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Because Latejami has two classifiers for Energy-Nonliving, "cug" for count nouns and "xog" for mass nouns, Saweli has had "qe-" and "qi-", respectively.
I've merged these two classifiers into one in Saweli, with the mass interpretation as the default. To implement this change I added the suffix "bo" (count noun) to all the words with classifier "qe-", then changed all the "qi-" words to "qe-".
The word for 'sunlight, sunshine' was "ha'uhat", where "ha'u-" indicates a weather/atmospheric phenomenon, but I've moved it to classifier "qe-" (energy), which is where "qehat" ('sunray') was already.
This produced a conflict since "qehat" now had two meanings: 'sunshine, sunlight' vs. 'light, visible light'. To resolve this conflict, I added the root for 'sun' ("kiha-") to one of them, so the word for 'sunlight, sunshine' is now "qekyihat" (note the "y" to make the classifier "ki" into a modifier), and 'sunny' is its quality derivation "qekyihandak".
I also changed "qifutrut" ('radiation') to "qecut", for which the count form ('ray, beam') is now "qecunbot" as a result of adding "bo" to all the count nouns.
stevo