Re: A use for "aizh" ...

Douglas Koller wrote:
>Andreas wrote:
>
>>I just thought I'd tell you I've found a use for the past participle of
>>the
>>Tairezan copula, which, being _aizh_ [aiZ], is to beautiful to leave
>>unused.
>>So from now on it can be used to form "past adjectives"; eg _Ez daive aizh
>>sasht_ "the been red house"="the house that was red/has been red/used to
>>be
>>red".
>
>I know Géarthnuns also has the verb, "aizh", but I don't recall
>offhand what it means.
>
>>So, why not a translation exercise:
>>
>>_Ez laist aizh dair ai anév dadair_ "The been beautiful language is now
>>more
>>beautiful"
>
>Is "ez" an homage to Hungarian?
No. If _ez_ is the definite article in Hungarian, it just a coincidence.
>
>As participial constructions in Géarthnuns are almost identical to
>relative clauses in structure, participles can inflect for tense. So
>although there are no "past adjectives" per se, you could say:
>
>Chau mölkarhars techetneker nöiélör la techetneker íe hengeftö nöi.
>
>chau - the
>mölkarhars - language [nom.]
>techetneker - beautiful [nom.]
>nöiélör - "was-ing" (past active participle of "nöi", "be"; the other
>possible structure would be "chau mölkarhars, chaur lé techetneker
>nöi sho, ...", "the language which was beautiful...")
>la - present auxiliary
>íe - more
>hengeftö - now
>nöi - be
>
>Rather highfalutin, literary style, along the lines of "das von der
>alten Frau gebrochene Fenster", but entirely possible.
>
>Actually, upon my rereading, this seems to be what Tairezan does, no?
Apart from somewhat different syntax, the Géarthnuns construction appears to
be completely parallel to the Tairezan one.

BTW, does Géarthnuns have an _passive_ past participle of the verb "to be",
and if so, what does it mean? In Tairezazh, past participles are passive for
transitive ones and active for intransitive ones.

                                                Andreas

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