NOUNS

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Nouns from VERBS and ADJECTIVES

Nouns can be constructed from verbs and adjectives.

A VERB is converted to a noun by the addition of the "-aa" or "-or" firesign suffix to the first person singular. The act is the root word; the aa-suffixed word is the action; the or-suffixed word is the person or thing who does the action. A gerund, a noun-verb, is formed, you may remember, by doubling the first person singular (see VERBS).

 *NOTE:  Often a polysyllabic word is doubled with only one of its syllables.  For example, pantangpantang may be shortened to pantangtang.
^#NOTE:  Although the grunger of the word will change with the tense, the suffixes of --aa and --or are not malleable.  Accept it.

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Nouns Converted to ADJECTIVES

(repeated in ADJECTIVES)
 

Suffix	English Equivalent	Noun	Adjective
	-ful  (full of)
	-able (ability)
	-less  (without)
	-ish, -y  (-like)
	-ous (quality of)

 

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Possession (see also at PRONOUNS)

Possession is indicated by the firesign suffix -~g~mm~ng

Example:

mingorigimming     mover's  (possessive singular)
mingsorigimming    movers' (possessive plural)

To establish all new nouns would be to write an entire
dictionary, which may be beyond the scope of my life.
 --Sumus Cacconus, D. E., said before there actually was any VOCABULARY.  

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