-o-n vs -on- (e.g., dekonaĵon) about esperanta-analizisto HOT 6 OPEN

For now I'm leaving "on" out as a root, as it's FAR less common than the -o and -n endings.

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-on- can only appear in the middle of a word.

Can -o and -n also appear in the middle of a word? If so, then we still have no way of knowing whether "on" should be parsed as -on- or -o-n-.

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-o can definitely appear in the middle of compound words. For example, akvofonto, akv-o-font-o.

-n really should only appear at the very end of a word, as it's the direct-object marker for adjectives and nouns.

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Hm, okay. Could -on appear at the end of a word? If not, we could make rules saying "n" should always be parsed at the end of a word and never parsed otherwise.

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So the root should be n$ instead of just n (using $ in the PCRE sense). Hmmm. That could work. Could also address the issue with iĝis parsing as i-ĝis instead of iĝ-is (#23), if the root were ^ĝis instead of just ĝis.

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Yeah, I like that idea. I think we might also find priorities useful, and parse longest-first in each priority (set "n$" to be a higher priority than others, so that it's always parsed when it matches instead of being overridden by longer roots).

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