✶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) | |||||||||
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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