Re: Gerunds and Entities
Rob Zook 
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 16:13:38 -0600

At 07:18 PM 11/9/97 -0600, Saul wrote:
>To make
>an "entity" or a noun from this "action/state" probably requires
>making it a gerund though. Currently, the gerund suffix is "-at"
>which, unfortunately, is also the genitive or possessive suffix. So I
>wonder now if anyone would mind if we change the gerund suffix to
>"-te." Doing so would have the side benefit of partly translating the
>government bodies from _Spock's_World_. If we do this, "linguistics"
>might be
>
>	pralakhute
>
>and other fields of study could be similarly named.

Makes some sense to me, although I'm not sure what "gerund" means.

>Anyway, I couldn't find in the lexicon a word that would do for
>"department" or "division" or "that which is a distinct part of
>something larger." There are plenty of words dealing with separation
>in a more severe sense -- like "outcaste" -- but that's not what I'm
>after. So we'll just have to make something up, like... /ngox/. So
>"linguistics department could be
>
>	pralakhute ngox
>
>How does that strike you?

Works for me. 

Rob Z.