Translation
one smallest fragment of the root
Examples
ojn .
I have only a few coins in my pocket.
oj .
Crumbs lay on the table.
o .
A spark leapt out of the fireplace.
oj silente.
The first snowflakes fell silently.
o signifon.
Every word element has its own meaning.
-er- is the exact reverse of --: it cuts a mass or a whole down to one of its smallest bits. gives o, a coin; gives o, a crumb; gives o, a spark; gives o, a snowflake. Always a noun in -o.
The trap is that the fragment is the natural unit, not merely a small piece. A o is a crumb, whereas a slice you cut yourself is a panpeco, so reach for -er- only when the thing genuinely comes in grains. Nothing in the top thousand words ends in -ero by suffix, and plenty end in it by accident: , , , , and are all single roots.
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