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From: kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz (Paul J. Kriha)
Subject: Re: Is Turkish a new language?
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iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) wrote:

[...]

>(It is ironic that, when the agglutinative character of Hungarian is
>discussed, people like talking _elo"rela'thatatlansa'gairo'l_ `of its
>unforeseeabilities'.  :-)
>
>  _elo"re-_ `fore-'
>  _la't_    `see'
>  _-hat_    potential
>  _-atlan_  privative
>  _-sa'g_   nominalisation
>  _-a_      3Sg possessor
>  _-i_      plural possessum
>  _-ro'l_   delative
>
>Anyone have a Basque word of that sort ready?  :-))

I don't do Basque.  Here is Czech eqiuvalent instead:

nepr^edvi'datelnosti'ch      = of unforeseeabilities
toho nepr^edvi'datelnosti'ch = of its unforeseeabilities

  ne   + pr^ed  + vid+atel+nost + i'     + ch
  'un' + 'fore' + 'see+ability' + plural + of

Well, I can't do the 'its' in the same word.  :-)

Cheers,
Paul JK
