Re: NATLANG: Humagrian glossary

Frank írja:

>  >   The "enni" 'to eat' belongs to a special [small and improductive]
>>  verbal group called "sz-stem" verbs. Etymologically these roots had
>>  the pattern of V or CV. But these patterns were ruled out by the
>>  phonotactics. Therefore the root was extended by various elements.
>>  In present tense, it was the "sz" consonant, thus the lexematic
>>  form is: "eszik" 'he/she eats' (in addition, it's an "ik"-type
>>  verb).
>
>Aha, then a question that's been bugging me for...near as long as I can
>remember.
>
>In the pattern:
>
>Meg lesz írva
>El lesz olvasva
>El lesz téve
>
>What are the forms for 'inni' and 'enni'? For 'enni' the best I could come
>up with is 'meg lesz edve', but...I dunno. And for 'inni', I'm at a total
>loss...
I thought you were a native speaker, and you were vegging. I asked my
native speaker referee here and she vegged (I thought if I caught her
off-guard, she might have a gut response, but she stopped to think
about it, and the indecision kicked in).  She profferred "éve" or
"eszve", but even she didn't know either. She said she might hit up
her father, a teacher, for an answer. Stay tuned.

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