
Conlangery #124: Old Irish (natlang)
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How to Conjugate a Verb Form With a Strong Recessive Accent
In some parts of Indo-European at least verbs were all in clinic. They had no accent of their own. This really pops up in Vedic, certain weirdness of ancient Greeks seem to explain this and it looks like Irish just ran with this idea. It's amazing that the stress could be so far from the stem itself. I mean, the verb stem is like so far off to the right with all of these preverbs piled on. The famous statement about old Irish from some grand old man of Indo European is that learning old Irish is like mowing the lawn. You have to do periodically. Right. So you're learning a simple conjugation, you have to learn what
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