| Examples: |
|
|
1.
b -sa-jla
|
b-sa-juk |
| pron.pre.-child-male=’son’
|
pro.pre.-child-female=
‘daughter’ |
| 2.
thurug-jla
|
thurug-juk |
| muslim-male=’muslim
man’ |
muslim-female=’muslim
women’ |
| 3.
wag-jla
|
wag-ma |
| pig-male=’male
pig |
pig-female=’female
pig’ |
4.
t msa-jla
|
tmsa-burµy |
| Tomosa-male=’male
Tomosa bird’ |
Tomosa-female=’femaleTomosa
bird’ |
|
|
| 3.1.4.
Number: |
When reference is
made to more than one thing, plurality is expressed by adding after
the noun a collective adjective which is a free from meaning ‘many,
much’. But it is added to the noun without any pause in between.
The adjective used with human nouns is s .
The adjectives used with animate and inanimate nouns are rk
and kba.
Though they are free variants, the former is more common. These collective
adjectives, besides expressing plurality (i.e., group of identical
things), also give the meaning of ‘remainder in a group’.
For example, ram-s
not only means ‘many Rams’ but also means ‘Ram and
others’. |
| Examples: |
| (i)
|
Human: |
takhuk-s |
‘brothers’ |
| |
|
bta-s |
‘his
elder brothers or his elder brother and others’
|
| (ii)
|
Animate:
|
cray-rk |
‘boys’ |
| |
|
thµy-rk |
‘lot
of blood’ |
| |
|
ami-rk |
‘cats’ |
| (iii)
|
Inaninate: |
manµy-kba |
‘many
things’ |
| |
|
sµy-kba |
‘many
dogs’ |
|
|
| The morpheme indicating
plurality occurs after the morpheme indicating maleness or femaleness
if it is present. |
| Example: |
| b«-sa-juk-s
hug- tha- |
| pron.pre-child-female-many
field-at go-press. |
| ‘The daughters
are going to the field.’ |
| hr-
sµy-jla-rk
sug- |
| night-at dog-male-many
bark-pres. |
| ‘The dogs
bark at night’. |
| 3.1.5.
Numerals: |
| The numeral is a sub-class
of nouns and it takes all the suffixes a noun base takes. The numeral
is formed by combining with the classifier selected on the basis of
the semantic class of the noun. The numeral always follows the noun.
If the |
