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i : illu  ‘this house’
u : illu  ‘that house’
e : illu  ‘that house (far away)
i : ayya  ‘this woman’
u : ayya  ‘that woman’
e : ayya  ‘that woman’

5.2
 		 Derived Adjectives
5.2.1.

 		 All derived adjectives consisting of a single root but more than one morpheme belong to this class. The following sub-classes may be set up.
 
5.2.1.1
 		 Derived from nouns.
 
5.2.1.1.1
 		 Nouns used in the genitive case function as adjectives.
 
kaati e:yu  ‘water of the river’
ho:ruti kamma  ‘shifting agriculture
(lit. work of the hill)’

5.2.1.1.2
 		 The oblique-genitive stems of personal pronouns are used adjectively.
na:kaņka  ‘my eyes’
ni:illu  ‘your house’
 
5.2.2
Derived from verbs

5.2.2.1.
 		 Verbal stems with the adjectival suffix -i are used adjectivally.
ŗukki ko:di  ‘ploughing bull’
va:yi a:ku  ‘drying leaf’

5.2.2.2.

 		 Verbal stems with tense-mood suffixes become adjectives by the addition of -i.
ŗukkini ko:i  ‘bull which is ploughing’
ŗukkiti ko:i  ‘bull which was ploughing’
va:yini a:ku  ‘leaf which is drying’
va:yiti a:ku  ‘leaf which was drying’

5.2.3
 		 Derived from adjectives
5.2.3.1.

 		 Syntactically free adjectives are involved in morphologically derived pronominals by the addition of the person-number-gender suffix.
 

kajja ‘big, great’

 
[ na:nu ] kajjateni ’ I [ am ] great person
[ ma:ro ] kajjatayi  ‘we [ are ] great persons (incl.)
[ ma:mbu ] kajjatomi  ‘we [ are ] great persons (excl.)
[ ni:nu ] kajjati  ‘you [ are ] great person
[ mi:ru ] kajjateri  ‘you [ are ] great persons’
[ evasi ] kajjasi  ‘He [ is ] great person’
[ evari ] kajjari  ‘They [ are ] great persons’
[ edi ] kajjayi  ‘she it [ is ] great person/thing
[ evasika/evi ] kajja?i  ‘They/Those [ are ] great persons’
 
5.2.3.2.
 		 Cardinal Adjectives : 
The cardinal numerals roņi ‘one’ , riņi ‘two’ have bound forms which occur with nouns. 
 
ro ga:yi  ‘one cow’
ri ga:yi  ‘two cows’

When the cardinal adjective is used he used the use of the plural suffix is optional.
 
5.2.3.2


 		 The bound forms ri-ņ ti:ni, sa:ri, pa:so also occur with the word ko·e ‘twenty’ to form the higher numerals from forty to hundred. 

 
 

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