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Re: 2 Re Word order (Was: Conlangs of mischief

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Friday, September 24, 2004, 19:44
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:40:11 +0200, Rodlox <Rodlox@...> wrote:
> (initially, I was puzzled...most of Proto-Indo-European seemed to be > prefixes (what with alll the - at- the- end- of- words- ).
Those aren't words or prefixes, but stems that endings must attach to. To make a parallel example from a natural language, one could make a Latin entry _gaud-_ "rejoice", covering all derivatives such as _gaudeo_ "rejoice", _gaudium_ "joy" etc. but also with the hyphen to note that _gaud_ itself is not a word. *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/

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