Faraneit Irregular Verbs

There are only a few irregular verbs in Faraneit, which were mainly produced relatively early in the language's history by sandhi. There is also a developing verbal subclass with a slightly altered conjugation paradigm.

To be - kej

The origins of kej are in the Proto-Rajo-Faraneih roots of *kɒ (existence) and the increasingly pervasive clitic. Early in Faraneit linguistic history the endings of the newly fused verb experienced external sandhi with the still almost always included pronouns. For example, the first person singular form underwent these changes:

• [keʒi ɑv] > [keʒˌjɑv] > [keʒ jɑv] > [keʒ ɑv] (mutation on the pronoun undone by analogy)

Occasionally the results were more intriguing, as with the plural second person irrealis form, which also experienced more internal sound change with speakers anticipating making a similar sound and replacing the first with the same phone:

• [keneɪ maʊli] > [keneɪˌmaʊli] > [keniˌmɔlɪ] > [kenim mɔlɪ] > [kemim mɔlɪ]

These mutated verbal endings replaced the original conjugation pattern even when pronouns were dropped (which quickly became normal as Faraneit developed) or when the verb referred to a noun, rather than pronoun. The resulting paradigm (leaving off the root or various tense infixes) was-

Realis forms:

	Singular	Plural
First Person	-j	-jei
Second Person	-ji	-ji
Third Person	-j	-joa

Irrealis forms:

	Singular	Plural
First Person	-n	-nei
Second Person	-nin	-mim
Third Person	-n	-noat

Optative forms:

	Singular	Plural
First Person	-sc	-tei
Second Person	-tin	-tim
Third Person	-d	-toat

To hold - rej

The verb rej underwent the same external sandhi but with (eventually reversed) additional internal haplology in third person simple past forms. In those specific circumstances, the verbal endings developed thus for singular:

Realis: *[χoʒo don] > [χoʒodon] > [χoʒdon] > [χʒdon] > [χχdon] > [χaχdon] > [χaʁ don] (by analogy with /ʁ/'s allophony)

Irrealis: *[χono don] > [χonodon] > [χondon] > [χndon] > [χandon] > [χan don]

Optative: *[χoto don] > [χotodon] > [χotdon] > [χtdon] > [χqdon] > [χaqdon] > [χaq don]

As a result the simple past, singular third person paradigms for rej, kej, and regular verb bafhej (to sit) can be contrasted-

	Rej	Kej	Bafhej
Realis	rar	koaj	bafhoajoa
Irrealis	ran	koan	bafhoanoa
Optative	raq	koad	bafhoatoa

A similar haplology didn't happened with plural third person and simple past forms of rej, as haplology was only triggered for three consecutive syllables with the same unstressed stressed vowel (the secondary stress typically placed on the pronouns after kej prevented the same situation developing). The diachronics, for this interested were as follows, analogous with other tenses for rej and the same forms for kej:

Realis: *[χoʒo tip] > [χoʒoˌtip] > [χɔʒɔˌtip] > [χɔʒɔ tip]

Irrealis: *[χono tip] > [χonoˌtip] > [χɔnɔˌtip] > [χɔnɔt tip]

Optative: *[χoto tip] > [χotoˌtip] > [χɔtɔˌtip] > [χɔtɔt tip]