The
Participial Stem
The circumflected accents
are used to mark vowels' length.
For practical purposes, we may consider
the Participial Stem to be derived from the Present stem by adding the
characteristic –t-, cf.:
-
amâ- + t = amât-
-
delê- + t = delêt-
-
duc- + t = duct-
-
audî- + t = audît-
The most verbs of the II conjugation
form the Participial Stem by changing the thematic vowel –ê-
to –î-, cf.:
-
habê- + t = habît-
-
monê + t = monît-
The verbs of the III conjugation often
change the last consonant of their Present Stem before the characteristic
–t-, cf.:
-
leg- + t = lect-
-
reg- + t = rect-
-
scrib- + t = script-
Sometimes adding –t- may bring about
considerable transformation of the consonant groups, cf.:
-
mitt- + t = miss-
-
vid- + t = vis-
The verbs with infixal –n- in their
Present
Stem drop it when forming the Participial Stem,
cf.:
-
tang- + t = tact-
-
string- + t = strict-
-
vinc- + t = vict-.
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