Vuyamu - Roots

Roots

Vuyamu has 99 roots. Every word in Vuyamu is made up of one or more of those roots, without exception. There are no parts of words that are not roots. Every root is a single syllable.

There are four classes of roots: Pa (State), Ta (Thing), Ca (Doing), and Ka (Situation).

Pa roots describe or qualify a state of being, and they start with p, b, f, v, m, or w.

Ta roots are abstract or concrete nouns, and they start with t, d, s, z, n, r, or l.

Ca roots are actions, usually used as verbs, and they start with c, j, x, or y.

Ka roots have to do with location in space or time, and they start with k, g, or h.

The table below has all 99 roots in Vuyamu order. The translations are sometimes in ungrammatical English (e.g. "bigness") because the roots don't correspond exactly to English parts of speech. Also, it gives a bit of uniformity to the translations within each class. Vuyamu grammar is explained in the Structure section.

Root	Translation	Root	Translation	Root	Translation	Root	Translation
pa	state	ta	thing	ca	doing	ka	situation
po	possibility	to	nothing/zero	co	moving	ko	time
pu	reality/truth	tu	substance	cu	approaching	ku	place
pe	goodness	te	line	ce	leaving	ke	inside
pi	living	ti	point	ci	passing	ki	outside
ba	male	da	earth	ja	making	ga	side
bo	female	do	mountain	jo	using	go	up
bu	feeling	du	stone	ju	taking	gu	down
be	bigness	de	sky	je	holding	ge	front
bi	quickness	di	air	ji	having	gi	back
fa	light	sa	fire	xa	rendering	ha	left
fo	colour	so	water	xo	undergoing	ho	right
fu	form	su	plant	xu	changing	hu	middle
fe	sameness	se	person/creature	xe	starting	he	around
fi	otherness	si	body	xi	ending	hi	togetherness
va	similarity	za	one	ya	speaking
vo	type	zo	two	yo	wanting
vu	way	zu	three	yu	needing
ve	of	ze	four	ye	thinking
vi	instance	zi	five	yi	knowing
ma	each	na	six
mo	every	no	seven
mu	this	nu	eight
me	that	ne	nine
mi	some	ni	ten
wa	what	ra	part
wo	not	ro	head
wu	amount	ru	fruit
we	less	re	skin
wi	more	ri	fur
		la	eye
		lo	ear
		lu	nose
		le	mouth