Meaning of formantia | Babel Free

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“Such criteria are either sound variations in the words themselves, or the addition of formantia, i.e. suffixes or auxiliaries which define them as being true verbs (as opposed to nouns) or nouns (as opposed to verbs).”

“These facts then clearly evidence such elements as enclitical particles which exercise certain morphological and/or syntactical functions, but which have not yet developed into actual suffixes obliged to conform to sound-harmony and the general accentuation pattern. Some elements of this type are the formantia of the cas. compar. in -däg, and the cas. aequat. (prosecut., mensurat., terminat.) in -ča/-čä in the nominal category, and the formans of the negative aspect in -ma-/-mä- in the verbal category.”

“Superficially based on *temeen ‘camel’, but possibly rather connected to *tebene ‘pack needle’. The suffixes are formantia with unknown function.”

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