v. (II)

ˁag ˁayg óˀoz di-ˀaḷ-ˀerḳóḥoʰ ˁífef ‘A man helped a goat who could not deliver ِits kid’ (Naumkin et al. 2019b:89)

The verb is characterized by the presence of y in the perfect and imperfect (except for the 2 and 3 pl.m. forms) and by its (optional) loss in the jussive. The jussive paradigm of ˁayg, with the stress on the prefix, is, in all probability, borrowed from the conjugation of stem IV (cf. ˁíggoʰ). The verb ˁayg is also characterized by an idiosyncratic strategy of the omission of the prefix te-, which affects the consonant t- only. Note that the source verb ˁíggoʰ ‘to give birth (animal)’, belonging to the IV stem, shows the same idiosyncrasy (Naumkin et al. 2019a:70, with fn. 13).

• (3 sg. f.) ˁíggoʰ to give birth (animals)
• ˁag 1. man; 2. husband; 3. someone
• ˁážeʰ 1. woman; 2. wife
• ˁouyέghɛn 1. boy; 2. son
• ˁougénoʰ 1. girl; 2. daughter
• ˁáyog time for bearing, for bringing forth issue (about animals)