Conglanging for The Opal Mask post 4

[becka_sutton]

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*Wonders how many people she's boring with this.*

Pronouns will have to wait because I made a word! *dun dun dun*

It's a verb and I made it primarily to play with inflections.

So what is this word?

Blanot (blan-ot) which is the simple present tense of dance. I think -ot may be indicative of verbness.

I forget to mention this yesterday but verbs do not inflect for person or number.

Now let's get down to business.

Inflection for tense:

Verbs in language one are very regular and inflect via ablaut. If the wiki article is a bit complex then here's an example from English "sing, sang, sung". :-)

This is where those dipthongs from the first post come into things.

• Blanot - dance
• Blainot - danced
• Blaunot - will dance

Inflection for aspect:

Verbs inflect for aspect as follows:

• Simple - unmarked
• Perfect - suffix lo - Blanotlo - has danced, Blainotlo - had danced, Blaunotlo - will have danced.
• Habitual - suffix ta Blanotta - dances, Blainotta - used to dance, Blaunotta - will have been dancing.
• Progressive - suffix ap Blanotap - is dancing, Blainotap - was dancing, Blaunotap - will be dancing.

Inflection for mood:

• Any of these can be made negative by adding another prefix an.
• Indicative - unmarked. Negative- An.  Anblanot (not dance)
• Subjunctive - prefix za - zablanot (should dance) etc. Negative Anza. Anzablanot (should not dance)
• Opative - prefix am - amblanot (want to dance). Negative  Anam. Anamblanot (don't want to dance)
• Imperitive - prefix aka - akablanot (dance!) (not usually applied to the past tense obviously). Negative Anaka. Anakablanot (don't dance!). I suspect Anaka may come to be used on its own to mean "Stop!" in later languages if not Language one.

I should probably make one of those verb conjugating table things now. Maybe over the weekend and with a few more verbs. I really should try to do that pronoun post as well.