Pabappa SOV compounds
Subject-object-verb compounds
Some nouns are actually complete sentences with just the verb endings removed. This could be classified as a type of polysynthesis. Unlike the subject-verb compounds above, SOV compounds generally show transitive action, and are commonly used as verbs. However, because all verbs have a stem which behaves grammatically as a noun, they are nonetheless grouped with the other compounds as nouns.
Polysynthetic compounds are generally used metaphorically, since the subject is generally present in the sentence. Many of these words are very old, and make use of short, sometimes even subsyllabic, morphemes that no longer have any independent use in Poswa as standalone words. For example, the early Pabappa verb pi "to kill" has disappeared from the language as a standalone verb because it coalesced with a verb meaning "to lick". However, it is still found in SOV compounds of this type. [1]
| Active element |
meaning | Passive element |
meaning | Verbal element |
meaning | New word | meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pop | sharp object | wul | fish | pi | to kill | poppi | to go fishing |
| wul | fish | si | ice | ti | to break open | isti | to behave as a fish breaking through ice |
| po | hand | lara | legs | pana | to create pleasure | blana | to masturbate |
| — | — | lara | legs | pana | to create pleasure | lana | to have sex |
| pul | baby | — | — | isi | to guess | pulisi | children guessing naively; to guess |
| ta | toddler | — | musa | to play with each other | tansa | children playing with each other; as on a playground | |
| po | hand | tim | soap | i | bubbles; lather | pommi | to lather someone up with soap; to bathe |
| pip | man | so | man | pana | to create pleasure | pitsuna | gay man |
| su | sun | sap | snow | im | to make disappear | sussem | to melt |
| uma | woman | oma | woman | pana | to create pleasure | utana | lesbian |
| pup | penis | — | — | wupu | pain | puppupu | rape |
| pup | penis | ma | womb | su | penetrate | punsa | to impregnate someone; become a father |
| ma | womb | pul | baby | pi | kill | mappi | to have a miscarriage; spontaneous abortion |
| pampor | weapon | as | human | api | to repeat | pamporapi | war; when weapons hurt humans[2] |
| pup | penis | pip | vagina | pana | to create pleasure | pupipuna | to have (penile-vaginal) sexual intercourse |
| po | hand | pup | penis | pana | to create pleasure | popupana | a man masturbating |
| po | hand | pip | vagina | pana | to create pleasure | popipuna | a woman masturbating |
- ↑ From Poswa: Note that the accusative ending -p on the object is often not present; this is because the OV portion of the word can be parsed as another SV compound in which the inanimate subject is grammatically active but syntactically passive. However, if the object of the sentence is animate, it will take the -p.
- ↑ spelled pampobapi in pink notebook
