title: Noun
aliases: [noun, nouns]
tags: [term]
category: Parts of speech
summary: A word for a person, animal, thing, or place.

Noun

A noun names a person, animal, thing, or place, like isha' (coyote), paya (water), tüba (pinenut).

In OVP, nouns use suffixes that announce their job in the sentence: a subject noun takes -ii / -uu, an object noun takes -neika / -noka. (Unlike nouns, pronouns don't need these.)

See also Nouns.