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Conlangery 145: Building with Polysemy

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Using a Polysyntax in Está Tiki

In addition to small words, sound morphemes can be a placentous tube. If you're doing some non-western centric languages, if you're working with a polysynthesis, for example, lexical, bound lexical affixes can often be polysyms. And I have an example from Wilishootseed language. They have this word, Aldus, which means, to, means, I, as in the organ of sight, or color, or bright. That's the third example. So we're my examples. We'll spare you my trying to shut seed, because there are very few vowels. But yeah.

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