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Re: [saweli] quote of the day - elaborated

In a message dated 6/6/2007 8:38:54 AM Central Daylight Time, sts@hidden.email writes:


su - classifier "performance attribute"
gal - modifier "deserving"
nda - ?
su + gla + nda + s + u = "opportunity"

What would a word like "suglas" mean? Are stems like "sugla-" inherently
an adjective and a "suglandas" cannot be "suglas"?


Words with classifiers "su"/"su'a" designate attributes, i.e., qualities.  Therefore the basic form will usually be an adjective.  The usual noun form will have the quality suffix "da".
A noun of these classifiers without the quality suffix designates a prototypical entity having that quality, not the quality itself.   

("gla" is the only valid form of the modifier; "gal" is a sort-order artefact.)

stevo