Today's all-purpose reply (inc. Tech syllable inversion)

Danny Wier <dawier@...> wrote:
>
> Now onto a distinctive feature of Tech inflection.  Not only are vowels
> shifted betwixt one of three gradations (zero/'schwa' < short > long), and
> consonant mutations along the lines of Welsh and Irish, a CV sequence in the
> original root becmes VC -- that is, it reverses!
Do you know of any natlang that does this (or similar stuff)? I think
I once had that in mind, but I thought it wasn't very naturalistic.
Do you have any (linguistic, diachronic) idea why this reversal happens?

> esso  'to stay' (also can mean 'to be')
>
> There is an implied glottal stop at the beginning of the word, so it's
> really ?esso, where ss = retroflex s.  You have CVCV, two CV's, so you have
> the following permutations:
>
> eoss
> e'sso (?e > e?)
> e'oss
What do these mean? Does the reversal have predictable grammatical
meaning?

[snipped lots and lots of vowels]

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