Re: Paternoster in Kerno (no joke, this time!) was Re: exetra.

--- Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...> wrote:

> dimeti y nusteor dheuz cuomo dimitemus ai nusteor
> dheutoeres;
Oo. You can also see the Kerno ablaut at work, on
account of the shift in accent from the monosyllabic
root syllable of diMEti to the ending in dimitEmus.

This phenomenon seems to be quite restricted in
nature, as there are a lot of things that prevent it.
For example, infinitives are immune because the accent
is variable (MEter / meTER); for much the same reason,
past participles are immune; futures in -ur- and pasts
in -s- are also immune because they are considered to
change the monosyllabic root into a polysyllabic one.

Preverbs and enclitics have no effect on this ablaut
shift: doandmetínosels (send em on over to us) /
doandmithyámuslisels (we'll send em on over to them).
And _yes_, there IS a verb in that tangle!:

do = to                       \   All that together
a = towards                    >  makes a conjugated
nd = em (third pl. object pron/   preverb.
mit(h) = verbal root; aspiration due to following
vowel
ya = subjunctive / hortative stem
mus = 1pl ending
lis = 3pl. (indirect object)
els = 3pl. (direct object)

Happily, such occurences are rare!

Padraic.


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parla, mays ben parla; et pharleir becko il maboun.

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