Language Structure Problems

Manzanic

Morpheme Designations

Note we cannot tell from these data which of these morphemes are bound and which free. We will therefore write each with it's hyphen in place, indicating that, as far as we know, the color terms and other forms are attached with the colors first. We do not yet know if these are compound words (two roots attached) or if one or the other morpheme is a derivational affix. Note that I have also organized the data to some extent, placing the color terms together.

lu- green
ski- brown
tat- gray
gal- black
nui- blue
ku- yellow
tu-red

-ana lower surface or plane (ground)
-ki sky or upper surface or plane
-pi appleleaf
-ak bird
-jum apple

a. How might my apple tree say 'ripe apple'?
tu-jum
red-apple

b. How might she refer to a carpet of dandelions?
ku-ana
yellow-ground

c. What is happening if she mentions the word 'luki'.
lu-ki
green-sky
Possibly a bad storm or some weather disturbance that makes the sky appear green: or she's been chopped down and so the green grass looks like the upper surface... the sky?

d. What has happened if she tells me she has a friend with 'galpi'?
gal-pi
blaock-appleleaf
Possibly, the leaves have been singed (blackened) or some disease has blackened the leaves?