A few examples
are :
|
|
hũ
|
k m
|
krũ
|
lgo
|
wo
|
‘I (mas.)
|
am
|
working’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
|
2-3-4-5 |
|
| |
|
hm
|
km
|
krã
|
lga
|
wa
|
‘We
|
are
|
working’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
|
2-3-4-5 |
|
| |
|
wa
|
jy€
|
lgi
|
wi
|
‘She
|
is
|
going’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
|
2-3-4 |
|
| |
|
we
|
jy
|
lgĩ
|
wĩ
|
‘They (fem.)
|
are
|
going’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
|
2-3-4 |
|
| |
|
we
|
jy
|
lgĩ
|
wĩ
|
thĩ
|
‘They (fem.)
|
were
|
going’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
5 |
2-3-4 |
|
|
(f) There is another type of verb-verb compound stem in which first
member is always perfective participial form and the second member is
always /lo -/
inflected and such compound verbal stems always denote the passive mood.
|
|
A few examples are :
|
|
k   i
|
lgi
|
lo€
|
‘It
|
must
|
bell’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
| |
|
ki
|
bjai
|
lo€
|
‘The
|
bell
|
must
|
ring’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
|
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
| |
|
km
|
kIyo |
lo€
|
‘The
|
work
|
need
|
to
|
be
|
one’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
|
1 |
3 |
|
|
2 |
|
|
Three-member compound verbal stems
|
|
There are also compound verbal stems which are constituted of three
verbal stems. In such compound stems either the first member is a verbal
base taking the infinitive oblique form as the second member or the first
and second members are simply verbal bases
followed by one of the intensifiers as third member permissible with
infinitive oblique form and verbal bases as given above in (a & b)
|
|
A few examples are :
|
|
Us
|
na
|
y
|
dand
|
l€
|
ja
|
deo
|
‘Let
|
him
|
take
|
this
|
bullock’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
7 |
1-2 |
5-6 |
3 |
4 |
|
| |
|
wo
|
xoto
|
ní
|
l€
|
ja
|
deto
|
‘He
|
does
|
not
|
allow
|
to
|
take
|
the
|
donkey’ |
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
6 |
|
4-5 |
|
2 |
|
| |
|
wo
|
mewo
|
de |
ja |
lgo
|
‘He
|
began
|
to
|
give
|
fruit’
|
|
1
|
2
|
3 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
5 |
|
3-4 |
2 |
|
| |
|
wa
|
km
|
kr
|
ja
|
lgi
|
‘She
|
began
|
working’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
5 |
2-3-4
|
|
| |
|
wo
|
pà a
|
manj
|
l€
|
ayo
|
‘He
|
cleaned
|
the
|
utensils’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
3-4-5 |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
etc.
|
|
|
|
|
Following are the suffixes added to the verbal stems.
|
|
(a) Person-Number suffixes
|
|
|
Singular
|
Plural |
|
1.
|
Ist
|
-ũ
|
-ã
|
|
IInd
|
-€
|
-ẽ
|
|
III rd
|
-€
|
-ẽ
|
|
2.
|
IInd
|
f ~
-o
|
-o
|
|
3.
|
IInd |
-Iye |
-Iyo |
|
