Patterns

CaCaC

Common noun pattern. Often (not always?) refers to the product or natural result of a verbal root, or a more concrete instantiation of the action itself. With certain nominal roots, this pattern can also give a more general meaning, although that cannot always be counted on.

jeCaCuC

Passive perfective of common instrumental applicative pattern jeCaaCaC.

Historically, the middle consonant was geminated. The reflex of this in the modern language is a short stressed vowel followed by a single consonant.

jeCaaCaC

Common instrumental applicative pattern. Has gerund in CüüCiC; passive perfective is jeCaCuC.

jeCCaC

One of the most basic verbal patterns. Has gerund in CiiCoC and passive perfective in jeCuCC.

Generally transitive and active. Derived dynamic passive form is jeCeeCeC.

jeCääCeC (pl. _jeCäCeeC_, dual _jeCäCeCet_)

Forms nouns referring to body parts that are long and stick out (i.e. arms, legs, fingers, etc.).

Obligatorily possessed.

äCCiiC

Augmentative. Probably also used for adjectival comparatives.

CeCC

Common noun pattern, usually denoting inanimate objects. Note the irregular plural CeCüüC.

CeCüüC

Irregular plural of CeCC.

jeCeeCeC

Dynamic passive form (i.e. "to become X") of jeCCaC and probably other transitive patterns as well. Defective, i.e. gerund and perfective are identical to those of the active form.

CiCeC

Common adjective pattern.

CiCuC

Common noun pattern, usually denoting animals, persons, or other animate beings.

CiiCoC

Gerund of jeCCaC (and possibly other basic verbal forms?).

CoCoC

Forms nouns that typically refer to groups, clusters, or collections of items. Forms "group of n" nouns (i.e. singleton, pair, triad) from numerical roots.

jeCCooC

Generic intransitive verb pattern. Passive perfective is yet undetermined; same with gerund.

Originally, this was probably jeCCawaC.

May sometimes have reciprocal sense?

jeCuCC

Passive perfective of jeCCaC (and possibly other basic transitive verbs).

CüüCiC

Gerund of the common instrumental applicative pattern jeCaaCaC.

jeCCoC (pl. _jeCCööC_, dual _jeCCoCot_)

Derives nouns referring to body parts that are round or can be made round or roundish — i.e. hands, feet, etc. — especially if they are at the end of a "stalk" (i.e. an arm, leg, finger, etc.). The stalk itself would be expressed with CääCeC most of the time.

Obligatorily possessed.

jeCCuC

Another common verbal pattern, again usually transitive but perhaps with a slightly different part of semantic space covered.

Passive perfective and gerund TBD.

Passive perfective may be in jeCuCuC?