Re: An Inflectional Puzzle
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 9, 2007, 4:30 |
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In a message dated 8/8/2007 3:19:49 PM Central Daylight Time,
joefatula@INBOX.COM writes:
> Can you predict what the patient sg. forms of these words would be?
> gayara >
> vilzu >
> fana >
> shari >
> rizuwa >
> muzha >
>
>
Here are my answers:
gayara > vazara
vilzu > ginku
fana > kana
shari > shari
rizuwa > riyuda
muzha > tuzha
no change: sh, zh, n, nt, p, r
reversals: y-z, t-m, s-ng, f-k, nk-lz, w-d
unknowns: v-g (analogous to f-k)
I haven't found any pattern in the reversals, and so have no way to reliably
predict new ones.
stevo </HTML>