Orēlynna has a mostly agglutinating morphology that is pretty straightforward and transparent. In the sections below, nouns, pronouns, verbs and adjectives will each be illustrated separately, followed by a section of miscellaneous words and one of affixes. First, some general description of the syntax; more will appear under each section.* Word order in main and relative clauses is typically VSO. The plethora of morphological affixes allows for some freedom, however this basic organization is generally adhered to.
* Orēlynna has no indefinite article. The definite article appears directly before nouns in the nominative case, and attached to the noun in all other cases. Here, it always appears after all other affixes.
* There is no equivalent of “to be” in any tense; juxtaposition of subject and predicate indicate an understood copula.
NOUNS
can have one of 4 different classes: human, living non-human, inanimate, abstract. The human class usually distinguishes gender: male, female; but can also appear as a “generic” with its own form. Thus, there are 6 affixes denoting noun class, and they appear usually just after the stem. (See AFFIXES section.) Compound nouns are also possible and appear connected with a hyphen.
PRONOUNS
are more inflectional/lexical than agglutinating, so the ones needed are listed here. 1st and 2nd persons have forms for male and female, 3d person has forms for human (gender unspecified), and non-human living/inanimate/abstract
VERBS
are shown in “infinitive” form. -ayr and -eyr drop before tense/aspect/mode affixes are applied. These affixes are purely agglutinative. In order to form the verbs properly, there is a correct position for each affix, but for the purposes of the relay you don’t need to know them.
ADJECTIVES
follow their head nouns immediately and do not take affixes except for the plural.
OTHER
go - relative clause marker, has no syntactic or semantic value other than to mark the beginning of the clause.
hay - during; requires the dative case in the noun following.
hyrāmlā - at the same time as, while
ki - basic conjunction, means “and” by itself, can take affixes.
na - particle that appears immediately before unconjugated verbs.
sa - as a particle also indicates a relationship between nouns similar to the genetive case, much like “of” in English (2 liters of water).
ur - under; requires locative case in the noun following.
y - definite article (nominative case); appears as -y or -my affix in all other cases.
yr - on; requires the locative case in the noun following.
AFFIXES
-a- locative case marker
-da- human (generic class); also the 3rd person singular present perfective verb ending
-do- human (male class)
-đe- marks the word as an adjective
-e- dative case marker
-eþ- inanimate class
-ka- human (female class)
-[e]l- plural ending for nouns and adjectives
-eytel - 3d person non-human/inanimate/abstract, future, perfective verb ending
-lo- present habitual marder for verbs
me- optative mood marker
-na- abstract class
-oal - 1st person plural, present, perfective verb ending
-sa- genetive ending for nouns, appears on the possessor
-te- living non-human class
-tel- verb ending for present, perfective, 3d person plural
-ti- negation marker for adjectives and verbs
to- imperative affix
-va- equative case marker