438 7 Verbal morphology
a specialized construction was offered to express senses like 'we became
black'. A T-ka informant offered kaewal-ste-naer, a difficult-to-segment
morphological oddity that seems to involve an apparent preposition-like
extension -aete- that takes 1P1 suffix -naer. There are other prepositions ending
in -e- before pronominal suffix, so one could segment kaewal-set-e-naer, but
the only -set suffix that can occur in such a position is FeSg Participle suffix
-ast, so the construction is obscure. Another T-ka speaker, and the R speaker,
offered a circumlocution with Resit -aemos- 'be, become' and a plural relative
clause: n-aemos [i kaewal-nen] 'we have become black ones'.
7.4.3 Second person subject affixes in imperatives
The 2Sg circumfix t-.-.-asd is omitted in the positive imperative, and the
nonsingular 2nd person markers have special forms (448). The positive
imperatives are normally based on the Imprt stem, which forms part of the
short imperfective stem family. Positive imperatives may also be based on the
LoImpfP stem.
(448) Pronominal Subject Markers in Positive Imperatives
Examples: ajjas 'enter!-Sg', ajjss-ast 'enter!-MaPl\ ajjas-mast
lenter!-2FePl', arley-maetAtaen 'apply-FePl them-Ma!'.
Both 2MaPl and 2FePl Imprt suffixes require penultimate accent
(§3.3.1.1).
V-final stems ending in deletable high vowel hi contract the III with the
suffixal /ae/ of the 2MaPl suffix to produce ae instead of a. Example: Imprt
stem /-aeksi-/ 'eat', Sg Imprt aeks, MaPl Imprt ieks-aet (not #9kss-t), FePl
Imprt aksa-maet. The Short-V Harmony affecting the initial syllable in FePl
Imprt aksS-mast was verified for T-ka and K-d but may not be valid for all
dialects; I recorded aejs-maet 'do!-FePl' for Κ proper. See VV-Contraction
(§3.2.3.3).
2Sg zero (bare stem)
O-aet
O-maet2MaPl
2FePl