Re: Questions and Impressions of Basque

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:20:30 -0400, John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...>
wrote:

>Alan R. King's "The Basque Language: A Practical Introduction" lists nine
>such verbs in the modern spoken language with an additional six verbs in
>literary Basque.  The verbs are:
>
>eduki 'have/hold' (simple present 3rd sg. + 3rd sg. object: dauka)
>egon  'be/stay'  (dago)
>esan/erran  'say  (dio)
>etorri  'come'  (dator)
>ibili  'go about'  (dabil)
>izan  'be' (da)
>jakin  'know'  (daki)
>joan  'go'  (doa)
>ukan/izan  'have'  (du)
>
>From the literary language:
>ekarri  'bring' (dakar)
>erabili  'use'  (darabil)
>eraman/eroan  'carry/take'  (darama/daroa)
>etzan  'lie'  (datza)
>iraun  'last'  (dirau)
>irudi  'seem' (dirudi)
There seems to be an interesting pattern among the infinitives here.  The
ones that take an -i ending correspond more often to English transitive
verbs, and those that take an -n ending correspond more often to English
intransitive verbs.  Does anyone else notice this?

- Rob