Otomi, Mezquital

Conjugate Verbs

Introduction

Northwestern Otomi is a native American language of central Mexico.

The Otomi, Mezquital Verb

Like a typical Otomi language, verbs in Mezquital Otomi inflect for TAM values and for person of the subject by means of a series of clitic words that precede the verbal stem. All verbs inflect according to the same markers. An illustrative example is the verb kuki [kɨhki] ‘get something down’. The aspectual subparadigms for ‘incompletive’ and ‘completive’, as well as the ‘irrealis’ mood, have been treated in the literature as tenses ‘present’, ‘past’ and ‘future’, respectively.

Verblist

a, a¹²ni, ä¹²ni, ä¹²st’i, ä¹²tsi, ä¹²xi, a²-ma²ñʔụ, a²-the, a²fi, ä²hä, a²k-hñu²ni, a²k-sei, a²ka²-te, a²ki, a²n-sei, a²spi, a²t’i, ä²t’i, ä²x-ʔyo, a²xa²-hai, a²yu²nä, a²ʔ-thä, a²ʔtsi, adi, agi, ägi, ai, aki, äkui, ambi, ani, äni, änt’i, at’i, ät’i, ats’i, aʔmi, ba¹²ha, bä¹²n-te, bä²tsi, be¹²he, be¹²ni, be¹²t’e, bẹ¹²xo, be²n-sẹ, be²n-tho, be²ntya, be²ñʔä-juä¹², bi, bis-tho, bo¹², bọ¹²-kuẹ, bo¹²st’i, bo¹²x-jua, bọ²-da, bo²la, bụ, bụ-do, bụ¹²-gu, bụ¹²-ñä, bụ¹²lo, bu¹²nchi, bụ¹²ni, bụ¹²ts’i, bụ¹²ʔtsi, bu²hla, bụ²t’i, bụnt’i, da, dä¹²-hmyä, da¹²do, da¹²dri, da¹²mä²-juä²ni, dä¹²nts’i, dä²hñei, dä²nts’i, dä²xi, dä²ʔs-thu¹²hu, da²ʔthi, däki, dän-tsu, dẹ²-spi, de²sia, deni, dent’i, di¹²nts’i, do¹²ndo, do¹²ni, do²-gu, do²-mbi, do²-zụ, do²-ʔyẹ, dọ²ni, do²ʔmi, dọ²ʔnthi, dont’i, dụ, dụ²-zụ, dụ²hụ, dụʔti.

External Links

• Oto-Manguean Inflectional Class Database