Hello, I am searching for a method to make a verb frequentative. I think that I even found the rule, but there are still open-end questions, and I would be grateful if you helped me to complete my analysis ... or tell me that I am completely wrong with everything and that the rule is different.
I know about at least 11 frequentative verbs, but I had to guess about some of their basic forms. I will mark them with*.
So:
basic | frequentative |
---|---|
*car- | cacarra- |
*nem- | nenemma- |
*ul- | ululla- |
*tul- | tutulla- |
*quet- | quequetta- |
sil- | sisíla- |
sar-/psar- | sapsarra- |
*talat- | tatalat- |
tam- | tampa- |
fir- | fifíru- |
lav- | lapsa- |
So, as far as I can evaluate this, this is the rule: The first two letters of the basic verb are duplicated. The last consonant becomes duplicated too and there will be an -a- added.
But these three rules do not describe all frequentative verbs, but just five of them. So we have to ask:
Why is the frequentative form of sil sisíla and not sisilla, Why is it sapsarra and neither sasarra nor psapsarra, Why is the frequentative form of talat tatalat and not tatalatta, Why is the frequentative form of tam tampa and not tatamma, Why is the frequentative form of fir fifíru and not fifirra, And why is the frequentative form of lav lapsa and not lalavva?
Maybe some of these anomalies are caused by the rules of the merging of two consonants? Maybe v + v can not be vv, but must be ps, or anything like that? I'm not sure about this, the only merging rules which I know are those:
-n + t- -> -nt- |
-n + p- -> -mp- |
-n + c- -> -ñc- |
-n + m- -> -mm- |
-n + l- -> -ll- |
-n + r- -> -rr- |
-n + s- -> -ss- |
-l + r- -> -ll- |
-l + n- -> -ld- |
So, do you have any ideas why six of the words do not follow my rule? Is my rule wrong?
I'll be grateful for every answer.
PS. It would also be helpful if you tell more frequentative verbs for I think that just 11 words are insufficient to deduce a general rule.