Vocabulary Expansion

I).-Word Building:

A).Derivation:

1.- The ending vowel in any word has never semantic meaning.

2.-The affixes of the verb are always different to the ones of the noun and the adjective.

3.-To form verbs from nouns the suffixes are used only if necessary because usually the ending '-ar' is sufficient.

B).Compound Words:

They are formed by using two words to create a new word by juxtaposition,
the content word appearing last.

B).Euphony:

1.- When the suffix (or the suffixed word), finishes in 'a', 'e' or 'o', this open vowel will disappear, only when it is ‘i’ or ‘u’ this ending vowel remains:

‘fratal’ and ‘tetruple’, from ‘frate’ and ‘tetra’.

‘mial’ and ‘duesme’, from ‘mi’ and ‘du’.

2.- When the suffix (or the sufixed word), begins with a consonant, the vowel 'o' is added before it (euphonic epenthesis).

’semanofine’ from ‘fine’ and ‘semane’

’cardiologe’ from ‘cardie’ and ‘loge’

3.- At both cases, if an infinitive is prefixed, is deleted the ‘–ar’ morpheme.

'ideolingue’ from ‘idear’ and ‘lingue’

II).-Neologisms:

A). International Words:

1.-If there are Greek or Latin roots in scientific or technical language, these are taken into our language.

2.-Any other word of any other language, if they are internationally known can be taken as a neologism.

3.-In both cases they adapted to our morphology.

B) Proper Nouns:

They are transcribed as literally as possible,
and within brackets the phonetical transcription.

The stress is indicated with capital letter:

• Dante(dAnte)
• Shakespeare(xEspir)
• Rouseau(gusO)
• Cervantes(serbAntes)
• Fuster (fustEr)
• Sokrates (sOkrates)