Re: Hilarious lexicon entry...

Hi!

taliesin the storyteller writes:
> * theiling@ABSINT.COM said on 2006-07-03 03:20:04 +0200
> > Now, I just finished entering a verb into the Þrjótran lexicon which I
> > hereby declare to be irregular -- the forms that dropped out of the
> > regular sound shifter were just so hilariously funny (at least to me)
> > that I decided I will only make minor fixes before putting it into the
> > lexicon:
> >
> >    http://www.kunstsprachen.de/lex?domain=s17;action=infl;c-ye
> >
> > BTW, the verb is from Latin 'tene:re' - 'to hold'.  Its meaning is
> > broader in Þrjótran, approximately like in Spanish.
>
> Often, verbs meaning "to hold" becomes verbs meaning "to have" becomes
> dative case, so it's a good verb for irregularity!
Yes, that's exactly what it means in modern Thrjotran: 'to have' (now,
not expressing general possession, that would be pöstir) and b) what I
kept it for, because I thought this word would certainly stand some
irregularity.  I even kept the subjunctive preterite (<
Lat. subjunctive pluperfect) that most verbs dropped.

**Henrik