From: Eric Christopherson (rakko@charter.net)
Date: Mon Mar 26 2001 - 08:01:24 EST
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:24:39AM -0500, Steg Belsky wrote:
> I've been trying on working on the conjugations for verbs in my
> Judeo-Romance conlang, Jûdajcâ (notice the name change, final long A),
> and this is what i've come up with so far.
> (accented syllable has the capitalized vowel, if no capital, stress falls
> on last syllable of root)
>
> Prônôminnôrû: eg / tû / hac hâjic / nôs / jôs / hîdê hajdê
> (pronouns: i / you(sg) / he she / we / you(pl) / they(m) they(f)
>
> Jelbî Âma"z ~ -âl / -âr
> (Â Verbs)
>
> -ÂL = active infinitive ending
> -ÂR = passive infinitive ending
>
> Prayyentâ (present):
> actîvâ:
> -ô
> -â
> -
> -Âmû
> -Âtî
> -An
>
> passîvâ:
> -Ôs
> -Ârê
> -Âtû
> -âmÛyû
> -âmÎn
> -Enet
>
> Pelpectâ (past/perfect):
> actîvâ:
> -Âvî
> -âvEset
> -Âv
> -âvÎmû
> -âvEset
> -âvÊren
>
> passîvâ:
> -âtÛs
> -âtûyÊ
> -âtûyÊs
> -âtîyÛm
> -âtîjÊs
> -âtîyÛn
>
> Puttûrâ (future/conditional?):
> actîvâ:
> -âljÔ
> -âlÎ
> -âlÎt
> -âlÎmû
> -âlÎtî
> -âljÛn
>
> passîvâ:
> -Âbô
> -âbEres
> -âbÎtû
> -âbÎmû
> -âbimmÎn
> -âbÔnet
>
> Impêrâtîvâ (command):
> actîvâ:
> -
> -Ât
>
> passîvâ:
> -Âr
> -Âmen
>
>
> As usual, the circumflexes should be macrons, and various consonants are
> missing their cedillas.
> Do the conjugations look like the words they'd make would be impossibly
> long?
Nope. Looks really cool :)
I'm wondering though if it'd make sense to have suffixed pronouns the way
some Semitic languages do (I'm not sure if ancient Hebrew had those or not).
Maybe just in certain "tenses":
Regular Latin-derived present tense:
ammo^
amma^
amm
amma^mu^
amma^ti^
amman
Hybridized Latin-derived, Hebrew-inspired past tense:
amma^veg
amma^vtu^
amma^vhac/amma^vha^jic
amma^vno^s
amma^vjo^s
amma^vhi^de^/amma^vhajde^
Well, just an idea.
Also it might be kinda cool to borrow hu and hi right from Hebrew, since the
Latin forms are pretty similar. (Although I do like ha^jic a lot.)
-- Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo
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