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Word Derivation

Stephan Schneider ("Stephan Schneider" <stefichjo@...>) on February 26, 2012

Ave,

after six years I took a look again at Glosa and I still like it, eve= n though I have some questions about the derivation of the Glosa roots them= selves. I hope you can give me hint or two=85

(I’m referring to the GID: h= ttp://www.glosa.org/gid/glen.htm and the derivation rules described in Wiki= pedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glosa#Word_Derivation_.5B6.5D .They don= ‘t seem to fit. Are there any derivation rules at all?)

We got “noktu”, “l= akti” and “fonta”, but the latin ablative forms are “nocte”, “lacte” and “f= onte”. What’s the reason for -u, -i and -a in Glosa?

We got “honora”, “kal= ori”, “odoro”, “amo”, but the latin ablative forms are “honore”, “calore”, = “odore”, “amore”. What’s the reason for “-ora”, “-ori”, “-oro”, “-o” in Glo= sa?

We got “kredi” and “rapi”, but the latin infinitives are “credere” and= “rapere”, so why it’s not “krede” and “rape” in Glosa?

Why is it “lekto” = and “tensio” instead of “lekti” and “tensi” when we have “nati” (from “lect= io”, “tensio” and “natio”)?

Why is it “grafo” (grafein/grafe), “strofi” (s= trofein/strofe) when we have “kine” (kinein/kine), “skope” (skopein/skope)?=

Why is it “imperi” for both “command” and “empire” when we have “nati” fo= r “birth” and “natio” for “nation”?

Why is it “bestia” instead of “besti” = when we have “glori” instead of “gloria”?

Why we have “alti”, “puri”, “bel= i”, “mali” when we have “karo” and “lento”?

Why we have “kali” instead of = “kalo”, when we have “termo”?

Why is it “stupidi” and “solidi” when we hav= e “tepido” (» “stupido”, “solido”), or even “frigi” and “splendi” (» “stu= pi”, “soli”)?

Why we have “kaso” and “stato” when we have “manu”, “gradu”,= “faktu”, “latu”?

Why we have “kardia” instead of “kardi”, when we have “h= istori”, “spongi”, “melodi”, “sofi”?

Why we have “spaci” instead of “spati= “, when we have “palati”?

I’m uncertain about greek nouns/adjectives with = -ika. There are “logika”, “fisika”, “tipika” and also “logi”, “fisio”, “tip= o”. I wouldn’t know what to expect

Regards, Stephan

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