| Chart showing
the correspondence between masculine and feminine singular
derivational suffixes |
| Masculine
singular suffix |
Feminine
singular suffix |
-te
|
-ti |
-yi
|
-ti |
-ø |
-ti |
-a
|
-ati |
-e
|
-ati |
-e
|
-i |
-ve
|
-va: u |
-a:e
|
-a: i |
-e
|
-ci |
|
| |
| 4.5 Compound
nouns |
| Compound nouns are formed by
suffixing a free morpheme to another free morpheme in
Yerava. The compound noun thus formed functions as a single
noun. The first stem to which another stem is being suffixed
functions as an attribute and the later one functions
as the head of the compound. Two types of such nouns are
identified. They are |
1. |
Endo-centric compound nouns |
2. |
Exo-centric compound nouns |
|
| |
| 1. Endo-centric
compound nouns |
| The compound noun expresses
the total meaning or combined meaning of the component
nouns. The following types of component nouns are identified
in this class of compound nouns. |
I.
|
Noun-Noun |
II. |
Adjective+Noun |
| III. |
Verb+Noun |
|
