You've never been not helpful. I miss the old IRC days.DesEsseintes wrote: ↑14 Dec 2017 02:43gestaltist wrote: ↑13 Dec 2017 17:55Given that after reading this I wrote two pages' worth of ideas, I'd say it was immensely helpful. Thanks Des.
I’m glad if it was helpful! Do share the morfofo you come up with.
I'll probably post some of my ideas soon as I could use advice from people smarter than me. For now, I'll share a small tidbit of my sketch from yesterday which I found pretty cool.
Let's say you have stems ka (1), ka (2), kar (1), kar (2) - synchronically, versions 1 and 2 are identical. Then you have a suffix -o. As a result, you get:
ka1 + o = kao
ka2 + o = karo
kar1 + o = kao
kar2 + o = karo
The reason lies in diachronics, of course. ka1 has always been *ka but ka2 stems from *kat. Word final voiceless stops elided but when adding a suffix, *t underwent lenition instead, resulting in karo.
Conversely, kar1 comes from *kad - word final *d became r but *d lenited away completely between vowels, resulting in kao. kar2 has always been *kar and remains karo when suffixed.