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Triparic Word Formation

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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
-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
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
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
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
-ic Nouns General purpose conversion to adjective Tripariatriparic "Triparian"
-esc Nouns Similar to the noun KalmontKalmontesc "like Kalmont"
-lãs Nouns Lacking tap "head" → taplãs "headless"
-vol Nouns Full of, having in abundance chocolad "chocolate" → chocoladvol "full of chocolate"
-in Nouns Made of aqua "water" → aquin "made of water"
-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
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
-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.
Act, condition, characteristic -(i)(t)y, -mony
(authority, victory, patrimony)
-(t)ium, -tas, -monium, -(t)ia
(auctoritas, victoria, auspicium, patrimonium)
Place -arium -arium
(aerarium, tabularium)
-plåx
(Schattenplåx)[1]
Office -ate
(principate, shogunate)
-at
(Prinzipat, S(c)hogunat)
-atus
(senatus, potentatus)
  1. This is an independent word for "place", so arguably this is not a suffix but part of compounds.

Adjectives From Verbs

Purpose English German Latin French Esperanto Old Tri.
Ongoing Condition -bund, -cund -bundus, -(c)undus
(moribundus, fecundus)
State/Condition[1] -id -idus
(frigidus, timidus, pallidus)
  1. A lot of the Latin words of this type have nouns in -or: timor, pallor, etc.

Other suffixes not to miss

  • -ology