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Verb Marking

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Eonic Arraniol had a simple 3 tense prefix system: Past, Present and Future

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Examples:

  1. Past Tense:

    1. Ca'egaro “walked”

    2. Caqoroġe “talked / ate”

  2. Present Tense: 

    1. 'Egaro “walk”

    2. Qoroġe “talk / eat”

  3. Future Tense: 

    1. Tu'egaro “will walk”

    2. Tuqoroġe “will talk / will eat”

Eonic Arraniol had an 8 aspect prefix system: Progressive, Perfective, Imperfective, Habitual, Descriptive, Inceptive, Terminative and Iterative.

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Example:

  1. Na'i migarvwa reġa “I am cooking food”

  2. Na'i 'inagarvwa reġa “I am beginning to cook food”

  3. Ya'i ligarvwa reġa “He used to cook food”

Eonic Arraniol had a 3 voice prefix system: Passive, Intensive and Imperative.

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Example:

  1. Na'i cagagarvwa reġa “The food is cooked by me”

  2. Do'egaro “Walk (command)”

  3. Xa'ilemotor “Die (forcefully)”

Eonic Arraniol had a 4 valency suffix system: Causative, Reflexive, Reciprocal and importantly, Negation.

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Example:

  1. Na'i tvgarvwaso “I will cook myself”

  2. 'Amvnawar 'eretvlamvnici “Two humans are looking at each other”

  3. Yeqa mivinvmvne'e “She is not sleeping”

Unique Case for the Negation Suffix -ne'e

The suffix -ne'e is used as a verbal negation, but overtime the aspect slowly shifted semantically to refer as "lacking" or "without", which it would eventually became a privative case.