<A NAME="p047"></A>name, nem and nemön a reward and to reward, mesed and mesedön. In this case we add the syllable -ön as all indication that the same words are used as nouns and as verbs. But if -ön or -ik be enclosed in parenthesis we mean that a slight but obvious change is made in passing from one English part of speech to another.
Any verb may form a noun in am, which expresses the action of the verb, like our words in -tion for example,
plepalön, to prepare, plepalam, preparation.
Almost any verb may form a noun in el, which expresses the doer of the action, as plepalel, a preparer; studön, to
study, studel, a student.
EXAMPLE OF DERIVATION
(From Kerckhoff’s Complete Course.)
Pük, language, speech ; pükik, linguistic, pertaining to language ; pükatidel, language teacher ; pükapök, defect of speech ; pükön, to speak ; pükönabid, pükönamod, manner of speech ; motapük, mother tongue ; volapük, universal language.
Pükat, oration ; pükatil, little speech ; [pükatel, orator ; ] telapükat, dialogue.
Pükav, philology ; pükavik, philological.
Püked, saying ; pükedik, sententious ; pükedavöd, proverb ; pükedavödik, proverbial ; valapüked, motto.
Pükel, orator, speaker ; pükelik, oratorical ; möpükel, polyglot, speaker of many languages.
Püköf, eloquence ; püköfik, eloquent ; püköfav, rhetoric ; püköfavik, rhetorical.
Pükot, talk ; pükotik, talkativ ; okopükot, soliloquy.
Bepük, discussion ; bepükön, to discuss.
Bipük, preface.
Gepük, answer ; gepükön, to answer.
Lepük, assertion, affirmation ; lepükön, to assert, to affirm.
