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Eruantalincë
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Post A-stems with '-ya' in future tense?
on: December 13, 2003 02:02
For I had checked a little poem here, there was one question that I could not let go of: what happens to A-stem verbs, ending in '-ya' in the future tense? Someone pointed me to that.
Would a verb like 'harya-' become 'haryuva' or 'haruva'?

I really have no idea. Anyone does?

[Edited on 14/12/2003 by Eruantalincë]
Tari_Niphredil
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Post RE: A-stems with '-ya' in future tense?
on: December 13, 2003 07:25
That's a very good question. I drop the -ya because for most of the tenses they drop the -ya, but I may be wrong.
Elhath
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Post RE: A-stems with '-ya' in future tense?
on: December 14, 2003 04:11

According to the common theory, it should be *haryuva (though AFAIR so far we can't be 100% sure if the future doesn't have a direct tie with the past [looking at enquaNTuva], and thusly, if the future tense of a verb like lelya- would be ?lelyuva, or perhaps ?lenduva instead... but so far the "present" stem is seen as safer, I understand).


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Malinornë
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Post RE: A-stems with '-ya' in future tense?
on: December 14, 2003 10:36
I'd go for "haryuva". The "-ya" isn't dropped in all tenses, and not for all verbs. Only intransitive verbs seems to lose it in the past tense.
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Post RE: A-stems with '-ya' in future tense?
on: December 17, 2003 02:06
The Perfect Tense and Intransitive Verbs in the Past Tense drop the -ya before adding the ending. But from a phonological point of view, I see no reason why the future tense would do likewise.
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