I made a comment about this idea here a little while ago, and while /u/AndrewTheConlanger said there'd be a post about it, there is none. (No actual hard feelings.)

The idea is that we have special rules to guide the interpretation of compounds. While there doesn't have to be a single rule per radical, fewer would be preferable. Since the existing rules say that the lexical category of a derived word is that of the first radical, I decided the meaning should be based on that as well; hence these are prefixes.

Including those from the linked comment:

• dez- is a nominalizing prefix (since "thing" is the vaguest noun).
• zu- being
• ta- making
• luud- change (as a noun, since we get the verb sense with taluud- now)
• izòò- large/greatly; opposite bod-
• bud- off-time (general sense of "night"); opposite di-
• kudgul- how much

Some examples are

• dezguv heat / hot thing; dezvid cold / cold thing
• zuguv to be hot
• taguv to make heat
• tazuguv to make something hot
• izòòguv very hot; bodguv warm
• kudgulguv temperature

Here's some seasonal vocabulary based on this kind of system:

• izòòdi season ("long day")
• izòòdibodguv spring ("season of warm")
• izòòdiguv summer
• izòòdibodvid fall
• izòòdivid winter
• izòòdigulka wet season
• izòòdigooka dry season