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• … nate kinship terms and animals. Similar expressions are found in Mainstream Songhay. In Tadaksahak, only one adjective is found in this kind of compound nouns, beer-í ‘big’, e.g. (110) Noun-adjective compounds grandmother (Lit: big mother) nana béer-i mother be.big-ADJZR baba béer-i grandfather (Lit: big father) father be.big-ADJZR The other forms correspond to actual verbs. (111) Noun-verb compounds naná ceená maternal aunt (Lit: little mother) mother be.small naná fumbú ste …

  Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 134

• … rate high frequency adjectives with suffix -i under (a) and suffix -u under (b) (152) Songhay derivation a) b) verb ʒen gloss to be old adjective ber to be big beer-í qoq to be dry qooɣ-í ṇas to be fat ṇaas-ú baq to be broken baaq-ú ʒeen-í Three Songhay cognates use no segmental derivational morpheme to serve as noun modifier, viz. the basic color terms ‘white’, ‘black’ and ‘red/brown’.

  Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 152