176 4 Nominal and pronominal morphologyaslsib aslslb-taen 'pocket' (<Ar.)
[also alsibb, PI alsibb-aen]
aelhadd aelhad-taen (T-ka) 'Sunday' (<Ar.)
[PI aelxadda-taen (A-grm), aslxadda-taen (K-d)]
alhaerr alhaer-taen 'fury' (<Ar.)
ummafin umma?in-taen 'tea gear' (<Ar.)
maersin maersin-taen 'machine' (<Fr.)
taemaeyy taemaey-taen 'sieve' (<Fr.)
ewaenn ewaenna-tasn 'tree sp.'
wasil wasll-taen 'leopard' (T-ka)
xarub xanib-taen (R) 'marrow'
zaeraeww zaeraew-taen 'wild millet' (<Songhay)
zaewaeyy zaewaey-tsen 'tiger fish' (<Songhay)b. nonfinal accent in Sg
aelmaskaer aelmaekaer-taen 'result' (<Ar.)
kumbater kumbater-tasn 'potato' (<Fr.)
[variant kumbater-aen]
safaedaen safaedaen-tasn 'firefly'This final-syllable accent pattern is fairly minor, affecting a few stems that
fit poorly into Tamashek plural morphology. Borrowed prefixless bisyllabic
stems with first-syllable accent have unaugmented -aen, like native stems of
similar shape; an example is kubkub ' machete blade' (<Fr coupe-coupe), PI
kübkub-aen. Regular nouns that begin with vocalic prefixes reliably take -aen
(MaPl) or -en (FePl). Contrast unprefixed baeww above with the regular
prefixed noun ae-baww 'straw', Pll-baww-aen (with -aen rather than -taen).
Again note the final degemination before the suffixal t in (149.a), e.g.
'fury' and 'sieve'.
ae-ηα 'Leptadenia bush' has a plural l-na-tasn with a less common variant
1-natt-aen. The former can be taken as a regular affixal plural, but the latter
looks like an ablaut plural of type 1-CaCC-aen. See (§4.1.2.26) for this and a
similar plural for ae-ja 'waterbag at well'.
4.1.2.7 C-final Sg with aw/iw extension before PI suffix
Certain VblN patterns, and a few other nouns, have a C-final singular, but
extend the stem with ...aw- before MaPl suffix -aen or FePl suffix -en. The α is
reminiscent of the stem-final α in unsuffixed ablaut plurals, but it would be
difficult to actually combine the two plural types. In several cases, a in the
syllable preceding the α is syncopated. Examples in (150).