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More Roumán Verbs

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, November 25, 2000, 1:19
Here are the other verbal classes.

First, a few corrections in the -áu verbs.

Antipassive Infinitive: -atles

2nd person plural present normal is -éiç
Past exalted
  S     P
1 éi    amous
2 éç    aceis
3 óuç   áun

The plurals of all antipassives begin with -toe-, e.g., -toesmous
instead of -tousmous
2nd person plural preesnt normal antipassive is -tóess
3rd person singular past normal antipassive is -átleseç

Also, all <l>, except in <tl> should be <r> (merely an orthographic
difference)

Class II
Infinitive: -éi
Antipassive infinitive: -éitles
Perfect Participle: -tous

Present tense
  Exalted     Normal      Humble
  S     P     S     P     S     P
1 ou    éinç  ein   iánç
2 eis   éiç   as    iáç
3 eç    en    eis   ein   éiss  éon

Past tense
  Exalted      Normal
  S     P      S       P
1 --*   mous   éin     eiréinç
2 ç(i)* ceis   éis, ás eiréiç
3 eiç   uéon   éiç     éin

Perfect tense
  Exalted     Normal
  S     P     S     P
1 rein  ránç  sen   séinç
2 ras   ráç   seis  séiç
3 raç   ran   seç   sen

*stem vowel changes, a -> e, e -> ei, ei -> i, o -> ou, ou -> u

Antipassive is identical to -áu verbs in the plural, and in the
singular, -a- is replaced by -ei-, and -e- by -i-, e.g., past exalted:
  S        P
1 ípf      toefeinç
2 eipfist' toefeiç
3 eipfeiç  toefein

Class III
Infinitive: -re (-le, -e)
Antipassive infinitive: -tóes
Perfect Participle: -tous
Class III is divided into 2 subcategories, corresponding to the -o and
-io groups in Latin, most -io verbs have moved to the -o group, and many
class III verbs in Latin have moved to II or IV.

Present tense
  Exalted             Normal              Humble
  S        P        S         P         S        P
1 ou, iou* mous     an, in*   ánç, iánç
2 eis      teis     as, ias*  áç, iáç
3 eiç      on, ion* (a)ç, iç* (a)n, in* eç, ieç* en, ien*

Past tense
  Exalted      Normal
  S     P      S       P
1 --*   mous   ren     réinç
2 ç(i)* ceis   reis    réiç
3 eiç   éon    reç     ren

Perfect tense
  Exalted     Normal
  S     P     S     P
1 ran   ránç  sen   séinç
2 ras   ráç   seis  séiç
3 raç   ran   seç   sen

*Stem vowel changes, a -> e, e -> ei, ei -> i, o -> ou, ou -> u

Antipassive is the same as -áu in the plural, and in the singular, the
first vowel is dropped (so -açoun -> -çoun), and accented -á- is
replaced by stem stress.  For example, 1st Singular Past Normal for amáu
and for ccaple is amátlesen and ccáptlesen (/A'mAKEsEn/ /'kafKEsEn/)

Class IV
Infinitive: -í
Antipassive infinitive: -ís
Perfect Participle: -itous

Present tense
  Exalted     Normal      Humble
  S     P     S     P     S     P
1 ou    ínç   ein   iánç
2 s     íç    ias   iáç
3 eç    on    eiç   ein   ieç   ien

Past tense
  Exalted      Normal
  S     P      S    P
1 í     ínç    ín   iénç
2 íç    iceis  ís   iéiç
3 íç    iéon   íç   ín

Perfect tense
  Exalted     Normal
  S     P     S     P
1 rín   ránç  isen  séinç
2 rís   ráç   iseis séiç
3 ríç   rín   iseç  isen

Antipassive is as with Class I, but with -a- and -e- replaced by -i-

All conjugations:
Future Active
Infinitive plus:
  Exalted     Normal      Humble
  S     P     S     P     S     P
1 déi   déinç déin  d'ánç
2 déis  déiç  déas  d'áç
3 déç   dén   déiç  déin  déis  déon

Future Past Active (i.e., "used to", "would", "was going to", etc.)
  Exalted      Normal
  S     P      S       P
1 dí    déos   béin    réinç
2 gí    géis   bás     réç
3 déiç  béon   béiç    béin

These are all derived from debêre, which also exists as a regular
independant verb debéi, meaning "to owe"

Antipassive and Intransitive Verbs
Modified Infinitive (áu -> ar, éi -> eir, -re -> -r, í -> ir)
Future
  Exalted     Normal      Humble
  S     P     S     P     S     P
1 óu    ínç   én    iánç
2 ís    íç    éas   iáç
3 íç    ión   éç    én    íç    ín

Future Past
  Exalted      Normal
  S     P      S       P
1 iban  bánç   isen    céinç
2 ibas  báç    iseis   céiç
3 ibaç  iban   iseç    isen

These are derived from _îre_, which also forms part of the conjugation
of _badle_ (from _vadere_, or was it _vadêre_, in which case it'd be
_badéi_?)

Bele (< _velle_) plus infinitive is also sometimes used for future,
e.g., Bein amáu OR amaudéin (amáu = to love)

I haven't figured out imperatives.  I don't think that the Latin
imperatives will have survived, and I don't think it'll be inflectional.