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Íscégon had some auxiliary verbs, many of which are worth noticing because they developed into newer tense/aspect combinations in daughter languages. | Íscégon had some auxiliary verbs, many of which are worth noticing because they developed into newer tense/aspect combinations in daughter languages. | ||
* ''hegon'' (to put) becomes ''egon'' and, after a verbal noun (''-os'') takes a repetitive meaning, e.g. ''bínuros egon'' "to do over and over (pres.)". These forms eventually developed into the simple present (with a frequentative meaning, like in English, and displacing the original Íscégon unmarked present) in most daughter languages, e.g. ''bínuros egon'' → Cerian ''benureon'' (X do/does, c.f. ''masbínur'' → ''mábenú'' "X is/are doing"). | * ''hegon'' (to put) becomes ''egon'' and, after a verbal noun (''-os'') takes a repetitive meaning, e.g. ''bínuros egon'' "to do over and over (pres.)". These forms eventually developed into the simple present (with a frequentative meaning, like in English, and displacing the original Íscégon unmarked present) in most daughter languages, e.g. ''bínuros egon'' → Cerian ''benureon'' (X do/does, c.f. ''masbínur'' → ''mábenú'' "X is/are doing"); Besagren ''binușeu'' (c.f. ''mașin''). | ||
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