Details
General
| Morphemic form: | V{-git} |
| New orthography: | -git, -it, -tsit, -ssit |
| Old orthography: | -git, -it, '-tit, '-ssit |
| Sources: | [7, 8, 10, 11] |
| Combinations: | View list |
| Left sandhi: | Fusional, Irregular |
Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
This is the intransitive imperative 2sg ending. The mood marker is {Ø}, so this ending is the pure 2sg person marker.
Left sandhi:
This ending is truncative, except on q-stems where /qg/ regularly fuse to /r/. This in principle also includes t(ə)-stems, where truncativity will trigger the insertion of /ə/, although t(ə)-stems are usually divalent and therefore usually will take a transitive ending instead. Furthermore, it has some idiosyncratic sandhi rules:
On ə-stems with ə-contractive inflection, /g/ may change to /j/, i.e. /əg/ ⇒ /əj/ ⇒ [ij], which means this /j/ will not be written in neither the old, nor the new orthography. This behaviour is described as optional in Schultz-Lorentzen [8], which lists both paariit and paarigit as possible forms for this ending on {pairə}V.
On t-stems, /g/ may optionally change to /t/ and join additively onto the stem. This behaviour is described as optional in Schultz-Lorentzen [8], which lists both tikigit and tikítit (new orthography: tikitsit) as possible forms for this ending on {təkit}V.
On t(ə)-stems, the combination could seemingly become [cc] in older language; for example annaassit (old orthography: ánáussit), 'save thyself!', from {annaut(ə)}V. This word is for example seen in Luke 23:37 in Fabricius' translation of the New Testament [1] (Fabricius' orthography: illińgnik nangminek annaurſeet). One possible explanation is that truncativity here causes the /ə/ to be injected, and then /təg/ ⇒ /təj/ by the above special rule for vowel-stems, and but then /ə/ is elided for some reason (e.g. similar to the HTR-morpheme V{ði}V on t(ə)-stems), and then /tj/ ⇒ [jj] ⇒ [cc].
Schultz-Lorentzen [8] does not describe the inflection of t(ə)-stems, which he does not distinguish from true t-stems, so it is not clear whether this behaviour was still (optionally) possible at his time of writing. However, it is likely not used nowadays, but may be seen in older texts.
All of the above rules are optional or archaic today.
Meanings and examples