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--- On Tue, 10/2/12, thomasruhm <thomas@hidden.email> wrote: >> Forsa pudamus scrivere paucum da cudeces quales legevamus. Si voles >> pudes salectare topicum. Egu na sum bónum en ancevere. > dcued e uuelevosste an famlare? > ah...cued ventye up lla tiis meysed? up lla miis, vantun estilei cueder > at deneryei noumdix. an. prep./pvb.; toward, to at. conj.; and cued. interrog/demonst. pron.; what cueder. num.; 4 de. prep./pvb.; of, concerning, from deneryons. n.; coin e. pvb.; then, at that time estilons. n.; writing instrument famlare. vb.; talk, chat lla. def.art.; the miis. pos.pron.; my noumdix. num.; 19 oys. def.art.; the tiis. pos.pron.; thy up. prep./pvb.; above, upon uuelere. vb.; wish, desire vare. vb.; be, exist -o decl. (man) nom. vers vere obl. vered verem -a decl. (table) nom. meysa meysae obl. meysed meysem -e decl. (tree) nom. armre armrei obl. armred armrem -n decl. (stylus) nom. estilons estilonei obl. estilon estilonem Typical conjugation: CANTARE (sing) Present Active Momentary cantentyo cantantim cantantes cantentiis cantentye cantantun Present Active Durational cantantevo cantantvam cantanteus cantantuis cantanteu cantantvun Present Stative-Intransitive cantantvam cantantvami cantantvas cantantvasti cantantvay cantantvanti Past Active Momentary cantavosi cantavosmi cantavosste cantavossti cantavosti cantavosenti Past Stative-Intransitive cacantii cacantmi cacantsi cacantsti cacantti cacantenti Gnomic cantam cantmas cantas cantast cantad cantand Injunctive macantam macantam macantas macantast macantad macantand Imperative dir. canta cantud indir. cantiya cantiyud I left out the medio-passive and the future. Most verb forms are fused periphrases: cantantun < cantante eyund = "they go singing"; cantantvanti < cantante vantid = "they are singing". Obviously, the periphrasis consists of a participle plus some form of "go" or "be" or some other auxiliary verb. The past and the gnomic forms are all inherited from the parent language, and reflect the ancient perfect & gnomic conjugations. Cacantenti simply reflects the ancient cecantunti = they sung, with the commonplace reduplicated root plus characteristic perfect endings. Certain verb endings in -iyo, -iye, etc. cause a kind of mutation of the participial root: *cantantiyo > cantentyo. Not at all unlike the woman / women variation in Germanic, and largely for the same reason. A similar mutation can be detected in adjectives and perhaps some other places as well: oys armre clars vs. t'armrei cler (the White Tree). Padraic