Re: Esperanto and Interlingua

Prai Jei wrote:
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mal- negative prefix, no connotations of badness or evil
-ul- person to whom condition applies
-ej- place for
-o terminator to make a (singular nominative) noun

malsanulejo = "place for the unhealthy people".

Except that this kind of combination is just as much at home in
inflecting, especially IE, languages as it is in agglutinating ones.
In fact, the -ul, typologically a postposed article, plus the
nominativizer -o, are characteristics of the former category.

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