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PREFIXES.
There are also prefix-syllables which never occur separately and are not contractions of other words. The following are the most important of these inseparable prefixes:
Ne-, negativ, or contrary; un-, in-, dis-, non-, -less;
neflen, enemy (unfriend); nelab, want (opposit of lab, possession); det, right [hand]; nedet, left; nedanik, ungrateful; nebin, non-existence.
Le-; intensiv; very, highly, chief, arch; legudik, very good; legletik, very great; lebijop, archbishop; lezif, large city (glezif is a capital). Gle- indicates the highest or most important of its kind.
Lu-, small, insignificant, bad or contemptible. This prefix is frequently used where in English we use different words. Beg, a request, lubegel, a beggar, mendicant; lufat, a step-father; lak, a lake, lulak, a pond; sanel, a physician, lusanel, a quack; sölel, a ruler, lusölel, a tyrant; vomik, feminin, luvomik, effeminate.
(See suffix -il for a list of augmentativs and diminutivs.)
Ge-, back, re-; gepük, reply; gekipön, to keep back.
Be- is said to strengthen the meaning of the radical; it frequently means to cause or confer the thing expressed by the radical.
Da- denotes the completion of an action or the attainment of an object.
SUFFIXES. Some suffixes are formed by cutting off the beginnings of nouns.
From mul, month. -ul as a termination for the names of months. There are two sets of names for the months: one derived from the numerals, the other from the Roman names,—
| January, February, March, April, May, June, |
balul telul kilul folul lulul mälul |
or or or or or or |
yanul. febul. mäzul. apul. mayul. yunul. |
July, August, September, October, November, December, |
velul jölul zülul balsul babul batul |
or or or or or or |
yulul. gustul. setul.otul novul dekul. |
