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We need to get this jin/pro thing figured out before we go any further. I may be trying to be too Chinesey about word-building. Esperanto has several suffixes that djin and pro cover so far in Tceqli. (let's make it djin, as I think it's not going to be all that frequent a suffix after all) anto one who is doing the verb now. promenanto. That would be handled in Tceqli with pawdja (sa) djin. Not a compound. If for some reason you wanted a compound to mean that, it would be dopawdjadjin, or dogipawdjadjin. ulo one characterized by. Used mainly with adjectives, I believe. felichulo. At this point, I'd definitely make that into Tceqli as froydjin. -ist an individual professionally or avocationally occupied with the idea or activity defined by the root. This is what we've been using pro for, mostly, but as it does have a primary meaning of 'professional', I'm inclined to pick a closer analog of 'isto'. -ano member, adherent, participant of the root. English endings for the last two are pretty chaotic. Dentist, player, gunman. How about 'del' from Swedish, meaning 'member'. hamerizodel. American person. Given its form, it can take i and o for sexes. And I already have 'tcela' from Hindi for follower, disciple, believer. That could become simply 'tcel' with i and o endings, again. kristazotcel. a Xian. And here's an offbeat compound — 'tcelba' follower-thing, or -ism. kristazotcelba. Xianity. The thing of a Christ-follower. Now we're left with -ist. We can certainly say hilpro if we like. A health professional, or doctor. But we could go back to a previous idea, zer, with that Eo meaning "an individual professionally or avocationally occupied with the idea or activity defined by the root". Offhand, it seems like it would be a bound morpheme, but maybe someone will see a way to use it alone. Anyhow, that would produce forms like tsanzer, smerfazer, cinzer, kamzer, bolzer (speaker) bolsaizer (linguist). Is this making any sense, or am I overcomplicating it? Rex May rmay@hidden.email See some of my cartoons at: NOW UPDATED REGULARLY! |