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  7. Verbs can be formed from nouns by adding a prefix constructed by [first consonant of noun] + ii + nye: faalar—grief; fiinyefalar—to grieve.

  8. The participle is formed from the verb by adding a suffix-an or-en: thiinyethilel—to destroy, thiinyethilelen—destroyed. No stress change is involved because the participle is perceived as a verb form, and therefore stress remains on the first syllable:

  enye-ghanyii—time unit, small portion of a year (ghaanye)

  fiinyefalaran—mourning, mourned

  ghaanye—a Linyaari year, equivalent to about one and one-third earth years

  gheraalye malivii—Navigation Officer

  gheraalye ve-khanyii—Senior Communications Specialist

  Khleev—originally, a small vicious carrion-feeding animal with a poisonous bite; now used by the Linyaari to denote the invaders who destroyed their home world.

  khlevii—barbarous, uncivilized, vicious without reason

  Liinyar—member of the People

  linyarii—civilized; like a Liinyaar

  mitanyaakhi—large number (slang—like our “zillions”)

  narhii—new

  thiilir, thiliiri—small arboreal mammals of the Linyaari home world

  thiilel—destruction

  visedhaanye ferilii—Envoy Extraordinary

  9. Like all languages, Linyaari has a number of irregular constructions, each of which must be explained on a case by case basis.

  About the Authors

  Anne McCaffrey is considered one of the world’s leading science-fiction writers. She has won the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as six Science Fiction Book Club awards for her novels. Brought up in the United States, she is now living in Ireland with her Maine coon cats, her piebald mare, and a silver Weimaraner and declines to travel anymore. She is best known for her unique Dragonriders of Pern series.

  Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is the author of Channeling Cleopatra and the Nebula Award-winning The Healer’s War, as well as more than twenty science fiction and fantasy novels. She lives in the Puget Sound area of Washington State.

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  BOOKS IN THE ACORNA SERIES

  First Warning

  by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  Acorna’s Triumph

  by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  Acorna’s Rebels

  by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  Acorna’s Search

  by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  Acorna’s World

  by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  Acorna’s People

  by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  Acorna’s Quest

  by Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball

  Acorna

  by Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball

  See Also

  Anne McCaffrey’s The Unicorn Girl

  An illustrated novel featuring stories by

  Mickey Zucker Reichert, Jody Lynn Nye,

  and Roman A. Ranieri

  Credits

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  Cover design © by Saksa Art & Design

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