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# Derivational Morphology
## Nominalization
In all following transformations, where a noun has unknown gender mark *-y*,
it is replaced with an ambiguous, idiomatic gender or the gender of a closest
noun that defines it.
In the former case, such words would be listed in the dictionary.
| category | transformation | examples |
|----------|----------------|----------|
| action | -vy → -se | (think) → (the act of thinking) |
| actor | -vy → -nersy | (teach) → (teacher) |
| result | -vy → -mensy | (think) → (thought), (draw) → (drawing, picture) |
| diminutive| -sy → -zìssy | (dog) → (puppy), (kid) → (baby), (human) → (dwarf) |
| augmentative| -sy → gáchsy| (human) → (giant) |
## Verbalization
| category | transformation | examples |
|----------|----------------|----------|
| reverse | V → réc-V | (do) → (undo)|
| do again | V → bàn-V | (think) → (rethink) |
## Compounds
TBD
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