Arda/Henaudute

Description

Henaudute (Ἡναυδυτε) is a Dele language, spoken on Arda.

• Timespan: beginning from 1400s anno mundi ≈ classical times
• Setting: Yellow Empire (Ῥαυραρ Ἡνατε)

• Author: Muke Tever | ✎

Subpages

• Henaudute Lexicon
• Henaudute texts
• Henaudute ceremonial calendar

Morphology

Adjectives

There are few if any true adjectives; most are participial forms.

Comparison of adjectives is formed by prefixation.

	ου	-θα	= ουθα
	old	PART:T	: "old"
ἀμ-	ου	-θα	= ἀμουθα
COMP	old	PART:T	: "older"
ἰσ-	ου	PART:T	= ἰσουθα
SUP	old	ADJ:TAN	: "oldest"

Gender

There are three genders, ταν (tan, fire), λῡε (lūe, water), and γαρη (garē, earth).

• Ταν is, broadly, all terms of high animacy; this class includes people, animals, σταφθα (staphtha, self-propelled) processes such as fire, and complex systems, where "complex systems" are symptoms comprising simpler systems. An example is λαν (lan, the hand), which comprises νοθι (nothi, fingers).
• Λῡε, terms of low animacy, including simple systems, plants, collectives, verbal nouns, parts of ταν things, and ὑνταφθε (huntaphthe, non-propelled) processes such as rivers.
• Γαρη, inanimate terms, including parts of λῡε things, diminutives, augmentatives, mass nouns, words and letters.