7. Verbs can be formed from nouns by adding a prefix constructed by [first consonant of noun] + ii + nye: faalar—grief; fiinyefalar—to grieve.
8. The participle is formed from the verb by adding a suffix-an or-en: thiinyethilel—to destroy, thiinyethilelen—destroyed. No stress change is involved because the participle is perceived as a verb form, and therefore stress remains on the first syllable:
enye-ghanyii—time unit, small portion of a year (ghaanye)
fiinyefalaran—mourning, mourned
ghaanye—a Linyaari year, equivalent to about one and one-third earth years
gheraalye malivii—Navigation Officer
gheraalye ve-khanyii—Senior Communications Specialist
Khleev—originally, a small vicious carrion-feeding animal with a poisonous bite; now used by the Linyaari to denote the invaders who destroyed their home world.
khlevii—barbarous, uncivilized, vicious without reason
Liinyar—member of the People
linyarii—civilized; like a Liinyaar
mitanyaakhi—large number (slang—like our “zillions”)
narhii—new
thiilir, thiliiri—small arboreal mammals of the Linyaari home world
thiilel—destruction
visedhaanye ferilii—Envoy Extraordinary
9. Like all languages, Linyaari has a number of irregular constructions, each of which must be explained on a case by case basis.
About the Authors
Anne McCaffrey is considered one of the world’s leading science-fiction writers. She has won the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as six Science Fiction Book Club awards for her novels. Brought up in the United States, she is now living in Ireland with her Maine coon cats, her piebald mare, and a silver Weimaraner and declines to travel anymore. She is best known for her unique Dragonriders of Pern series.
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is the author of Channeling Cleopatra and the Nebula Award-winning The Healer’s War, as well as more than twenty science fiction and fantasy novels. She lives in the Puget Sound area of Washington State.
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BOOKS IN THE ACORNA SERIES
First Warning
by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Acorna’s Triumph
by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Acorna’s Rebels
by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Acorna’s Search
by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Acorna’s World
by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Acorna’s People
by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Acorna’s Quest
by Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball
Acorna
by Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball
See Also
Anne McCaffrey’s The Unicorn Girl
An illustrated novel featuring stories by
Mickey Zucker Reichert, Jody Lynn Nye,
and Roman A. Ranieri
Credits
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