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Neo-Adûnaic adjectival formations

Biconsonantal

 

Root-based: CaVCV

Ex.: KATH and LUKH

Passive participle: CVCân

Ex.: BITH and ZIR

Singular

kâtha; lôkhu

bîthân; zîrân

Plural

kâthî; lôkhî

bîthânî; zîrânî

 

Triconsonantal

 

Root-based: CVCCV

Ex.: DULUG and ZINID

Passive participle: CVCVCân

Ex.: SAPHAD and PHAZAG

Singular

dulgu; zindi

saphadân; phazagân

Plural

dulgî; zindî

saphadânî; phazagânî

 

Rules

- The root-based adjectives are always singular and before the agreeing noun, unless they are the predicative and

the agreeing noun is in the Subjective plural.

- Passive participles are always after the agreeing noun.

- Passive participles cause any following agreeing verb to add an agreeing pronominal prefix.

 

Examples

- Lôkhu batân, “[The] bent road”.

- Batâna lôkhu, “[The] road is bent”.

- Dulgu balîk, “[The] black ships”.

- Balîka dulgî, “[The] ships are black”.

 

- Anadûnê zirân, “Númenor that is beloved”.

- Bêthîya saphadânî, “[The] words are understood”.

- Zâina phazagânî yakallabâ […], “[The] lands which are conquered [they] fell”.