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Verb-stem Aorist stem 



gwel-leisde^ I shall be lame gwel-Wje^sde^ I am lame 



fdsiwife' I shall fly (166.18) dawaife^ I flew (166.18) 

 [da-uya'^s flyer 



ha-i-hemga'n I shall take (food) ha-i-h.em.ega'^n I took (food) 



out (16.10) out (58.9; 118.12) 



han-gV\ha'n I shall put (beam) ^a7i-giliba'^7i I put (beam) across 



across (176.3) 



&a-i-k!a4si'7i I shall take it out ha-i-klaWsi^n I took it out 



, (25.4) 



p'elga'n I shall go to war against p'elega'^n I went to war against 



them (124.19) them (110.4) 



yamda'vi I shall ask him (70.6) yamada'^Ti I asked him (56.3) 



yi' ms'oldan I shall dream about jimi's'alda^n I dreamed about 



hira him 186.3 

 ^a-w-ha'n^s(Za" it will stop (rain- ^a-ti-hana'"s it stopped (rain- 

 ing) (198.9) ing) 196.8 

 yo^ga'n I shall marry her (192.16) yowoga'^n I married her (43.3) 



As long as the first consonant of the cluster is a semivowel {w, y) 

 or a liquid or nasal Q, m, n), the question as to whether the verb 

 belongs to Type 2 or Type 3 is a purely etymological or historical one. 

 Descriptively it makes.no difference whether a form like p'elega'^n 

 I WENT TO WAR AGAINST THEM is derived from p'eleg- by the inser- 

 tion of the stem-vowel -e- between I and g (Type 3), or from p'el-g- 

 by the addition of the -e- to a base p'el- (Type 2). From a purely 

 descriptive point of view, then, the most typical aorist formation in 

 Takelma may be said to be characterized by the repetition of the stem- 

 vowel immediately after the first consonant following the stem-vowel. 



From the point of view of vocalic quantity the verbs of Type 3 

 fall into the same two classes as those of Type 2 — such as have a 

 short vowel in the stem (t!amy-, tslawy-, malg-, p'elg-, Jiants!-) and 

 such as have a long vowel (Hits'!-, gPlb-, TddHs), these latter being 

 apparently much less numerous than in Type 2. The quantity of 

 both the stem vowels of the aorist is regularly short, even when the 

 verb-stem vowel is long (gilih-, Ic.'alas-); only rarely is the second 

 vowel of the aorist stem long (leye^s-, ilyuHs'!-). The accent of 

 stressed stem vowels follows the same rules as in the case of verbs of 

 Type 3 {dowaife^, Jtan-gili^p' with rising or raised pitch; but Tiana'^s, 

 Tie'^^x-daP' he will be left over, uyu'^^s'de^ i laugh, with falling 

 accent because of the glottal catch). 



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