Re: Verbs Outside of the Slavic

--- caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
wrote:

> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Elliott Lash
> <erelion12@Y...> wrote:
>
> >the rest had been smushed together with the root in
> a variety of
> >morphophonemic processes.
>
> >What happens in Old Irish is that the aspectual
> augment <do-cum> in
> >this case, becomes squished together.
>
> I know the terms syncope, apocope, and aphaeresis,
> but I had never
> come across the terms smush and squish.  David
> Crystal doesn't
> include them in his dictionary.  Is there any
> differnce in these two
> terms or are they pretty much synonymous?  :-)>

Pretty much. The process is syncope, I just like using
smush and squish.

 do:de-com-wed+ti (-ti "3rd singular present)
 do:de-co-wed+ti  (mw > w)
 do:de-c-wed+t    (syncope)
 do:decet         (assimilation: cw > c, dt > t /d/)
 do:deCHET        (lenition: c > ch betweeen vowels)

 do:dichet "he can go"  (random vowel change e > i)

~Elliott







		
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