A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

10 Derivational morphology
(70) bahás
bahá-s
evil-adjz
‘evil person’
almatj
almatj
person\nom.sg
[pit090926.13m40s]e
In addition, the nominalized form bahá-k ‘evil’ can be further derived into an
adjective bahágis ‘painful’ as in (71).
(71) bahá-k → bahá-gi-s ‘painful’
evil-nmlz evil-nmlz-adjz [0102]
However, as pointed out in detail in §7.1 through §7.3, not all adjectives follow
this pattern. In fact, based on the current data, the -s suffix marks attributive
adjectives (as in (70)) and as well as predicative adjectives, and, synchronically,
it is not considered to be productive for either attributive or predicative forms at
all.
10.3.2 Ordinal numeral derivation with -át
Numerals, a sub-category of adjectivals (cf. §7.9), are subject to derivation. The
basic ordinal numerals can be derived by applying the derivational suffix -át
(or its allomorph -et) to the respective cardinal numeral, although the forms vuostas
‘first’ and mubbe ‘second’ are suppletive. Ordinal derivation is discussed in
§7.9.1.1 in more detail, including a comparison of cardinal and ordinal numbers
in Table 7.7 on page 144.
10.4 Adverbial derivation
Adverbs are not common in the corpus (as opposed to other word classes and
phrase types with adverbial functions), but do appear to be derivable from an
adjective base using the suffix -git. This is dealt with in more detail in §9.1.1.
10.5 Summary of derivational morphology
Table 10.2 on the facing page provides an overview of the derivational morphology
discussed in this chapter.
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