When
gender reference is to be made of all higher class of
animals (see sec. 3.2.1.3), or age reference or number
reference (=collective reference) is to be made (see
sec. 3.2.1.1) the nouns that qualify the head nouns
follow the head nouns.
Qualifying
Nouns
/pá/
‘male’
/púi/
’female’
/nú/
‘female’
/cál/
‘male’
/rùol/
‘a
group’
/té/
‘young
one’
/hn/
‘collection
of’
Compounds
/lál
pá/
‘emperor’
/lál
nú/
‘empress’
/súok
pà/
‘male
slave’
/súok
nù/
‘female
slave’
/kèl
cál/
‘he
goat’
/kèl
púi/
‘she
goat’
/sàké
cál/
‘male
tiger’
/sàkéi
púi/
‘female
tiger’
/b:
té/
‘calf
of a cow’
/pàsál
tè/
‘a
minor boy’
/náupá
rùol/
‘a
group of children’
/b:
rúol/
‘a
herd of cows’
/rúl
hn/
‘a
number of snokes’
/thíN
hn/
‘a
stack of fire wood’
Some
nouns referring to some vegetables also show this kind
of compounding. For example :
/ú:m/
‘gourd’
/ú:m-ták/
‘ash
gourd’
/ú:m-fá:k/
‘long
gourd’
/ú:m-d:fá:k/
‘snake
gourd’
/bé/
‘beans’
/bè
púi/
‘snake
beans’, ‘glove beans’
/bè
kán/
‘soy
beans’
/bè
té/
‘cluster
beans’
/bè
éi/
‘snake
beans’
/bè
li/
‘red
beans’
3.6.4
Attributive
N + Head N Compound
Contrary
to the general order of N + Adjective or N + Attributive
compounds, Hmar also manifests some compounds of which
the attributive nouns precede the head nouns. Given
below are few examples :
n/
té/
n/
éi/
i/
