{"id":77,"date":"2022-03-07T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2022-03-07T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T01:56:09","slug":"a-nominalized-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/07\/a-nominalized-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nominalized Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently made a discovery regarding nominalized nouns in Lortho. Nominalization is achieved by adding the prefix <strong>mo<\/strong>&#8211; to the verbal root followed by the gender suffix [one of &#8211;<em>i<\/em>, &#8211;<em>u<\/em>, &#8211;<em>a<\/em> for <em>masc<\/em>, <em>fem<\/em>, <em>neut<\/em>, respectively]. The gender is normally assigned by the gender of the &#8220;doer.&#8221; However, I uncovered a nominalized verb with a <em>fixed<\/em> gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The word to which I am referring is the nominalized verb: <strong>khathuro<\/strong> [k\u02b0a.\u02c8t\u02b0u.\u027eo] <em>v<\/em>. \u00b7 fight, battle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally, this would be nominalized as either <strong>mokhathuri<\/strong> or <strong>mokhathuru<\/strong>; but what I found was the nominalized form was only feminine: mokhathuru. This opens so many questions, like: Why is it only feminine? Who did the Lorthoans fight? How many wars were fought? Where there only female warriors? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the more light shed onto this topic the more we will learn about the Lorthoans and their warriors. It seems they weren&#8217;t purely the peachy peaceful type as previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently made a discovery regarding nominalized nouns in Lortho. Nominalization is achieved by adding the prefix mo&#8211; to the verbal root followed by the gender suffix [one of &#8211;i, &#8211;u, &#8211;a for masc, fem, neut, respectively]. The gender is normally assigned by the gender of the &#8220;doer.&#8221; However, I uncovered a nominalized verb with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/07\/a-nominalized-discovery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Nominalized Discovery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,2,16,8,4,6],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art-of-discovery","tag-conlang","tag-culture","tag-language","tag-lortho","tag-world-building","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}