Talk:Trentish Morphology

Thinking out loud here. —Muke Tever | ✎ 21:34, 30 Jan 2005 (PST)

We can have ordinary kinds of verbs in Trentish but by far the most usual type should be generic motion or state markers:

(motion)

khepwu "move from one place to another"

khlede "rise, ascend, move upward without effort"

krrngohnyoh "add to what already exists"

la "move quickly"

luphi "climb, move upward with effort"

ƛohmupu "take away by pieces from what already exists"

qu "stand up"

sohpohne "to lead, go along in front of"

thabal "walk, go by foot"

(state)

aphel "have more ends on one side (fringe, bifurcate)"

küpeqyi "to exist for a long time"

mena "move back and forth irrationally"

nohku "be still and silent"

most generic:

kwr "be (doing)"

shano "be (characterized by)"

Stuff like this would if necessary be modified by... other kinds of modifiers.

Also, the incorporable nouns would be a small class like counters: a generic marker standing for a whole class of things. e.g. u as a noun means 'trent' but as an incorporated noun could stand for any kind of person. Have to think about this.

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