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Nouns with unmarked plurals and marked singulars are common. The singulative is marked with ''gü-'' in this case. | Nouns with unmarked plurals and marked singulars are common. The singulative is marked with ''gü-'' in this case. | ||
*ʔə-, pl. tsə- = humans, spirits | |||
*bu-, pl. də- = animals and other things that move on their own | |||
*p-, pl. əpi- = plants and mushrooms; things that grow | |||
*s-, pl. yüsj- = collections or large things: scʼaσ 'forest' | |||
*üt-, pl. pσə- = roughly round, compact objects | |||
*va-, pl. əwə- = long objects; tools, instruments, devices | |||
*tj-, pl. abi- = places, locations, slots | |||
*gü-, pl. 0- = various... including fluids (powder, water, liquids, fire, light, waves, wind, ...) | |||
*σi-, pl. gwi- = time periods; events; things that are temporary (e.g. ice) | |||
*t- = abstractions, manner, way | |||
*ti- < tiv- = infinitives, verbal nouns | |||
*bda- = -ness, -hood | |||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||