v. (IV)

menḥatóˀo ˁaf yefárrag áḷḷaʰ ˁíggoʰ deš di-saˁ ˁíggoʰ fídid ‘So he went on doing this until God relieved them, and the ninth goat, a hornless one, gave birth’ (CSOL I 29:29)

tóˀo éreḥ degdɛ́geʰ áˁyeg érhon ‘When they reached the barren place, the goats gave birth’ (CSOL I 6:13)

pass. ˁö́wag (yeˁóyog/ľiˁóg) 

The verb is adduced in the feminine for semantic reasons. The 3 sg. masc. form áˁyeg is known from those rare collocations where grammatically masculine nouns denoting female animals are used, such as áˁyeg éẓ̂yaˁ ‘a young female goat gave birth' (CSOL II:420).

The verb exhibits several morphological peculiarities. While in some slots of the perfect paradigm it is conjugated as a regular verb with the root ˁyg, elsewhere it behaves idiosyncratically: the causative prefix is dropped, and y is replaced with i plus gemination of g: 3 sg. f. ˁíggoʰ, 3 du. m. ˁíggoʰ (alongside the regular aˁyégoʰ), 3 du. f. ˁiggέtoʰ. In the imperfect, it employs a monosyllabic base C₁C₂eC₃ (3 sg. f. táˁyeg) instead of the expected bisyllabic C₁aC₂oC₃. Since the base C₁yeC₃ is characteristic of basic stem verbs with C₂=y (Naumkin et al. 2016a:34–36), we may be faced with a mixed paradigm whose imperfect forms are borrowed from the basic stem. Still another specific feature of ˁíggoʰ is an idiosyncratic strategy of the omission of the prefix te- in the imperfect, which affects the consonant t-, but not the vowel following it: áˁyeg ‘it (a goat) gives birth’. A similar phenomenon is observed in the stem II of the same root (see Naumkin et al. 2019a:70).

See further Bulakh et al. 2020:282, Bulakh et al. 2021:285, fn. 105.

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