Part III: Formation of Words

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• FORMATION OF SUBSTANTIVES
  • AGENCY
  • NAMES OF ACTIONS AND ABSTRACT SUBSTANTIVES
  • RESULT OF ACTION
  • INSTRUMENT OR MEANS OF ACTION
  • THE PERSON CONCERNED
  • GENTILES OR PLACE NAMES
  • PATRONYMICS
  • PLACE
  • DIMINUTIVES
• FORMATION OF ADJECTIVES
• LIST OF NOUN SUFFIXES
  • VOWEL SUFFIXES
  • SUFFIXES WITH LIQUIDS (λ, ρ)
  • SUFFIXES WITH NASALS (μ, ν)
  • SUFFIXES WITH LABIALS (π, φ)
  • SUFFIXES WITH DENTALS (τ, δ, θ)
  • SUFFIXES WITH PALATALS (κ, γ, χ)
  • SUFFIXES WITH SIGMA
• DENOMINATIVE VERBS
• COMPOUND WORDS
  • FIRST PART OF A COMPOUND
    • FIRST PART A NOUN-STEM
    • FIRST PART A VERB-STEM
    • FIRST PART A NUMERAL
    • FIRST PART A PREPOSITION OR ADVERB
    • FIRST PART AN INSEPARABLE PREFIX
    • LAST PART OF A COMPOUND
    • ACCENT OF COMPOUNDS
    • MEANING OF COMPOUNDS