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EXAMPLE OF DERIVATION.
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name, nem and nemön; a reward and to reward, mesed and mesedön. In this case we add the syllable -ön as an indication that that same words are used as nouns and as verbs. But if -ön or -ik be enclosed in parenthesis we mean that a slight but obvious change is made in passing from one English part of speech to another.

Any verb may form a noun in am, which expresses the action of the verb, like our words in -tion; for example plepalön, to prepare, plepalam, preparation.

Almost any verb may form a noun in el, which expresses the doer of the action, as plepalel, a preparer; studön, to study, studel, a student.

EXAMPLE OF DERIVATION. (From Kerckhoff's Complete Course.)

Pük, language, speech; pükik, linguistic, pertaining to language; pükatidel, language teacher; pükapök, defect of speech; pükön, to speak; pükönabid, pükönamod, manner of speech; motapük, mother tongue; volapük, universal language.
Pükat, oration; pükatil, little speech; [pükatel, orator;] telapükat, dialogue.
Pükav, philology; pükavik, philological.
Püked, saying; pükedik, sententious; pükedavöd, proverb; pükedavödik, proverbial; valapüked, motto.
Pükel, orator, speaker; pükelik, oratorical; möpükel, polyglot, speaker of many languages.
Pükof, eloquence; püköfik, eloquent; püköfav, rhetoric; püköfavik, rhetorical.
Pükot, talk; pükotik, talkativ; okopükot, soliloquy.
Bepük, discussion; bepükön, to discuss.
Bipük, preface.
Gepük, answer; gepükön, to answer.
Lepük, assertion, affirmation; lepükön, to assert, affirm.
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