So this is obviously a work in progress, BUT here are some new Ori derivational morphemes! Yay! I like them.
Derivational Morphemes
-u
This morpheme comes from the word hu‘one’, and it often added to adjectives to create a noun.
lil ‘small’ –> lilu ‘small one’
truma ‘red’ –> trumu ‘red one’
It can also be used with other nouns, however:
cleppa ‘poison’ –> cleppu ‘poisoned one’
-ya
-ya is a gerund marker; it nominalizes a verb (transitive or intransitive):
ta ‘speak’ –> taya ‘speaking’
aste ‘reckon’ –> asteya ‘mathematics’
pra ‘listen’ –> praya ‘listening; educational lecture’
lyeppe ‘enjoy’ –> lyeppeya ‘enjoyment’
clasin ‘become flat’ –> clasinya ‘flattening; (of a person) becoming boring’
-uya
-uya is a suffix that indicates ‘beginning of V/N’, meaning it can attach to either a verb or a noun.
Note that if there is a vowel at the end of the bound morpheme, that first vowel is deleted before -uya.
lyannis ‘make a pilgrimage’ –> lyannisuya ‘beginning of a pilgrimage’
ta ‘speak’ –> tuya ‘beginning of a speech’
syala ‘rule, reign’ –> syaluya ‘beginning of the reign of a king’
becul ‘cave’ –> beculuya ‘antechamber of a cave’
besti ‘earth, ground’ –> bestuya ‘top layer of soil’
cul ‘moon’ –> culuya ‘new moon’
Sometimes the meaning of this suffix implies smallness due to something being “only the beginning of [and no more]” V/N:
lar ‘laugh’ –> laruya ‘a short laugh, a clipped laugh’
lubela ‘secret’ –> lubeluya ‘just a little secret’
-on
-on is an augmentative suffix that applies to nouns.
lyuha ‘dog’ –> lyuhon ‘large dog’
ori ‘man’ –> orion ‘big man’
mil ‘tree’ –> milon ‘large tree’
-li
-li is the opposite of -on, a diminutive suffix for nouns.
lyuha ‘dog’ –> lyuhali ‘puppy’
bistraya ‘flower’ –> bistrayali ‘bud, small blossom’
coru ‘rock’ –> coruli ‘pebble’
bu ‘house’ –> buli ‘room inside a house, chamber’
hesta ‘mountain’ –> hestali ‘hill’
–e
-e is a common ending for adjectives (e.g. nale ‘true’, clippe ‘rotten’, balnye ‘great’). It can also function as a derivative morpheme for adjectivization from nouns.
Usually, if there is a final vowel on the base noun, it is replaced by -e.
hustu ‘belief, trust’ –> huste ‘trusting’
cleppa ‘poison’ –> cleppe ‘poisonous’
galacil ‘smoke’ –> galacile ‘smoky’
lubela ‘secret’ –> lubele ‘secret (adj.)’
roru ‘darkness’ –> rore ‘dark’
cli-/clip-
This is a pejorative prefix that usually affixes to nouns. It comes from the adjective clippe‘rotten, sour’. The cli- form precedes consonant-initial words, whereas the clip- form is used with vowel-initial words.
prasta ‘mind, thoughts; behavior, actions’ –> cliprasta ‘betrayal; treason’
olta ‘tomb’ –> clipolta ‘a badly made or ritualistically wrong or unclean burial’
gerum ‘death’ –> cligerum ‘a dishonorable death’
ha-
This prefix can be used as either an augmentative or an ameliorative (“good N”) prefix.
pyelli ‘pain’ –> hapyelli ‘great pain’
selis ‘teacher’ –> haselis ‘a good teacher’
lyuha ‘dog’ –> halyuha ‘a particularly loyal dog’
bela ‘word’ –> habela ‘eloquence’
belta ‘wind’ –> habelta ‘a sudden warm wind in the winter’
Mintaka2
Each consonant is a full letter with the following vowels being marked as diacritics over the consonant. Freestanding vowels are written as full, and diphthongs and double vowels are either combined diacritics or a full vowel symbol plus a diacritic.
As you can see, many letters are modified to represent the numerous additional sounds that Karkin has. Some consonants have added marks to indicate that voicing (Seloi doesn’t have voiced stops like b, d, g, for example). Some letters have descender marks below them to indicate a change in place of articulation (usually farther back in the mouth). Some fricatives (like the letters for v and s) are reversed to show a change in voicing (f and z). The letter for /l/ is modified to represent /r/ and /ʎ/. Various other changes show sounds that don’t exist in Seloi. Long vowel are represented by double diacritics.
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