Cisclass

These tend to derive words within a class, i.e.: a noun from a noun, or a verb from a verb.

The augmentative -aku ・あく is most often attached to nouns to reference something large or important. It is rarely used for people.

The diminutive -ini ・いに is used to form words which reference something small or unimportant. When used with animate nouns, it creates a word for the young of non-sapient creatures. However, with sapient creatures, this word is obscene.

The honorific -fi べ confers a nuance of sacredness upon a base word.

The pair -tu’i とい and -da だ are used to highlight the positive and negative aspects of a word, respectively.

Nominal suffixes

These derive nouns from other nouns.

The above table shows the suffixes used for deriving nouns between different animacy classes.

An animate noun is derived from an inanimate noun by the suffix -rra っら.

Both -sa さ and -ri り derive an animate noun from an abstract noun, however, these are not predictable. For instance, note the difference between diss·sa でっすさ youth and dissuri でっすり stranger. Other examples are:

The -ri り suffix also denotes people from a particular place.

The suffix -di で derives an inanimate noun from something abstract, and -ja ぢ does the opposite.

The suffix -li え derives nouns which are somehow distinct from their stem.

The names of parts of the body are derived using -kku っく on either nouns or verbs.

The animate giver of the inanimate or abstract base is denoted by -mi み.

Quasi-suffixes

Some nouns are so generic when forming compounds that they tend to end up acting as suffixes.

Verbal suffixes

These are only applied to verbs.

The suffix -ni に is used to derive inceptive verbs.

The suffix -ulu ・うを denotes reversal of an action, and can only be applied to stem verbs.

The augmentative -ss·su っさす is used specifically for verbs.

Auxiliary Infix

The infix -ar- is placed before the final vowel of auxiliaries, and denotes an end to the action described by the sentence.