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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA
kamsala?esi ayya
‘goldsmith’s mother/wife’
sakala?esi ayya
‘washerman’s wife/mother’
a:lu kunna
‘potato’
na: ń
geli kunna
‘edible root’
kum
a kucca
‘leaves of pumpkin plant’
ja:yu kucca
‘greens cooked with pulses’
4.6.3.
Co-ordinate compounds:
These compounds have two or more nuclei and are pronounced as a single word without pause between the constituents:
ayya:ba
‘parents’
po:da:
o:la
‘sons and daughters’
okra:
okri
‘husband and wife’
ADJECTIVES
5.0
Adjectives are a class of words which are attributes to nouns and are not inflected for gender and number.
5.0.1.
Adjectives may be broadly classified into two types,
(i) simple (ii) derived
5.1.1.
Simple Adjectives
are all monomorphemic words which function as attributes to nouns.
5.1.1.2.
Descriptive Adjectives:
u:
ņa
o:la
‘small boy’
u:
ņa po:da
‘small girl’
nehĺ
illu
‘good house’
nehĺ
ilka
‘good houses’
ka:
·
ini bilei
‘black cat’
ka:
ini ga:yi
‘black cow’
ka:mbu ka:ya
‘ripe fruit’
5.1.1.2.
Demonstrative Adjectives
The demonstrative adjectives express the relative distance of the nouns from the speaker as being proximate, intermediate or remote.
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