Re: preliminary conjugation in ju:dajca

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:19:07 -0500, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
wrote:

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>
>amô | amo
>amâ | amâri
>ama | amâtu
>amâmû | amâmu
>amâti | amâmîn
>aman | amant
>
>So, verbs in -ÂL, in the present indicative have the following endings:
>active ~  -ô | -â | -a | -âmû | -âti | -an
>passive ~  -o | -âri | -âtu | -âmu | -âmîn | -ant
>
>And the stress falls on the penultimate syllable, except for -âmîn, where
>it's on the last syllable.
>In -ant, the stress is on the A of the ending, since the T is it's own
>syllable, [t@].
>
If amatur > amâtu and amamur > amâmu, I'd expect amantur > amantu. What
do you think?

Basilius