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Isilmelire
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on: January 21, 2017 07:31
Hello!
Like the title suggests, what happens when there is a diphthong in the first syllabe of a word and we're trying to write the Perfect Tense? Do we repeat the Diphthong or just the first vowel? And is it lengthened? (Is that even possible?)
I assume in the case of other vowel combinations, like in "feuya-", the first vowel is the only one repeated and lengthened, is that correct?

[Edited on 01/22/2017 by Isilmelire]
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on: January 21, 2017 08:41
Yes, with a central diphthong we add the first vowel as augment: hauta- "stop" - ahautië "has stopped".

The verb feuya- has more than one difficulty as *efeuië would be weird, it would probably become something like efévië.

And your main question, when the verb stem starts in a vowel we don't add an augment: anta- "give" - antië "has given"; ora- "warn" - órië "has warned".
Yassë engë lómë, anarties calali.
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on: January 21, 2017 09:26
I thought efeuië seemed weird...xD
So, the diphthongs don't get lengthened, right?
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on: January 21, 2017 09:32
As a diphthong contains more than one vowel, it is already long.
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on: January 22, 2017 02:32
That didn't even crossed my mind, xD. Thank you!
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