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====The permissive mood==== | ====The permissive mood==== | ||
The permissive mood also conjugates in all tenses and aspects and is formed, without reduplication, by adding '''-ippu-''' before consonantal endings and '''-īpr-''' before vocalic ones. Note that in the present tense, dual terminations use ''-ippu-'' and the ''-dā-'' ending (not ''-odā-''); for the third plural, ''-ippuyąt'' is the commonly used form: ''-ipryąt'' is attested but extremely archaic. | The permissive mood also conjugates in all tenses and aspects and is formed, without reduplication, by vowel lengthening and adding '''-ippu-''' before consonantal endings and '''-īpr-''' before vocalic ones. Note that in the present tense, dual terminations use ''-ippu-'' and the ''-dā-'' ending (not ''-odā-''); for the third plural, ''-ippuyąt'' is the commonly used form: ''-ipryąt'' is attested but extremely archaic. | ||
Examples: ''mišake'' → '' | Examples: ''mišake'' → ''mīšippu-'' > ''mīšipru'' "I am allowed to see", ''mīšippum'' “I was allowed to see”. | ||
Bisyllabic roots which have as their second syllable an unstressed vowel between two consonants that may form an allowed cluster (thus sonorant-vowel-stop/fricative, except ''-m-velar'') lose this vowel while adding the suffix, e.g. ''hañilke'' > '' | Bisyllabic roots which have as their second syllable an unstressed vowel between two consonants that may form an allowed cluster (thus sonorant-vowel-stop/fricative, except ''-m-velar'') lose this vowel while adding the suffix, e.g. ''hañilke'' > ''hūlñippu-'' ('''-ñl-''' → '''-lñ-''' is a fairly regular saṃdhi change). | ||
====The verb "to be" (gyake)==== | ====The verb "to be" (gyake)==== | ||