Word families
Shared-root derivation clusters — the words n-th derived from a single root morpheme, each derivation graded for confidence, with the look-alike homophones held out.
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- -ka 'transitivizer / direct causative' 10 members · 2 look-alikes
- -ke 'intransitivizer / middle (become, get)' 6 members · 1 look-alikes
- -ko 'not at all; contrary to expectation (antiphrastic)' 4 members · 2 look-alikes
- -nu 'have; be endowed with (proprietive)' 14 members · 2 look-alikes
- -po 'diminutive' 9 members · 0 look-alikes
- -se 'say / go (sound-verbalizer)' 8 members · 1 look-alikes
- ak '(reconstructed) small, weak' 8 members · 1 look-alikes
- cat 'tongue-click (expressive root)' 6 members · 0 look-alikes · 92 hits
- cis 'cry, weep' 38 members · 4 look-alikes · 2,400 hits
- cup 'sun / moon; (heavenly) light-body' 15 members · 0 look-alikes · 899 hits
- etu 'nose' 13 members · 5 look-alikes · 79 hits
- haw 'voice, sound' 15 members · 0 look-alikes · 9,749 hits
- kar 'make, do; harvest; be exposed to' 103 members · 2 look-alikes · 50,975 hits
- kas 'top / upper surface' 39 members · 3 look-alikes · 49,887 hits
- ki 'do' 32 members · 4 look-alikes · 24,533 hits
- kisar 'ear' 12 members · 0 look-alikes · 48 hits
- kor 'have, hold, possess' 112 members · 3 look-alikes · 48,082 hits
- kur 'shadow; figure → person' 10 members · 1 look-alikes
- kus 'pass through, go by way of' 6 members · 1 look-alikes
- menoko 'woman' 4 members · 0 look-alikes
- nak 'dulled, out of one's senses (reconstructed)' 6 members · 0 look-alikes · 171 hits
- ni 'tree, wood → *trunk / body' 19 members · 2 look-alikes · 2,134 hits
- niw 'effort, persistence (reconstructed)' 5 members · 3 look-alikes · 244 hits
- nota 'cheek' 5 members · 3 look-alikes
- notak 'blade, cutting edge' 3 members · 1 look-alikes
- nu 'hear, listen; sense, feel; be effective' 27 members · 1 look-alikes · 14,686 hits
- nukar 'see, look at' 31 members · 2 look-alikes · 6,387 hits
- oma 'be in / at (sg.)' 15 members · 5 look-alikes
- pak 'sin, blame, punishment (bound)' 8 members · 3 look-alikes
- pan 'faint, pale, weak; (with ko-) refuse' 3 members · 1 look-alikes · 182 hits
- pas 'run, dart' 6 members · 5 look-alikes
- pet 'river' 12 members · 0 look-alikes · 1,518 hits
- pi 'small stone / *stone tool → *pointed thing' 33 members · 0 look-alikes · 865 hits
- pis 'beach · one-by-one · bird-tail (pis-forms)' 10 members · 3 look-alikes · 814 hits
- pon 'small, young' 7 members · 0 look-alikes
- rak 'taste / smell of' 9 members · 4 look-alikes
- ram 'heart / mind' 20 members · 1 look-alikes · 2,622 hits
- ru- 'somewhat, half- (attenuative)' 10 members · 2 look-alikes
- rus 'fur; *temper (reconstructed sense)' 7 members · 1 look-alikes · 912 hits
- sak 'lack, not have (privative)' 13 members · 2 look-alikes
- san 'go down (sg.); come out seaward' 11 members · 1 look-alikes
- sapa 'head' 9 members · 0 look-alikes · 746 hits
- se 'say, utter; make the sound of' 24 members · 7 look-alikes · 8,292 hits
- sik 'eye' 15 members · 1 look-alikes · 487 hits
- sir 'land; appearance; weather' 130 members · 2 look-alikes · 4,495 hits
- suy 'sway, swing (CVC action root)' 7 members · 2 look-alikes · 3,030 hits
- ta 'gather, collect, dig up; draw water' 9 members · 2 look-alikes · 22,853 hits
- tek 'hand' 14 members · 0 look-alikes · 963 hits
- uy '(?) take, handle (hypothetical bound root)' 6 members · 1 look-alikes
- wen 'be bad, poor, no good' 58 members · 0 look-alikes · 4,363 hits
Auto-collected families unverified
Grouped automatically from the decomposition layer (dictionary-sourced analyses only) — derived data, not curated: memberships are unverified hypotheses; verify before citing. Roots that already have a curated family above are excluded.