Noun + si (+ yu?)

Started by suomichris, January 19, 2010, 03:11:03 PM

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suomichris

I'm wondering if we have any examples of a verbal phrase made with siyu that takes the -yu nominalizer?  I poked around, but didn't find anything...  Do we have, e.g., unil siyu 'dreamer'?

roger

tsamsiyu 'warrior' is AFAIK the only one

Taronyu

Quote from: roger on January 19, 2010, 08:07:31 PM
tsamsiyu 'warrior' is AFAIK the only one

It's also listed as a compound word, with no space, which suggests it may be anomalous.

Na'rìghawnu


Right.
There are quite a lot of compounds using "si" (like "eltu si" etc.), but as far as I know, nothing like "~~~siyu".

"tsamsiyu" is given as a single term. Allthough it may be the case, that there is also a separate noun+verb-compound "tsam si", that's not sure until now. It could be, that "make war" is a verb in Na'vi too, but maybe the Na'vi have got another expression for that and use the "make war" (tsam si) just as part of the noun "warrior".