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Okay, the way I see it, Ceqli needs four particles: 1. To become (Esperanto ig^i) 2. To cause (Esperanto igi) 3. To cease being (the opposite of #1) 4. To cause to cease (opposite of #2) Now, originally I had ho meaning become: Go ho dorm. I go to sleep, fall asleep. Go dormho. I go to sleep. And kaw meaning cause. Go kaw zi dorm. I cause you to sleep, put you to sleep. Go dormkaw zi. I put you to sleep. They can be used as suffixes, Esperanto style, or as words in their own right, a la English and Mandarin. I believe, tho, that when used as suffixes, the resulting compound will again form a pseudo-morpheme. Now, there isn't much possible difference between dormho and ho dorm that I can see, but something might develop. Now, I think we need two more words which will basically work this way: Go X dorm. I wake up (Go dormX) Go Y dorm zi. I wake you up (Go dormY zi) These would also apply thus. Go jiY da. I kill him. Also, they'd be good for words like undo, untie, undress, etc. Reactions, and suggestions for the forms of the words? -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/