Gender and Common Suffixes
Gender
Akath has three genders:
- Animate: used for all sentient beings, most animals and a few other words
- Inanimate concrete: originally used for concrete nouns. Usually end in fricatives.
- Inanimate abstract: originally used for abstract nouns. Usually end in -r, -l, -t, or -ë.
| Gender | Common Final Sound |
|---|---|
| Animate | vowels, s, n, m |
| Concrete | fricatives |
| Abstract | r, l, t, ë, n |
Grammatical Affixes
| Affix | Gender | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| -ezel | Abstract | nominalization of verbs |
Derivational Affixes
| Affix5 | Meaning | Genders |
|---|---|---|
| me- | Smaller or simpler version. | concrete, animate, abstract |
| -enas | Land or region related to something. | concrete |
| -ef | Something related to the base word (loosely defined). | concrete |
| -illo | Person related to something, usually because of occupation. | animate |
| -iz | An object used for some action. | concrete |