Nouns and Verbs in Inglish: aie, eie
In Inglish, verbs that end in -aie or -eie follow specific patterns in their conjugation and noun derivation.
Both -aie and -eie verbs alter their endings in the progressive tense while maintaining certain consistencies in noun formation.
Verb Conjugation Patterns:
Present Tense: The verbs end in -aie or -eie for most pronouns.
Third-person singular present:
-aie verbs retain the full -aie ending and add -s (e.g., plaies, delaies).
-eie verbs drop the final -e and add -s directly to the -ei (e.g., conveis, obeis).
Past Tense:
-aie verbs: Retain the full -aie and add -d for the past tense (e.g., plaied, delaied).
-eie verbs: Drop the final -e and add -d (e.g., conveid, obeid).
Progressive Tense:
The ending -ie is dropped and replaced by -yiŋ.
-aie Examples:
Infinitive: ta plaie (to play), ta delaie (to delay), ta praie (to pray)
Third-person Singular Present: plaies, delaies, praies
Past Tense: plaied, delaied, praied
Progressive Tense: playiŋ, delayiŋ, prayiŋ
-eie Examples:
Infinitive: ta conveie (to convey), to obeie (to obey), ta preie (to prey)
Third-person Singular Present: conveis, obeis, preis
Past Tense: conveid, obeid, preid
Progressive Tense: conveyiŋ, obeyiŋ, preyiŋ
Verbs such as ta pôveie (to purvey) and ta sôveie (to survey) maintain stress on the -ey syllable in their progressive forms:
Progressive Tense: pôveyiŋ, sôveyiŋ
Nouns derived from -aie and -eie verbs retain the -y from the verb stem, ensuring consistency across forms.
However, some nouns, particularly those derived from -eie verbs, have specialized forms with suffixes like -ance or -ence.
-aie Examples:
play, playeur
dismay, dismayeur
layeur, layor
pay, payeur
ta praie → prair (outlier)
slayeur
-eie Examples:
prey, sley, sôvey, pôvey
Some outliers with specialized forms:
convéance
obéance
pôvéance
Some verbs, such as ta saye (to say) and ta maye (to may), deviate from the standard patterns.
ta saye:
Present Tense: sais
Past Tense: said
Progressive Tense: sayiŋ
Noun: say
maye:
Present Tense: maye
Past Tense: mîht (no progressive form)
Noun: mîht (might)