Talk:anááʼ

Derived terms

I really don’t think it is necessary to include possessed forms as derived terms. Virtually every noun can be possessed by all the different grammatical persons and numbers, such as shinááʼ (my eye), ninááʼ (your eye), yinááʼ (his/her/its eye), nihinááʼ (our/your eye), hanááʼ (their eye), anááʼ (someone’s eye), and so on. It’s only that certain nouns, especially relatives and body parts, are inalienable and must always be possessed. Anááʼ is an example of an inalienable noun, meaning someone’s eye or something’s seed. There is no unpossessed form *nááʼ. But the various possessed forms otherwise are unremarkable and don’t really merit mention as a derived term. —Stephen (Talk) 13:15, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I will defer to you on this one--I was just following the normal practice I'd do with any other language, with the end result that users can easily and quickly get to closely related terms. Latin, Sanskrit, and Slavic languages seem to have huge declension tables so maybe that would be the way to go? 71.66.97.228 20:18, 9 November 2010 (UTC)