p t k q b d g s x h m n l r w y(j)

i e ( - ) a ( - ) u (u - o)
Roots represent vague semantic meanings, usually verbal. Most often, roots are CVC, but

occasionally can be VC, or, VCV, the latter two usually reserved for a few basic words that
have undergone some sound changes.
Roots

AGU - eye; see

SET - human being (noun root)
SI - count (verb)

NUR - stand; stand guard

NURRUM - man; male human

NUNUR - guardian, watchman; shield
NUNURRI - watchwoman
LU' - bread; cake

LU'DAR - woman
LU'DARA - eunuch; gay man (derogatory)
YUT - same; alike

ASUD - love; to like

LU'DARASUD - one who loves women

NURRUMASUD - one who loves men
LO - dwell; inhabit

LOUM - inhabitant
LOLO - inhabitant

YALLOUM - inhabitant of a plateau/the heavens

YAL - high wooded area; plateau; heavens
UR - time; the flow of time

U - day; rotational cycle, sunset to sunset

QAH - to fear; to be angry; to boil
QAHAMA - fear-mother; a witch
QATTIGDAR - fear-doer; witch
AMA - mother

EBE - father

TIG - make; do
RUD - walk; travel pass; foot

'I - thing, tool (only used in word formation to make some nouns)
WEL - hand, forearm

TAK - spirit, idea; to think (only used to make some abstract nouns)
E' - house, building

HAN - breeze; wind; to blow, move

EHHAN - inspiration; the wind that blows through doors
Word Formation

-RI - feminine specific

-(A) - masculine specific

-DAR - active relationship to stem

TIGDAR - action; effort

-'UM - the essence of a thing; patient/experiencer relationship

HANNUM - spirit; life

TIGGUM - a created thing (tiggumerap - 'the created things', creation)

-(A)LLU - '-ness', '-try' hanallu windiness, a storm; typhoon

Words can be easily combined with eachother. The modifying word goes before the main
semantic element. There are phonetic rules for the combination of morphemes.

QAH + 'I (fear + thing) -> QAHHI (fear (as an object); battle mask; "war face")
WEL + TIG (hand + make) -> WELTIG (to craft something (with hands); to sculpt)
AMA + TAK (mother + idea) -> AMATAK (motherhood, parenthood)

reduplication of the root can imply a frequentive or habitual, or it can imply diminutive with
nouns.

QAQAH - worry

WEWEL - wrist; hand

SET-ER-AP-IK (seterapik - human.ART.PL.ERG - the humans)
AGU-TTI-A - (agutti - saw, see+past+perfective+3pm)
YALERAP (yaler - the heavens)

seterapik yalerap aguttia - the men saw the heavens

seterapik yap kiaguttia - the men saw them

^ plural unnamed objects show plurality by the particle YAP, which is just the plural affix.
aaya ayqaqahummi - i worry about him
ararya utaqaqahummi - you worry about her
AA() - masculine specific pronoun
ARA(R) - feminine specific pronoun
Affixes
-(E)R - definite article
-AP - plural

-IK - ergative
- - absolutive
-IM - dative

-AR - genitive
-UH - inessive
-US - illative

-INI - instrumentive

-YA - comitative; locative

-EY - abessive
-EG - ablative

ay - first person patient/exp

uta - second person pat/exp

KI- - NONHUMAN PATIENT/EXPERIENCER

I- - MASCULINE SPECIFIC PATIENT/EXPERIENCER
RI- - FEMININE SPECIFIC PAT/EXP
-(A)Y- first person agent

-(A)T - second person agent

- - third person general agent

-(A) - third person masculine specific agent

-(A)RI - third person feminine specific agent

-UMMI - present tense
- - past tense, gnomic
-SU - future tense

-UN - perfect (retrospective, prospective)

-(A)TTI - perfective

-ANSI - imperfective