A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

7.3 Verb classes and irregular verbs 417

(415) 'goto'

PerfP

Shlmpf

Imprt

LoImpfP

VblN

-akka-

/-aekki-/ (3MaPl skks-n)

sekk

-t-dkk- (/-t-dkkA-/

t-ikaw-t (A-grm Iki)

7.3.2.7 'go' (jjl,y/ms)

The intransitive verb -vjli> 'go' is inflected like other verbs of the same shape.
T-ka and T-md have j, while all other dialects checked (A-grm I K-d K-f R)
have g.

(416) 'go'

The imperative is not in common use. The Shlmpf (and Imprt) show the
typical resyllabification (§3.2.4, §3.2.3) of -vPQu- verbs of the α/ι subclass
when Q is more sonorous than P.
There is another 'go' verb Vms. It is used chiefly in the imperative ('go!'),
and therefore comes very close to being a suppletive Imprt stem (cf. the
suppletive Imprt for 'come', §7.3.2.8, below). Nevertheless, a full set of
paradigmatic forms for Vms does exist (417), with senses like 'budge, move;
set off, leave'.

LoImpfP

VblN

PerfP

Shlmpf

Imprt

-sjla-

/-aejli-/ (3MaSg i-jal, 3MaPl ajb-n)

ajal (2MaPl aejl-aet)

-jail- (A-grm -gdlla-)

t-a-pllaw-t (A-grm also e-gaelli)

(417) 'go'

PerfP -ammussa-

Shlmpf /-ammussi-/ (3MaSgl-mmuss)

Imprt muss (2MaPl müss-aet, 2FePl mussa-maet)

LoImpfP -t-lmassu-

For the morphophonology of the stems see §7.3.1.14, e.g. -jussu- 'go

south'.