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====Nouns==== | ====Nouns==== | ||
====Verbs==== | ====Verbs==== | ||
Old Eevo prefixes remain productive in Modern Eevo. Among them is the causative affix ''for-'', which was formerly only found in some frozen "causative" verbs but is gaining productivity in modern Eevo. | Old Eevo prefixes remain productive in Modern Eevo. Among them is the causative affix ''for-'' (from a preposition meaning "through"), which was formerly only found in some frozen "causative" verbs but is gaining productivity in modern Eevo. | ||
====Adjectives==== | ====Adjectives==== | ||
*''-flen'' /-fʟɛn/ is an adjectival suffix with the same meaning as Japanese -rashii: it means "like an X is supposed to be" or "like a typical X". The suffix comes from Old Eevo compound adjectives of the form ''X-fheileán'' "worthy of the name X". Some words with the suffix have undergone semantic shifts, e.g. carflen /ˈkʰarfʟɛn/ "humane, moral, ethical" (from Old Eevo car "human" + -flen). | *''-flen'' /-fʟɛn/ is an adjectival suffix with the same meaning as Japanese -rashii: it means "like an X is supposed to be" or "like a typical X". The suffix comes from Old Eevo compound adjectives of the form ''X-fheileán'' "worthy of the name X". Some words with the suffix have undergone semantic shifts, e.g. carflen /ˈkʰarfʟɛn/ "humane, moral, ethical" (from Old Eevo car "human" + -flen). | ||