NOUNS
These are substantive and adjective. Both may be grouped [[10]]in the following classes: primitive, diminutive, figurative, verbal, compound, derivative, proper, common, positive, comparative, superlative, cardinal, ordinal, partitive, distributive and collective. Nothing particular needs be said about the primitive.
DIMINUTIVE
Examples:
| PRIMITIVE | DIMINUTIVE | |
| baláy | (house) | balaybálay |
| saróual | (trousers) | sarouálay |
| carahà | (frying-pan) | caraháay |
| balóto | (little boat) | balotóhay |
As is seen, the diminutive is formed by the repetition of the primitive or by adding to the latter the affix ay or hay.
The primitive is repeated when it has not more than two syllables. As,
from
| dáhon | (leave), | dahondáhon, |
| cáhoy | (tree), | cahoycáhoy. |
The affix ay or hay is added when the primitive has more than two syllables; ay being used in cases where the noun ends with a consonant, or a vowel with a grave or angular accent; and hay being employed when the primitive ends with a vowel otherwise accented or non-accented or a vowel that is pronounced separately from the consonant preceding it, or is preceded by more than one consonant. As,