Noun Miscellanea - 1

In this, I'm going to talk about some Noun things that I don't have 100% figured out/don't have enough done to make a whole post.

Quantitative vs Non-Quantitative

The current plan is to distinguish between Quantitative and Non-Quantitative Nouns in a method similar to English. Relevant words (Much/Many, Less/Fewer, More/[Other More]) will each have a distinct word and can be modified by correlative prefixes (in cases where that would be a thing).
My current plan is that Non-Quantitative have no distinguishing features, but may be more likely to look like plural nouns (that is, they might look like they're already plural).

Gendered Nouns

All nouns are neuter by default, but person-nouns (and animals, I guess, if you want), such as "sibling," "parent," and "cousin," and any others you might like, can be made into gendered forms ("sister," "mom") with the addition of a prefix.

Originally, the way this worked was [gender prefix] + [person root] (sister = [feminine prefix] + [sibling root]) and then the neuter was [person root] + dal. This has a nice artistry to it, but isn't very efficient, and I don't like it.

Further, familial nouns also need diminutive forms. Not sure how I'm going to bring all this together...

Nouns - 1

Nouns are, possibly, the most important class of words in any given language.

Elessic has no complex rules for Nouns, no genders or declensions. The most difficult thing is pluralization, but I'll get to that.

Nouns can display the following cases: Genetive, Dative 1, Dative 2.
I'll cover Cases once I have Nouns to use in examples and such.

Glossary:

anan - Sun

bek - Bear

ĉira - Magnolia

dal - Person

del - Water

dava - Elf

gwɪl - Cloud

ɪksɪl - Silk

lim - Tree

men - Place

sɪma - Flower

yon - Salt

Plurals:

By default, a Noun becomes plural by receiving an -r- between its last Consonant-Noun pair. For example: dal becomes dral, bek becomes brek, sɪma becomes sɪmra. Not all words can support this method, going through the following options in order:

A word like lim, which would become difficult/impossible to pronounce (lrim can't be said as a single syllable), instead takes -R-. Therefore, "Trees" is lRim.

A word which can't support an -R-, like gwɪl, instead receives a word-final -a.

A word which cannot take a word-final -a (due to already ending in a vowel), such as ĉira, take a word-final -n.

Obviously, some words have no need for a plural form in the traditional sense (these being non-count nouns, most often), but in some cases a plural form might be used for extra meaning (such as multiple groups of the noun, similar to as in English). This may also be used for contextual detailing, such as with del, which often is used as a suffix in naming bodies of water. del is used for stationary waters (lakes, ponds), and drel is used for moving water (rivers, the ocean).