s c |
‘true’ |
scai
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scyai
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‘truth’
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{-awt}
usually added to the inflectional adjective stems
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skho
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‘generous’
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skhawt
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‘generosity’
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{-gi} usually added to the inflectional adjective stems.
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sado
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‘simple’ |
sadgi |
‘simplicity’ |
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tajo
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‘fresh’
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tajgi
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‘freshness’
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{-E)wo}
usually added to the inflected adjective stems.
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suthro
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‘beautiful,
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suthrE)wo
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‘beauty,
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neatness’
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neat’
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mdro
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‘dwarf’
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mdr wo
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‘dwarfness’
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{-pn}
added to the masculine adjective and noun so derived is also masculine.
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cngo
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‘good’
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cngopn
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‘goodness’
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b o
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‘big, great’
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bopn
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‘greatness’
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nilo
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‘green’
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nilopn
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‘greenness’
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{-pU o}
added usually to non-inflecting adjectives.
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lU
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‘wicked’
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lUpUo
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‘wickedness’
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sfed
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‘white’
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sfedpUo
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‘whiteness’
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C. Nouns Dervied From Verbs
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There are suffixes such as -and, -i, -ai, -u, -f,
-no, etc. added to the verbal stem to form the nouns of various types.
These are described below:
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{-and} added to the verbal stem to form the noun belonging to feminine
gender. For example :
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cr
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‘graze’
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crand
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‘pasture’
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{-i} and {-ai} suffixes are added to the verbal stem to form the action
nouns and these derived nouns belongs
to feminine gender. {-ai} is added to the monosyllabic verbal stem and
{-i} is added to the other varbal stems.
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Examples are :
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{-u} added to the verbal root to form masculine nouns {-u} action. For
example:
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cÙjj-
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‘swing’
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cÙjju
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‘the act of swiniging’
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{-Ø} There are also certain abstract nouns formed by zero suffix from
the verbal stem and in such derived nouns there may or may not be some
alternation. These derived nouns are masculine as well as feminine in
gender. Examples are :
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kÙ -
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‘quarrel’
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kÒ(mas)
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‘quarrel,
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fighting’
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ţk¡r
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‘collide’
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 kr
(fem)
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‘collission’
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{-ar} added to some verbal roots to form the nouns belonging to
feminine gender. Examples are :
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khng
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‘cough’’
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khngar
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‘phlegm
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cInk
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‘cry’
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cInkar
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‘crying’
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{-no} added to the verbal stem to form the noun instrument used for the
action denoted by the source verb and such noun is masculine is gender.
E.g.
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‘wrap the |
ţerno |
‘an instrument to wrap
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thread’ |
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the thread’
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{a-}
is added to the verbal infinitive stem and this can take the suffixes of
both the genders. Nouns so
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