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becka_suttonAs I mentioned in this post many (but not all) comparatives such as big and small are handled by adjectives in English are infixes in this language (in much the same way that we sometimes use -let as a suffix to indicate smallness in English)
Other adjectives are seperate words and appear immediately after the noun and behave very like nouns but not exactly. They decline for case (to match the noun they describe) but do not take a gender (which I suppose makes them a noun class as well).
That decided we can do our first five colours.
Black - kratak (also means dark)
White - ekra (also means clear)
Red - amad
Green - yonet
Yellow - orem
No, it's not a coincidence that ekra is the root of water and amad is the root of blood/honey they name the colours by association. So these words might literally be seen as the adjective class forms of night (kratakago), water, blood/honey, leaf (yonetpʰak) and ripe grain (orempʰak) respectively.
Yes they think of night as spirit, they can't touch it but its certainly real so it makes sense to them.
Other adjectives are seperate words and appear immediately after the noun and behave very like nouns but not exactly. They decline for case (to match the noun they describe) but do not take a gender (which I suppose makes them a noun class as well).
That decided we can do our first five colours.
Black - kratak (also means dark)
White - ekra (also means clear)
Red - amad
Green - yonet
Yellow - orem
No, it's not a coincidence that ekra is the root of water and amad is the root of blood/honey they name the colours by association. So these words might literally be seen as the adjective class forms of night (kratakago), water, blood/honey, leaf (yonetpʰak) and ripe grain (orempʰak) respectively.
Yes they think of night as spirit, they can't touch it but its certainly real so it makes sense to them.
