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Note to self: Soapboy level: catching candy etc --> extra lives etc, but catching orange --> death. (No, Fruit Ninja did not inspire this. If anything its much more similar to an obscure game from the mid 1990s where most fruits are good for you but strawberries kill you.)

pupwala ..... it's raining. Puptwala .... it might rain.

Tatap tabap

Pabappa /ts/ and /ps/

The Pabappa sound change /tʷ/ > /p/ could have caused much /tʷs/ to go to /ps/, but it would be recorded in the dictionary as /ts/ because I was not planning at the time to have Pabappa preserve distinct labialized forms of consonants long enough for the shift to take place. However, going through the entire dictionary I could not find a single example of /ts/ coming from an earlier /tʷs/ (which would have in turn come from the sequence /tus/ in Babakiam). Therefore, I have made no changes to the dictionary.

Pseudo agentive a

Pseudo passive u

S verbs

Special , not serial

Make the word for BED "I return (to)". Thus neither LABAL nor LABWAŽA is correct (think of possessive fos)

NOTES

Things to do

• Wikipedia:Hurro-Urartian_languages is in some ways like Poswa and Pabappa. Uses anaphoric nouns?

• papiba > papi, bobidi > bobi, etc by reanalysis

• a suppletive negative for "to have"

• verbs can have triple person marking by rotating the medial consonant. One of them could be ki>wi>i. That is, it deletes itself.

• tweppi = inhabilitative alt ... call it the disabilitative?

• mention noppuppopi type verbs as if they were a special ial type. .. In orpprating person INSIDE the verb stem (not root

• Search for all pages containing the word "Lenian(s)" and either change it or explain it.

Other notes

Pautu biba ------> Parti ?

"drupe" and German Traub are apparenrly not related.

Inchoative possessive -bibu- (which is equivalentto bib) and cessative possessive ive

The inchoative may be šwu instead, e.g. blempwi "I got a bottle". Or the bib co u ld be padding for the swu . Can also be used for verbs like "teethe" (wiršwu?)

HUGE ERROR IN PABAPPA DICTIOANRY!!!!!!!

Almost ALL /sp/ in Pabappa should be /pp/!!!!! It came from the earlier cluster /sš/, but in the dictionary i forgot to change this to /šš/! The only exceptions are words like pasper "specimen, sample" where it comes from an earlier /səpp/ and words like blespa "conversation, dialogue" where it comes from an earlier /spr/

This is "bad" in the sense that the way I originally conceived the language no longer makes sense. However the change itself makes sense, since it aligns with the behavior of other consonants.

NOTEs3

Remember the -pt- -mn- case markers. Sumerian allows these.

Poswa pepa "room" ----> pf- in possessive syncope. Pabappa beba stays. Thus e.g. Poswa sypfom "in my bedroom" but Pabappa pepubrebibam (sic).

Pios is glossed as WHEN. But how would I say WHOSE? Also consider bubumģpum alternation.

"pul" verbs ... pulma could be one of them

EQUATIVE CASE and DIRECTIVE CASE. in sumerian, " The moving of a constituent towards the beginning of the phrase may be a way to highlight it,[55] as may the addition of the copula to it." (Wikipedia)

The inabilitative mood is the negative of the habilitative. It is paf/taf/af whereas the habilitative is pw/tw/w. Thus e.g. vwampafwabo "I can't eat you." It could be analyzed as an infix of -af- on the habilitative.

Also, the -ep- infix can rescue some fos of the habilitative from sound collisions.

SABER vs CONOCER

Also, remember to ditstinguish SABER vs CONOCER. Poswa's CONOCER verb is biam (from Babakiam bi ŋabibam)

Note, this is prtobably only due to analogy. it would otherwise more likely be bi ŋaibam, without the extra -b-. This would produce the final form biaebam, with two less contractions even though the original starting point was a shorter word.

Biaebambabo.

I know you.

... what is the far more common SABER verb? If WAEMA

Basapiepo waevabo!

I know the answer!

Waevefi!

I knew it!

If MIPU (< mipiu)

Basapiepo mupabo!

I know the answer!

Mupefi!

I knew it!

NOTE, UP ABOVE IS BAD BECAUSE U>R BEFORE ER>U.

Could also use PEPPEMIP or just PEPPE. Peppmip is shorter as conjugation than bare: peppempwafo! Etc. Possibly /peppembwafo/. It would not matter whether the -mip- part is sound-changed to -mep- or not since the vowel is automatically syncoped in both cases.

• Given that Poswa has just šifo for "I dont know", it would be odd for the word meaning "know" to be 3 syllables. going with MIPU is prob' a better choice. It might show up either as mipeb or mipu (which would behave as if mipir-) depending on at which point the stem was hardened.