Introduction
Foliage is considered the main ‘content words’ of Dryadic. Dryadic lacks anything resembling a noun, and instead foliage encode states and actions. There are three categories of foliage: leaves, fruits, and flowers. Most categories are lexically related to one another and in most cases can be derived from each other. The leaf form is typically used as the dictionary form of a foliage. These three categories correspond to the word zaal, in which the leaf form zaal means “to leaf out,” the fruit form means zaele “to bear fruit,” and the flower form zalea means “to blossom, be in blossom.” Leaves typically encode states and actions that are bound in some way to a system with animate or dynamic properties. Fruits encode states and actions that are bound in some way to a system with inanimate or static properties. And, finally, flowers encode general, unbound states and actions.
The word keza can be used to better demonstrate the differences between each foliage type. The leaf form keza indicates the state or action in a way that is bound to an animate system, in this case a viewer or eyes, and could be translated as “to see” or “to look.” The fruit form kea indicates the state in a way that is bound to an inanimate or static system, and could be translated as “to appear” or “to be seen as.” The flower form kezae indicates the state or action in an unbound system and could be translated as “to be able to see” or “to have sight.”