Re: Plural marking.

[Andrew Smith <hobbit@mail.earthlight.co.nz>]

The rule of thumb I'm working with at the moment is if the noun ends with
a vowel or a vocalic consonant (usually -l and -r) then use -n.  If a noun
ends with a consonant other than silent -f then masculine nouns infix -o-
and feminine nouns infix -a- before the -n.  If a noun ends in a silent -f
then the -f elides, if the preceding vowel is e,i,o,u,y then it is marked
with a teithith and is pronounced long, if the preceding vowel is a, then
it becomes the diphthong aw.

- andrew.

(I see your St. Perran's University and raise you one University of
Glastein, est. 1259.)

Life is short, so am I...

On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Padraic Brown wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Now that we've got the plural marker business sorted out; one Question
> looms.  Should this marker (-n) be implemented on, for lack of a better
> term, the bare root; or will Brithenig build nominal stems.  Thumbing
> through the Glossarium Britonum Linguae (recently published by St. 
> Perran's University at Trurow, in Co. Duneint) Brithenig seems to have
> gobs of nouns that end in consonants and consonant clusters.  How shall we
> deal with tacking the -n on?  Shall we have words like llo fangn and llo
> ffeiln or llo geminn?  From the Kernu perspective, of course, this would
> be just like the Standard speakers -- make things infinitely harder to
> pronounce than they already are!  If we decide nominal stems; there would
> be the wee task of rooting through all the extant Brithenig nouns and
> figuring out what stem class they're derived from and formulating the new
> classes.
> 
> Cheers,
> Padraic.
> 
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