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En réponse à ryumaou01 :
I'm not too familiar with Arabic, but I've read a few short pages about an Arabic-esque morphology for conlangs. So, if one were to do this, how would you list the words? For instance, if the word "base" was ntk which produced several other words, including; natak, netek, nitik, neotek, niatok, etc., would the word base be listed as the dicitonary entry, with all the supporting variations? Or, would each variation be listed separately? Or, are people used to looking up the base verb/noun to find all the variations under it?
Well, you should look at Arabic dictionaries to find out how it's done. But basically, your guess was correct. Languages with a Semitic structure (i.e. working with consonantal roots - what you call "base" -) sort their dictionaries according to the root indeed. So each root is a base entry of the dictionary, and then all the words derived from this root are sorted under it. And yes, it means that people have to find the root of the word (luckily, with Semitic languages it's usually not that difficult) to find it in the dictionary. In my "Teach Yourself Arabic", there was even a lesson about how to find the root of a word in order to look for it in a dictonary :)) .
Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.frYou need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.