Talk:pra
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This is claimed to be an adjective, but praa is claimed to be derived from it by adding the adjective ending -a. Is there any evidence that this is used as a stand-alone adjective? If not, it should be deleted as a misanalysis of praa and praulo. Caveat: I don't speak Esperanto, so I could certainly be missing something. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:08, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Chuck Entz: The latest edition of the Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto claims that pra exists and lists it as a separate entry, also citing praa and praulo as derived terms. I assume this is so to have some sort of root, so that the suffixes -a and -ulo can function as normal. Jackchango (talk) 02:43, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
- This entry is malformed and should be deleted. «pra-» is a prefix which cannot function as a standalone word in Esperanto without a grammatical ending; the correct entry for the prefix is at pra-#Esperanto. The adjective derived from the prefix is praa. Audrey (talk) 19:58, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Deleted per the above. Perhaps the creator of the entry didn't understand the conventions of the PIV. Pra I is a prefix, Pra II is a 'selfstanding morpheme' (i.e., used as a root) that only ever occurs with a word-class suffix. This is routine for Esperanto, where all affixes can be used as roots, limited only by whether the result would be comprehensible. If pra were used by itself, it would not be an adjective, but a preposition, conjunction or the like. Possible in theory, but AFAICT not attested for this morpheme. kwami (talk) 22:16, 29 March 2021 (UTC)