thth-la- |
‘stammer’
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lm-ka-
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‘lengthen’
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khng-f-
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‘cough’
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bij-f
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‘cultivate’
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khUrk-f
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‘itch’
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Besides simple verb stems there are also compound verb stems formed
from two or more verbal bases as well as nominal base followed by verbal
stem.
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These are composed of a nominal element plus one or more verbs and in
such stems the nominal element occurring as first member determines the
meaning of the verb. Where there are two verbal bases in a conjunct verb
then the verbalizer is followed by one of the intensifiers.
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A few examples of conjunct stems are :
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còi
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l€-
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‘adopt’
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psInd
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kr-
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‘like’
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yad
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kr-
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‘remember’
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Ist€mal
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kr-
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‘use’
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razi
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kr-
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‘please’
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rakhi
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kr-
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‘protect’
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chl
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mar-
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‘overflow’
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mzbur
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kr-
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‘urge’
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bho
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kr-
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‘gather’
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b nd
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kr-
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‘stop, close’
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knni
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kr-
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‘separate’
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kimti
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l€-
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‘buy’
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dàro
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de-
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‘lend’
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In the language the verbal compound stems are formed with the help two
to three verbal bases and the main meaning of the verb is reflected by the
first member and the mood, aspect are reflected by the inflection of the
second member in a two member compound verb. There first member can be
either of the verb stems like intransitives, transitive or causative etc.
The compound verbal stems are of various types depending on the form of
the members.
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(a) Most of the compound verbal stems are constituted of bare verbal
stem as the first member followed by verbal intensifiers as the second
member. These member, thus marks a kind of aspect and the agreement rule
is shown by them. In the language the intensifiers are /a/ ‘come’, /ja-/
‘go’ /cl-/
‘move’ /cho-/
‘leave’, /r-/
‘live’ /de/ ‘give’, /l€-/
‘take’ and /sk-/
‘can’. It is not easy all the verbal bare stems do not take all the intensifiers
except /sk-/
‘can’ and /r-/
‘live’ which can occur with all the bare stems. /sk/
cannot inflect for imperatives in such a combination and /r-/
only inflects for perceptive participle in such a combination. There are
some co-restrictions on the occurrence of intensifiers in combination with
the bare stems and these are semantically conditioned. For example /cho-/
‘leave’ /de-/ ‘give’
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