Stress shift in OMUM is irregular

Started by Prrton, September 26, 2010, 09:40:42 PM

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I've heard «omum» pronounced by K. Pawl both with stress on O and on U. This is not 'normal' for Na'vi, so I asked him. And he answered:

Quote from: Paul Frommer to Prrton via e-mail 26 Sept., 2010
Your ears didn't deceive you. I vacillated on the stress for this word. And after thinking about it, I want to make this an exception to the general rule that the stress doesn't shift for derived forms. (A few odd quirks and exceptions make a language interesting, kefyak? <l>)

So for omum only:

When the word is in root form, the stress is on the second syllable:

Oe oMUM. Ke oMUM oe.

But in derived and inflected forms, it shifts to the o:

New oe iVOmum.

NìawNOmum . . .

Etc.

P.


So there we have it. An irregular verb.

Yeay! (I think)  8)



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Irayo ;) Slä oe frakrr pamltxe nì'aw san omum sìk sì san ivomum sìk.. Slä set olomum oel futa oer tìkxey lamu ;D

Thanks ;) I always said only "omum" and "ivomum". But now I've learned that I was mistaken  ;D
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Hmm eltur tìtxen si. Lam oeru stxong, slä Karyu Pawlìl ayhorenit ngivop!

Hmm, interesting. It seems strange to me, but Paul makes the rules!

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Nyx

I've been saying it like that too. Weird! And yay for irregularity :D

Kì'eyawn

*sigh* I've been doing exactly the opposite *headdesk*

Oh well...

And hey, hasn't anybody else noticed there's a new blog post at Na'viteri?  WTF, Na'vi-bot?
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Quite the find.  Never would've guessed that quickly....

Quote from: Kì'eyawn on September 27, 2010, 08:50:56 AM
And hey, hasn't anybody else noticed there's a new blog post at Na'viteri?  WTF, Na'vi-bot?

Sran, and the page now has quite a few comments on it.
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Quote from: Kì'eyawn on September 27, 2010, 08:50:56 AM
*sigh* I've been doing exactly the opposite *headdesk*

Oh well...

And hey, hasn't anybody else noticed there's a new blog post at Na'viteri?  WTF, Na'vi-bot?

Yup, I wrote that thing so it posts updates from Na'viTeri in the /updates/ section.