''Prenoun'' is the term for adjective-like prefixes that attach to nouns in

Algonquian languages The Algonquian languages ( ; also Algonkian) are a family of Indigenous languages of the Americas and most of the languages in the Algic language family are included in the group. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from ...

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

, and

Korean Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, people from the Korean peninsula or of Korean descent * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Korean **Korean dialects **See also: North–South differences in t ...

.Mühlbauer, Jeff
Reduplication in Nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree)''
section 2.2

Algonquian languages

For example, in Nêhiyawêwin ( Plains Cree), the term for "cat" is ''minôs''. With the addition of the prenoun ''wâpiski-'' ("white"), the term ''wâpiski-minôs'' means "white cat." With the prenoun ''misi-'' ("big"), it becomes ''misi-minôs,'' meaning "big cat."Mühlbauer, Jeff
Reduplication in Nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree)''
section 2.2, example 18 Prenouns can also be attached to verbs and then are referred to by the term "

preverb Although not used in general linguistic theory, the term preverb is used in Caucasian (including all three families: Northwest Caucasian, Northeast Caucasian and Kartvelian), Caddoan, Athabaskan, and Algonquian linguistics to describe certai ...

"; ''misi-mîcsow'', "s/he eats a lot"

Korean

In Korean, prenouns are used to modify

pronoun In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (Interlinear gloss, glossed ) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally been regarded as one of the part of speech, parts of speech, but so ...

s, numerals, and

noun In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, like living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas. A noun may serve as an Object (grammar), object or Subject (grammar), subject within a p ...

s. They are different from

adjective An adjective (abbreviations, abbreviated ) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally, adjectives are considered one of the main part of speech, parts of ...

s in Korean. While adjectives may be conjugated in Korean, prenouns cannot. As well, prenouns modify but adjectives merely indicate the state of an object: In that sentence, the word "delicious" is a prenoun. It is not conjugated and modifies the object of the sentence. Compared with the following sentence: "Delicious" is there conjugated and also becomes an adjective. It is used to indicate the current state of the object.

References

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