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 ge corresponds to English "of".

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)

Apart from the above 4 cases, you do not often get spacial and role tags in the same word.

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

1. Introduction to Seuna
2. Seuna : Chapter 1
3. Seuna word shape
4. The script of Seuna
5. Seuna sentence structure
6. Seuna pronouns
7. Seuna nouns
8. Seuna verbs (1)
9. Seuna adjectives
10. Seuna demonstratives
11. Seuna verbs (2)
12. Asking a question in Seuna
13. Seuna relative clauses
14. Seuna verbs (3)
15. Methods for deriving words in Seuna
16. List of all Seuna derivational affixes
17. Numbers in Seuna
18. Naming people in Seuna
19. The Seuna calendar
20. Seuna units