From fish to a fountain – the antepenultimate post on Old Qári roots.
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One hundred and one Old Qári roots and their derivatives (part 3)
I’m not fully sure how many more parts I’m going to have to divide this up into before covering all 101 roots…
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One hundred and one Old Qári roots and their derivatives (part 2)
As I’ve worked through my list of roots, derived from the Leipzig-Jakarta list, I’ve realised how iterative this process can be. Starting out with only a handful of affixes, I can create dozens of words from one root, if I so wish. But new roots reveal new potential affixes, which can then be applied to earlier roots… Ultimately, the challenge here is knowing when to stop!
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One hundred and one Old Qári roots and their derivatives (part 1)
One of the first conlanging “texts” I discovered back before the internet was the Etymologies in The Lost Road and Other Writings, the fifth volume in the History of Middle Earth series. I used to pore over the roots and their derivations for hours. This series of posts, hopefully, captures some of the spirit that I found so beguiling back in 1996.
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Nonconcatenative morphology in Old Qári word-formation
A discussion of word-formation in Old Qári, along with a discussion of the phoneme inventory.
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