Inari Saami noun roots

1. Even-syllable stems

• â-stems
• á-stems
• o-stems
• a-stems
• ä-stems
• e-stems
• i stems
• u stems
• Four-syllabic even stems
• 2.1 Stems without consonant gradation
• 2.1.1 2nd syll vowel does not alternate (MO Ia)
• 2.1.2 2nd syll vowel alternates (MO Ib)
• 2.2 Stems without consonant gradation
  1. Ohter cases, all kind of changes
• LEXICON NounRoot is the basic lexicon, dividing into
• FirstComponent ; , nouns only in use as cmp first parts, and

• Noun ; , the noun list itself.

• LEXICON LastNouns pointed to from compounds.lexc

• heivi+CmpN/SgNomLeft+CmpNP/Suff+Sem/Dummytag:he^RVi4vi 2AIGI ;

• LEXICON FirstComponent
• pessijâš+N+Cmp/SgNom+Sem/Time:pessijâš Rnoun ;
• luáppijâš+N+Cmp/SgNom+Sem/Time:luáppijâš Rnoun ;

• …

• LEXICON MiddleNouns , referred to from compounding.lexc
• njune+N+Cmp/Sh+Sem/Body:njun Rnoun ;
• njälmi+N+Cmp/Sh+Sem/Body:njälm Rnoun ; tags_via_apertium

The split into different noun types according to Px

• LEXICON Noun is split into NounNoPx, NounPxKin, NounPx.
  • NounNoPx ; No flag, no Px
  • @P.Px.add@ NounPxKin ; TODO: add a flag @P.Nom3Px.add@ when we know how it works
  • @P.Px.add@ NounPx ; with a @P.Px.add@ flag, and with Px (= most nouns)

• LEXICON NounNoPx move here the nouns not taking Px.

• LEXICON NounPxKinFor the moment, kinship words go like NounPx and need not be moved here.

The standard list of noun stems

The nouns are reverse-sorted according to contlex, and thereafter according to stem.

• LEXICON NounPx here we put all normal nouns, as before

From corpus From missinglist

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This (part of) documentation was generated from src/fst/morphology/stems/nouns.lexc