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Dis prefix for nouns?

de Alkanadi, 2014-julio-21

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Alkanadi (Montri la profilon) 2014-julio-21 08:11:05

Can the Dis prefix be used with nouns? For example, disdomo would mean a divided house? Or, maybe dissentoj could mean being bipolar, having an emotional breakdown, or maybe having multiple feelings at the same time?

Is Dis just for verbs only?

Also, can I say disflugi to describe how popcorn pops, or how fireworks work?

tommjames (Montri la profilon) 2014-julio-21 08:35:06

Alkanadi:Can the Dis prefix be used with nouns? For example, disdomo would mean a divided house? Or, maybe dissentoj could mean being bipolar, having an emotional breakdown, or maybe having multiple feelings at the same time?

Is Dis just for verbs only?
Good question.

IMO it can be used before nouns but only when the root of the noun is verbal (eg. disĵeto), or where some other class of root has been made verbal (eg. disvastiĝo).

I've never seen any use of dis- on a substantive root and I think that would be evitinda usage. PMEG says "DIS estas uzata nur antaŭ agaj vortoj".

Fenris_kcf (Montri la profilon) 2014-julio-21 08:52:17

As far as i know there are no rules about which affix can be applied to which raw word, so synthacically it should be correct, but i can't think of one single case where "dis-" before a raw noun would make any sense.

About "disdomo": The suffix "dis-" does not mean "divided" in the sense, that you want to use it here. The canonical meaning is "in different directions".

sergejm (Montri la profilon) 2014-julio-21 09:36:42

I have found in Tekstaro.com only one noun with dis- prefix, which doesn't have verb root: diseco. Here dis- acts as root itself. There are some words where dis- isn't prefix, for example: disĉiplo, distanco etc.

In mathematics dictionary I have found dis-aŭ. it means "xor" - exclusive "or".

patrik (Montri la profilon) 2014-julio-21 14:38:23

Alkanadi:Also, can I say disflugi to describe how popcorn pops, or how fireworks work?
Oh, certainly, it sounds just right, as far as popcorn is corcerned. But on fireworks, it seems off the mark, since fireworks fly and then disintegrate, which "disflugi" does not imply. Just my opinion, so I can be wrong on this.

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