Sperantapük

Volapük

Etymology

Compound of Speranta (“of Esperanto”), genitive singular of Sperant (“bound morpheme derived from Esperanto”) + pük (“language”) (morpheme structure: Sperant (“Esperanto”) + -a (“genitive morpheme”) + pük (“language”) = Sperantapük (Esperanto language / Doktoro Esperanto's language))

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [spe.ɾan.ta.ˈpyk]
Hyphenation: Spe‧ran‧ta‧pük

Proper noun

Sperantapük

Esperanto (an international auxiliary language)

Declension

declension of Sperantapük

	singular
nominative	Sperantapük
genitive	Sperantapüka
dative	Sperantapüke
accusative	Sperantapüki
vocative ¹	o Sperantapük!
predicative ²	Sperantapüku

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

hi-Sperantapükan (“male user of Esperanto, male Esperantist”)
ji-Sperantapükan (“female user of Esperanto, female Esperantist”)
Sperantapükik (“of or relating to Esperanto (the auxiliary language)”)
Sperantapükän (“notional land of Esperantists, Esperantujo”)
Sperantapükan (“user of Esperanto, Esperantist”)
Sperantapükav (“linguistic study of Esperanto, Esperantology”)
Sperantapükavan (“specialist in Esperantology, Esperantologist”)