A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

534 8 Verbal derivation

(564) Unprefixed Stative Abstractives

Imprt gloss abstractive gloss

a. <H> melody

abdan 'be crippled' baddan 'being crippled'

Irlal 'need clothes' rallal 'needing clothes'

ajraz 'be stingy' jarraz 'stinginess'

aksan 'dislike' kassan 'dislike' (noun)

akyad 'have a grudge' kayyad 'grudge'

aslad I 'pester' sallad I 'being a pest'

b. with penultimate accent and final α

laegkaem 'ride double' bqkama 'riding double'

The forms in (564.a) are similar in shape to the masculine abstractives in
(562.b) above, notably in having strict melody.
For unprefixed sendad 'laziness' see the CeCCaC nominal pattern (not
always Stative), (595.a) in §8.12.2, below.
Another probably deverbal abstractive type (used instead of a VblN), with
Fe prefix t- and FeSg suffix -t, is typical of color adjectives (and some other
adjectives, especially those denoting surface qualities). The adjectives have
associated verbs in the same word-family. In (565) I give a number of
examples, using the PerfP to represent the verb (modifying "adjectives" are
participles based on the verb). The abstractive most often has melody, but
cases with melody (hence with a instead of ae) are recorded at least as
variants for a few adjectival verbs with PerfP CaCCaC- (565.a). All of the
abstractives are characterized by gemination of Cx, and the stem's final-
syllable V is short in all cases.

(565) Abstractives for Color and Surface Adjectival Verbs

PerfP gloss abstractive

a. Stems with PerfP CaCCaC-

falta-*·- 'be flat and wide' t-aefföeltaeq-q (Τ)

t-affaltaeq-q (A-grm)

madray- 'be small' t-ammadri-t-t

[also t-aemmaiidri-t-t]

matkay- 'be small' t-ammatki-t

maymar- 'be runty' t-ammaymar-t

[also t-semmaeymaer-t]

mazzaj-mazzaj- 'be deaf t-asmmszzask-k (T)

t-ammazzak-k (A-grm R)