>Well, not in Western Indo-European languages, but they are common in Hindi
>and other Indo-Aryan languages. They are also found in Modern Greek, but
>are somewhat restricted in their form and use.

Ah, okay - Indo-Aryan is a complete gap in my brain, I have to admit.

>> The dictionary begins with giving the constituents:
>> V1 _abaku_ 'expose some criminal or confidential matter'
>That is one heck of a specific meaning for such a short stem! My dictionary
>says it means "to disclose, to divulge, to expose" in general, which feels
>more like it :).

You're right, the authors rather seem to give the meaning which the constituents take in the compound. They also gloss _dasu_ as 'dig out and expose', but the actual meaning is more like 'take out, produce'.

>That last one is a great idiomatic compound! I might just steal it for
>Moten! :P

You have my blessing. :-)

>It's indeed a great way to present compounds, especially given how they
>work in Talmit. Are those the only kinds of compounds you have in the
>language, or can you just put stems together without a joining element?

There are usual compounds, of course, including verb-verb compounds which work just like in Japanese - by using a compound verb form which in Talmit is _-en-_. For example, from _gánun_ 'go' and _gínun/gίun_ 'see' (<ίu> = [ɨʊ̯]). one can form _gánen-gínun/gánen-gίun_ 'go-see' (in a phrasal compound _gárugi_). Some roots which I call 'light' can also use the blank stem: _de-gínun, de-gίun_ 'do-see' = 'try'. 'Heavy' roots, on the other hand, cannot be used as blank stems and cannot form phrasal compounds either, so there is for example _táplen-kádun_ 'say-push' = 'coerce', but neither _**tapl_ nor _**kad_ are allowed because _-d_ and final clusters are prohibited.