Compounding

Compounding is productive and deliberately permissive.

A compound should remain mechanically decomposable from known material. Nordsippisk does not require every useful compound to become a dedicated glossary entry.

Examples:

• farþing — travel-thing; vehicle / conveyance
• farmashin — travel-machine; mechanical conveyance
• werk-stedd — workplace
• nutag — now-day; today
• midnatt — middle-night; midnight

Hyphens are optional at genuine morpheme boundaries.

The head carries ordinary inflection

The final head of a compound normally carries number, definiteness, and other inflection that applies to the compound as a whole.

krigbund — war group / war league
krigbunden — the war group / the war league

A preceding component does not need possessive -s merely because English might use of or a possessive-looking paraphrase. Use -s only when possession itself is intended.

folks krigbunden — the people’s war league

Thus compounding and possession remain separate mechanisms.

Morphology inside compounds

A compound element may carry ordinary morphology when that morphology contributes meaning.

skrivbund — a coherent collection of writing
skrivarbund — a collection foregrounding multiple distinct writings

Likewise:

sangbund — an album-like coherent song collection
sangarbund — a playlist-like collection of separate songs

This is a semantic tendency, not a special compound grammar.

Verb roots as modifiers

Verb roots may modify noun roots when the intended relation is clear.

makþing — a doing/making thing; something to do
makþingar — things to do

Ik hav mergod makþingar.
I have better things to do.

This is preferred over importing English noun + to-infinitive syntax. at remains the explicit infinitive marker and does not become a general noun-modifying particle.

Comparative compounds

mer and ferr may form qualifier + root compounds:

mergod — better
mersmal — smaller
ferrhard — less difficult

These are ordinary compounds rather than a separate comparative inflection class.

Large transparent constructions

Ordinary morphology and compounding may stack freely when the result remains readable.

Frii Nordsippisk Folks Krigbunden

can be decomposed as:

frii nordsippisk folk-s krig-bund-en

roughly: the Free Nordsippisk People’s War League / War Union.