✶Ad. vowel-lengthening grammar.
When deriving a primitive word from a root, one of its basic vowels could be modified by lengthening: a, i, u to ā, ī, ū.
| Examples (vowel-lengthening) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kulbā | ← KULBA (subordinate-vowel-variation) | ✧ SD/425 | |||||||
| Kulbī | ← KULBI (subordinate-vowel-variation) | ✧ SD/425 | |||||||
| Kulbū | ← KULBU (vowel-suffixion) | ✧ SD/425 | |||||||
| kulāb | ← KULAB (subordinate-vowel-variation) | ✧ SD/425 | |||||||
| kulūb | ← KULUB (full-form) | ✧ SD/425 | |||||||
| kulīb | ← KULIB (subordinate-vowel-variation) | ✧ SD/425 | |||||||
| uklūb | ← UKLUB (vowel-prefixion vowel-suppression) | ✧ SD/425 | |||||||
| Kullūb | ← Kullub (consonant-doubling) | ✧ SD/425 | |||||||
| Kullīb | ← Kullib (consonant-doubling) | ✧ SD/425 | |||||||
| Kullāb | ← Kullab (consonant-doubling) | ✧ SD/425 | |||||||
Reference ✧ SD/423
Element In