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

Algonquian languages

The Algonquian languages also Algonkian) are a subfamily of Native American languages which includes most of the languages in the Algic language family. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the Ojibwe language, which is a...

 and the Korean Language

Korean language

Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...

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Algonquian Languages

For example, in Nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree

Plains Cree language

Plains Cree is a dialect of the Algonquian language, Cree, which is the most common Canadian indigenous language. Plains Cree is sometimes considered a dialect of the Cree-Montagnais language, or sometimes a dialect of the Cree language, distinct from the Montagnais language...

), the term for "cat" is minôs, with the addition of the prenoun wâpiski- ("white"), the term wâpiski-minôs means white-cat , and with the prenoun misi- ("big"), it becomes misi-minôs with the meaning "big cat".

Prenouns can also be attached to verbs, in which case they are referred to by the term "preverb

Preverb

Although not widely accepted in linguistics, the term preverb is used in Caucasian , Caddoan, Athabaskan, and Algonquian linguistics to describe certain elements prefixed to verbs.Theoretically, any prefix could be called a preverbal element...

" ; misi-mîcsow, "s/he eats a lot"

Korean Language

In the Korean Language, pre-nouns are used to modify pronoun

Pronoun

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a pro-form that substitutes for a noun , such as, in English, the words it and he...

s, numeral

Numeral

The term numeral can refer to:* Symbols for numbers used in mathematics.* Numeral , the basic words combined in a language represent numbers* Numerical digit, the glyphs used to represent numerals...

s, and noun

Noun

In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition .Lexical categories are defined in terms of how their members combine with other kinds of...

s. They are different than adjective

Adjective

In grammar, an adjective is a 'describing' word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified....

s in Korean. While adjectives may be conjugated in Korean, pre-nouns cannot. As well pre-nouns modify whereas adjectives simply indicate the state of an object.

An example of pre-noun usage is in this sentence:

그는	맛있는	고기를	좋아해요.
He	delicious	meat	likes

In this sentence the word "delicious" is a pre-noun. It is not conjugated and modifies the object of the sentence. Compared with the following sentence:

이 고기는	맛있어요.
This meat	delicious

"Delicious" is conjugated and becomes an adjective. This is used to indicate the current state of the object.