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’
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