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| [[Old {{PAGENAME}}]] had a verb system with complex alternations, almost comparable to that of Old Irish.<!-- for example: | | [[Old {{PAGENAME}}]] had a verb system with complex alternations, almost comparable to that of Old Irish. Modern {{PAGENAME}} simplified this system substantially, leaving behind a mixture of synthetic forms (used without a subject pronoun) and analytic forms (used with a subject noun or pronoun), similar to the Modern Irish system. |
| *Thn. ''molynis'' 'I thank' > OTig ''molain'' (prototonic); Thn. ''tir molyn'' 'I do not thank' > OTig ''tí·mlu'' (deuterotonic)
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| *Cf. Thn. ''armolynis'' 'I pursue' > '' ar·mluin'' (deuterotonic); Thn. ''tir armolyn'' 'I do not pursue' > OTig ''tír·mol'' (prototonic)
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| *Thn. ''duptymis'' 'he builds' > OTig ''duchdaimh'' Thn. ''tir duptym'' 'he does not build' > OTig ''tý·dchtumh'' (The negative particle undergoes u-umlaut here!)
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| ====Present tense==== | | ====Present tense==== |