Conlanging for the Opal Mask - Nouning that Verb

[becka_sutton]

(I should do a sneeze post for this lot soon).

In preperation for working out words for Language one I thought it would be a good idea to have some idea of how my nouns are structured as well.

So since I had that convenient verb just sitting there I decided to noun it.

So blanot is the verb dance (Hey I don't have an infinitive form... hmm) so presumably the root blan relates to dancing.

So to noun the verb I need to work out how this becomes a noun.

A thing to consider is that in this culture there are magical and non-magical dances. Magical dances will belong in the spirit gender and non-magical dances in the abstract so this gives me a chance to work out the suffixes for both of them.

So lets say -ago is the suffix for the spirit gender and -eka for the abstract gender.

• The word for a magical dance would be blanago.
• The word for a non-magical dance for entertainment would be blaneka.

But there's another two words we can get from this root and those would be the words for dancer. Now the word for human being will be in the sprit gender but words for people who do things will fall in the class that best fits what they do. So where you could use a an -er affix in English there is a -te- infix in Language One.

• A person who channels magic by dancing is blanteago.
• A mundane dancer is blanteeka (Phonotatics note - te-eka  with a slight hiatus between te and eka rather than -teka. It is likely this will fuse in the daughter languages)

Hopefully this all works because it's time to think of some other nouns.

Opinions?