You've never been not helpful. I miss the old IRC days.DesEsseintes wrote: ↑14 Dec 2017 02:43gestaltist wrote: ↑13 Dec 2017 17:55Given that after reading this I wrote two pages' worth of ideas, I'd say it was immensely helpful. Thanks Des.![]()
I’m glad if it was helpful! Do share the morfofo you come up with.
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I'll probably post some of my ideas soon as I could use advice from people smarter than me. For now, I'll share a small tidbit of my sketch from yesterday which I found pretty cool.
Let's say you have stems ka (1), ka (2), kar (1), kar (2) - synchronically, versions 1 and 2 are identical. Then you have a suffix -o. As a result, you get:
ka1 + o = kao
ka2 + o = karo
kar1 + o = kao
kar2 + o = karo
The reason lies in diachronics, of course. ka1 has always been *ka but ka2 stems from *kat. Word final voiceless stops elided but when adding a suffix, *t underwent lenition instead, resulting in karo.
Conversely, kar1 comes from *kad - word final *d became r but *d lenited away completely between vowels, resulting in kao. kar2 has always been *kar and remains karo when suffixed.