Chapter 1
- Seuna word shape
- The script of Seuna
- Seuna sentence structure
- Seuna pronouns
- Seuna nouns
- Seuna verbs (1)
- Seuna adjectives
- Seuna demonstratives
- Seuna verbs (2)
- Asking a question in Seuna
- Seuna relative clauses
- Seuna verbs (3)
- Methods for deriving words in Seuna
- List of all Seuna derivational affixes
- Numbers in Seuna
- Naming people in Seuna
- The Seuna calendar
- Seuna units