Votian/Imperfect Tense of Indefinite Voice
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Indefinite voice [1]
[edit | edit source]The indefinite voice describes an action without giving any information about it's agent. Hence an imperfect tense indefinite expression like püvvettī could be translated approximately as: "Somebody cought!". We don't bother ourselves clarifying, who was it.
| Imperfect tense indicative | -ttiin | |
| Imperfect tense indicative negation | epi | -ttu |
- The -ttu ending is actually an indefinite voice past tense participle suffix.
- The -ttiin suffix was composed of an indefinite voice marker -tta, an imperfect tense marker -i and 3. person's singular hen [2].
Morphophonology
[edit | edit source]The final -n was pronounced as a prolongation of the preceding vowel e.g. tek tiin > tehtī ('Somebody did').
- In Votian like dialects of Estonia the long vowels without primary stress have been shortened (influenced by Mid Estonian dialect) e.g. pes tiin > pesti ('Somebody washed.').
The first t is geminated after a short vowel only, elsewhere the suffix is degeminated e.g. ve̮te̮ttī ('Somebody took') vs. jute̮лtī ('Somebody said!') or sȫtī ('Somebody did eat!').
Indefinite voice suffixes take a consonant stem if available.
- Therefore verbal stem is always in the weak grade in front of any indefinite voice marker (except present tense indefinite voice)
- лuget̮tī ('Somebody (did) read.') X лuke̮assa ('Somebody reads.')
- vs. magattī ('Somebody slept.') X makā ('Sleep!' - singular imperative) [3].
In front of any indefinite voice marker (except present tense indefinite voice) the stem-vowel a alternates with e̮ and ä alternates with e e.g. tširjota ttiin > tširjote̮ttī ('Somebody wrote').
Dialectal alternatives
[edit | edit source]- Dialectal alternatives of the negation verb epi were described in the lesson about present tense negation e.g. ep e̮лtu vs. ei e̮lDu ('Nobody was.') .
- Dialectal alternatives of the -ttu suffix are better described in the lesson about Votian participles .
- The Eastern Votic -ttuk suffix is composed of an indefinite voice past tense participle suffix -ttu and a metanalytic negation marker -k borrowed from the present tense negation , where it is a present tense marker .
- The final -k is pronounced as -G only in Eastern Votic dialect e.g. ep e̮лtuG ('Nobody is') [4]. All the other dialects both in Ingria and Estonia have lost the phoneme *k in the end of words e.g. ep e̮лtu.
- The Eastern Votic -ttuk suffix is composed of an indefinite voice past tense participle suffix -ttu and a metanalytic negation marker -k borrowed from the present tense negation , where it is a present tense marker .
- The suffix -ttiin has became
- -tti (after a syllable of primary or secondary stress) e.g. luke ttiin > luetti ('Somebody (did) read' ) , kuivata ttiin > kuivaDetti ('Somebody dried' )
- -t̆ti (after an unstressed syllable) e.g. aja ttiin > ajat̆ti ('Somebody chased' ) - Jõhvi dialect
- -ti (after a voiceless consonant) e.g. las ttiin > lasti ('Somebody shot' )
- -t̆i or -Di (after a voiced consonant or a vowel with primary stress) e.g. tuo ttiin > tuoDi ('Somebody brought' ), men ttiin > menDi ('Somebody went' )
- Alutaguse runic songs [6] have preserved a more archaic suffix *-tta i hen > -tiie, -diie, -die, -tie :
- üteldie, räägitie, valetie ('Somebody said, told, poured') [7]
Other Finnic dialects [8]
[edit | edit source]- Standard Finnish : lue-ttiin ('Somebody read.') / ei lue-ttu ('Nobody read.')
- Vesjegonski Karelian dialects : lugie--tti̮h ('Somebody read.') / ei lugie-ttu ('Nobody read.')
- Central Vepsian dialects : luge-tihe ('Somebody read.') / ī luge-tud ('They did not read.')
- Hevaha Ingrian dialects : lue-ttīn ('Somebody read.') / ei lue-ttu ('Nobody read.')
- Standard Estonian : loe-ti ('Somebody read.') / ei loe-tud ('Nobody read.')
- Räpina South Estonian dialects : loe-tte ('Somebody read.') / es loe-ttaʔ ~ loe-tta ̮as̀ ('Nobody read.')
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Ariste, Paul Vadja keele grammatika. Tartu, 1948. p. 83, 90
- ↑ Laanest, Arvo: Sissejuhatus läänemeresoome keeltesse, Tallinn 1975. p.156
- ↑ Laanest, Arvo: Sissejuhatus läänemeresoome keeltesse, Tallinn 1975. p.173 etc.
- ↑ Ariste, Paul Vadja keele grammatika. Tartu, 1948. p. 90
- ↑ Must, Mari 1987. Kirderannikumurre: häälikuline ja grammatiline ülevaade. p. 263.
- ↑ Must, Mari 1987. Kirderannikumurre: häälikuline ja grammatiline ülevaade. p. 266
- ↑ The collection of J Hurt II 9, 736 (in Estonian Literary Museum)
- ↑ Laanest, Arvo: Sissejuhatus läänemeresoome keeltesse, Tallinn 1975. p.163-181
See also
[edit | edit source]- Grammar of Votian dialects (syllabus)
- Votian indefinite imperative
- Votian present tense indefinite voice
- Votian imperfect tense negation
- Votian Participles
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