Making Derived Verbs; The Rules.
Note this is highly speculative, as there is no actual written rules left behind by Tolkien. However, some logical guesss may be made based on other rules he had left, such as biconsonantal/triconsonantal root language base. With this, we may speculate that the new derived verb must not exheed the three consonant maxe root form. For example, ugru + -dâ leads to ugrudâ, but azgar + -dâ leads to azgarâ.
Derived Verb Inflection list.
|
Tense |
Formation |
Examples |
|
aorist |
Verb stem but with short final a. |
azgarâ à azgara |
|
continuative-present |
Change variable vowel to u, add -i to the â. |
azgarâ à azgurâi |
|
past |
double the middle consonant, add a stem vowel to break up clusters of more than three consonants and shorten the final vowel (alternatively, use aorist with past auxiliary). |
azgarâ à azaggara azgarâ à mî azgara |
|
Continuative-past |
Continuative-present but with past auxiliary. |
azgarâ à mî azgurâi |
|
future |
Aorist tense but with future auxiliary. |
azgarâ à rô azgara |
|
Continuative-future |
Continuative-present but with future auxiliary. |
azgarâ à rô azgurâi |
|
Plural |
Add -m to verb. |
hiyazgara (“she wages war”) à yiyazgaram (“they wage war”) |