The Ancestral Noun

The canonical Ancestral noun is  composed of three distinct elements:

1. A vocalic case marker circumfix
2. A consonantal semantic root
3. A vocalic state marker infix

In other words, each noun can be analyzed as V1 + CC + VV + CC + V1 where:

1. V1 = case marker (indicating the role of the noun in the sentence)
2. CC__CC = semantic root (indicating the lexical meaning of the noun)
3. VV = state marker (indicating the growth state  of the noun)

Every noun is introduced (marked) by one or more noun particles, indicating additional information about the noun.

An interesting feature of Ancestral is that every noun is in effect a “frozen” verb, that is a “being” at a particular moment in time.