Re: preliminary conjugation in ju:dajca
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 11, 2000, 21:50 |
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Steg Belsky wrote:
>AMÂL (to love) [a'mAl] < amâre
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>(active)
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>amô ['amow] < ámô
>amâ ['amA] < ámâs
>ama ['ama] < ámat
>amâmus [a'mAmuS] < amâmus
Oo, another one that keeps [u].
>amâti [a'mAsi] < amâtis
>aman ['aman] < ámant
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>(passive)
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>amo ['amo] < ámor
>amâri [a'mAri] < amâris
>amâtu [a'mAsu] < amâtur
>amâmul [a'mAmul] < amâmur
>amâmîn [amA'mijn] < amâmínî
>amant [a'mant(@)] < amántur
Tres cool! J keeps the whole passive? Everyone else dumped these; and
even Kernu only keeps a couple as impersonal forms. Is there some kind
of adstrate influence at work (i.e., do Hebrew or Aramaic have
passives)?
Pretty neat.
Padraic.
>-Stephen (Steg)