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On 2007-10-17 B Garcia wrote: > - Very young children: mocino/a, where -ino/a is the > preferred diminutive, like -ito/a is in Spanish in OTL. > In Rhodrese -ine, pl. -í is the preferred ending for deriving words for female beings (since the Latin first and second declension fall together in the plural. For diminutives -(c)elle/-(c)il is the preferred one for female beings, and -ett(e)/-et for things, probably -ot for male beings. Augmentatives are probably mostly by -au < -ONE, and pejoratives by -otx. It's not fully sorted out yet. /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*, c'est qu'elles meurent." (Victor Hugo)