specialty suffix- yu

[Ayzìsìt Alenantang]

why "toruk makto" and not "toruk maktoyo"?
the verb "makto" is "ride", so "toruk makto" is "toruk ride" or "ride a toruk", and the title is for a "toruk rider", isn't it?

[Doolio]

in addition, it would maybe be wise to put toruk into genitive - torukyä maktoyu - toruk's rider, that is 'the rider of the toruk'. because "toruk rider" is pretty much an english idiom.

concerning your question - we don't know. the guess is that it is probably some formal title for toruk riders, and not litteral translation.

[Tskxäozì Ewaoe]

Yeah, well there are exceptions. Makto may be able to mean rider itself.
Things are still kinda fuzzy XD

[Plumps]

I have a similar question that maybe fits best in here.

If -yu is the agent suffix why do we have a word like leader as eyktan? ... or is that not the male suffix -an? Just noted that while writing down, because it seemed to me eyktan would have been derived from eyk - to lead plus male suffix -an ... but that doesn't seem to be the case.

If I didn't know there was a specific word for leader I would have combined it out of eyk + yu => *eykyu

Ideas? Comments?

[Doolio]

maybe 'eyktan' simply didn't derive from anything:)
or, at least, not directly. or it was simply twisted in shape through time...

[Ayzìsìt Alenantang]

in addition, it would maybe be wise to put toruk into genitive - torukyä maktoyu - toruk's rider, that is 'the rider of the toruk'. because "toruk rider" is pretty much an english idiom.

concerning your question - we don't know. the guess is that it is probably some formal title for toruk riders, and not litteral translation.

Toruk's Rider is wrong because it suggests there is only one toruk in the world, or that Toruk is somone's name, and you rode it.

[Doolio]

yes, in english it is. but, maybe not so in na'vi. for example, in my language that wouldn't be the case. we are all guessing pretty much here, so your point is well taken.
maybe "toruk maktoyu" is correct, that's the reason i italicised 'maybe' in my post:)

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