Verb Marking
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Eonic Arraniol had a simple 3 tense prefix system: Past, Present and Future
Examples:
Past Tense:
Ca'egaro “walked”
Caqoroġe “talked / ate”
Present Tense:
'Egaro “walk”
Qoroġe “talk / eat”
Future Tense:
Tu'egaro “will walk”
Tuqoroġe “will talk / will eat”
Eonic Arraniol had an 8 aspect prefix system: Progressive, Perfective, Imperfective, Habitual, Descriptive, Inceptive, Terminative and Iterative.
Example:
Na'i migarvwa reġa “I am cooking food”
Na'i 'inagarvwa reġa “I am beginning to cook food”
Ya'i ligarvwa reġa “He used to cook food”
Eonic Arraniol had a 3 voice prefix system: Passive, Intensive and Imperative.
Example:
Na'i cagagarvwa reġa “The food is cooked by me”
Do'egaro “Walk (command)”
Xa'ilemotor “Die (forcefully)”
Eonic Arraniol had a 4 valency suffix system: Causative, Reflexive, Reciprocal and importantly, Negation.
Example:
Na'i tvgarvwaso “I will cook myself”
'Amvnawar 'eretvlamvnici “Two humans are looking at each other”
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.