{"id":129,"date":"2011-01-21T06:47:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T05:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/?p=129"},"modified":"2011-12-09T05:38:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T04:38:21","slug":"high-eolic-word-of-the-day-ngiyel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"High Eolic word of the day: ng\u00c3\u00adyel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/W_HE_025_ngiiyel.mp3\">ng\u00c3\u00adyel<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (noun), accusative form <strong><em>ng\u00c3\u00adya<\/em><\/strong>: sand.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>ng\u00c3\u00adyel<\/strong>-ut cutt\u00c3\u00bas ca-rav\u00c3\u00a1camec<\/em><br \/>\n<small>sand-DEF exist.IMPERF.NON1 my-shoe.INESS<\/small><br \/>\n&#8220;there is a grain of sand in one of my shoes&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are two interesting aspects to the word for &#8216;sand&#8217; in High Eolic. First, it is an inherently mass noun, meaning that using it with the definite suffix produces the meaning &#8216;a unit of&#8217; (as in the example above) &#8211; in the case of sand, the appropriate unit is a grain of sand. Second, it belongs to a class of nouns (most of which end in <em>-l<\/em>) that have an irregular accusative form. Thus, rather than *<em>ng\u00c3\u00adyelal<\/em>, the accusative form of <em>ng\u00c3\u00adyel<\/em> is <em>ng\u00c3\u00adya<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>m\u00c3\u00a1r up\u00c3\u00a1vam <strong>ng\u00c3\u00adya<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<small>he\/she move.IMPERF.TRANS sand.ACC<\/small><br \/>\n&#8220;he\/she is moving sand [around]&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ng\u00c3\u00adyel (noun), accusative form ng\u00c3\u00adya: sand. ng\u00c3\u00adyel-ut cutt\u00c3\u00bas ca-rav\u00c3\u00a1camec sand-DEF exist.IMPERF.NON1 my-shoe.INESS &#8220;there is a grain of sand in one of my shoes&#8221; There are two interesting aspects to the word for &#8216;sand&#8217; in High Eolic. First, it is an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/?p=129\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[25,9,11,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}