The Ancestral Adnoun

The Ancestral adnoun typically precedes the noun it modifies and is normally introduced (or marked) by one or more classificatory particles.

In Ancestral, an adnoun is in origin a noun to which the head noun is being compared.

‘sky eyes’ i.e. ‘blue eyes’

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