Triparic Word Formation
Appearance
Affixes are categorized according to the part of speech they produce.
Asterisks indicate an affix which Shawn is proposing and not yet ratified by Carrie and Alan.
Noun-forming
Affix | Applied to | Purpose | Example |
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-ciãn | Verbs | The action or process itself; sometimes the result if the process is the "end in itself" | donen "to give" → doneciãn "giving, donation" |
-er | Verbs | Agent of the verb | dixen "speak" → dixer "speaker" |
-ist | Nouns, Verbs | Profession, vocation, philosophy | luden "to play" → ludist "professional player" |
-kin | Nouns | Young, offspring | cän "dog" → cänkin "puppy" |
-let | Nouns | Diminutive | pådd "house" → påddlet "small house, bungalow, cottage" |
-nes | Adjectives | State of being the adjective | rod "red" → rodnes "redness" |
Verbs | Patient/object of the verb French: -é (fr) m, -ée (fr) f; Italian: -ato m, -ata f; Spanish: -ado (es) m, -ada (es) f, Latin -atus, Esperanto -ato |
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Nouns | Ethnonyms English -(i)an, Esperanto -(an)o, German -er(in), French -ien(ne), Italian -ese, Portuguese: -ês, -ense; Spanish: -és, -ense (es) m, -esa f |
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Nouns | State of being English -ship; Dutch: -schap (nl); German: -schaft (de); Portuguese: -idade (pt) f; Romanian: -ie f, -itate f, -tate f, -ătate f; Spanish: -azgo (es) m, -dad (es) f |
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Verbs | Place where it is done English -arium, -ory; Portuguese -ário, French -oir(e); Latin -arium, -orium; Esperanto -ejo |
Adjective-forming
Affix | Applied to | Purpose | Example |
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-ic | Nouns | General purpose conversion to adjective | Triparia → triparic "Triparian" |
-esc | Nouns | Similar to the noun | Kalmont → Kalmontesc "like Kalmont" |
-in | Nouns | Made of | aqua "water" → aquin "made of water" |
-lãs | Nouns | Lacking | tap "head" → taplãs "headless" |
-vol | Nouns | Full of, having in abundance | chocolad "chocolate" → chocoladvol "full of chocolate" |
-isch | Adjectives | Similar to the base adjective, but not quite meeting the standard | rod "red" → rodisch "reddish" |
-axe | Verbs | Tendency to do the verb | quiren "to ask" → quiraxe "inquisitive" |
-eble | Verbs | Able to be affected by the verb | viden "to see" → videble "visible" |
Verb-forming
Affix | Applied to | Purpose | Example |
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Infinitive ending or other normal verb inflections | Nouns | Denominal verb: the action or event inherently linked to the noun | pådd "house" → pådden "to house" |
fe-en | Nouns, Adjectives | Process of becoming the noun or adjective | könig "king" → fekönigen "enthrone" |
Adverb-forming
Affix | Applied to | Purpose | Example |
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-lic | Adjectives | Basic adverbial form of the adjective | gross "large" → grosslic "largely" |
Sources (for ideas)
Nouns From Other Nouns
Purpose | English | German | Latin | French | Esperanto | Old Tri. |
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Act, condition, characteristic | -(i)(t)y, -mony (authority, victory, patrimony) |
-(t)ium, -tas, -monium, -(t)ia (auctoritas, victoria, auspicium, patrimonium) |
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Office | -ate (principate, shogunate) |
-at (Prinzipat, S(c)hogunat) |
-atus (senatus, potentatus) |
Adjectives From Verbs
Purpose | English | German | Latin | French | Esperanto | Old Tri. |
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Ongoing Condition | -bund, -cund | -bundus, -(c)undus (moribundus, fecundus) |
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State/Condition[1] | -id | -idus (frigidus, timidus, pallidus) |
- ↑ A lot of the Latin words of this type have nouns in -or: timor, pallor, etc.
Other suffixes not to miss
- -ology