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C₁C₂C₃

Syllables could be of the form C(w/y)V(w/y/N)(C)

V > Ø / #CVC_C
Final high vowels lost
Final *e > i

boda > boda
boda-g > bodg

CǫCraCąk

*√wkt/o 'to order, to command'

*-ar- NMLZ

CVCVCV
nasal theme vowel marks passive voice

C₁enC₂VC₃i > C₁ęC₂VC₃i > C₁ęC₂C₃i > C₁ęC₂C₃
bendVhi > będVhi > będhi > będh > bęęd

wo<n>ko<ra>t-anki > wonkratanki > wõkratãki > wõkratãk
he-wo<n>ko<ra>ta<n>ki > hewnkoratanki > he~wkoratnki > he~wkorantki > he~wkorãtki
C₁C₂C₃

<ra> dative, <-anki> collectivizer

wokot-e > wokti
wokot-i > wokt

dlt

dalat-

dalat-i > dalt
dalat-e > dalti
da<n>lat-e > danlati > dalati

garat-e > gart-i
garat-anki > gartank
ga<ra>rat-i > garrat

hęwkorątki ~ wǫkratąk

*C₁ęC₂C₃i > C₁C₂C₃

he-wenket-i > hew~keti > hęwket >> huket

All right. The obvious thing to do is, reduplication, so let's start there. Since PW stems were of the form CVCVC-, with the last vowel doing whatever it does, there was an epenthetic vowel making it CVCVC<V>CVCVC-, and because progressive vowel harmony this vowel was the theme vowel:

Nonpast

1SG *wokotowokotoy
1PL *wokotowokoton
2 *wokotowokoto
3 *wokotowokotwo

Past

1SG *wokotowokotiy
1PL *wokotowokotin
2 *wokotowokoti
3 *wokotowokotwi

…eugh.

All right, so our first rule, 1. V > Ø / #CVC_CV, doesn't wreck this to an absurd degree:

Nonpast

1SG *woktowokotoy
1PL *woktowokoton
2 *woktowokoto
3 *woktowokotwo

Past

1SG *woktowokotiy
1PL *woktowokotin
2 *woktowokoti
3 *woktowokotwi

And then repeat:

Nonpast

1SG *woktowkotoy
1PL *woktowkoton
2 *woktowkoto
3 *woktowkotwo

Past

1SG *woktowkotiy
1PL *woktowkotin
2 *woktowkoti
3 *woktowkotwi

Thanks to the nature of the root shapes, this is basically regular and generalizable to

C₁TC₂C₃TC₁C₂TC₃-

Which is, still, incredibly hideous. But a thought occurs…suppose this develops like this:

C₁TC₂C₃TC₁C₂TC₃- > C₁TC₂C₃T:C₁C₂TC₃- > C₁TC₂T:C₂TC₃- > C₁TC₂T:yTC₃- by dissimilation > C₁C₂TyTC₃-

Hm.

Hold up. Suppose the finial vowel were *i:

C₁TC₂C₃TC₁C₂TC₃-i > C₁TC₂C₃TC₁C₂TC₃, rule 2 doesn't apply, neither does rule 3, nor rule 4. Rule 5 would apply but this isn't in the ultima, so I have a little freedom here…no, wait, technically it is. But only in the one past form…????

C₁TC₂C₃TC₁C₂TC₃-oy > C₁TC₂C₃TC₁C₂TC₃-oy (huh, rule 2 does not apply here…) > C₁TC₂C₃TC₁C₂TC₃-oy > C₁TC₂C₃TC₁C₂TC₃-ô > C₁TC₂C₃TC₁C₂C₃o unless something drastic happens. Well, OK, try the consonant contortery I proposed above: C₁TC₂C₃TC₁C₂TC₃-oy > C₁TC₂TC₂TC₃-oy > C₁TC₂TyTC₃-oy. But where from there? The ending is going to end up as -ô, and then the vowel in the penult, being short, is going to drop, leaving us with the ultimate form C₁oC₂oyC₃o. The 1PL will be the same, but nasal C₁oC₂oyC₃ǫ.

Ah, I see what's going on: The 2 form is giving me a bluescreen. C₁TC₂C₃TC₁C₂TC₃-o > C₁TC₂T:C₂TC₃-o which will ultimately give us C₁C₂TyTC₃o. So for √wkto it'd be wkoyoto.

3: C₁TC₂C₃TC₁C₂TC₃-wo woktowkotwo (Ugh, I wouldn't want to say that either) > wokôkotwo > wokôkôto…hmm. I would have had wokôyôto.

You know what, it was better with the consonants.

wokoyto : wokoytǫ : wkoyoto : wokôyôto

vs.

wokokto : wokoktǫ : wkokoto : wokôkôto

as against unreduplicated

wkto : wktǫ : wokto : wkoto

If we take the syncope rule as written then the first syllable vowel in 3 drops.

Interestingly…if we did go the -y- route:

1: C-C-CV : CVCVyCV
2: CVC-CV : CCVyVCV
3: C-CVCV : CCVyVCV

This is a problem, as there is a hash collision between 2 and 3! More abstractly, the difference between 1 and 3 (the difference in nasality in 1 is ignored for the sake of convenience) is that the second vocalic slot is filled in the latter; between 1 and 2, the presence of a vowel in the first vocalic slot. It happens that, in the 1 and 3 forms, it's predictable on both sides: CCCV : CVCVyCV, CCVCV : CVCVyVCV. So, perhaps we can conclude that we can blow this thing apart by swapping the -CV-? Which would give us

1: C-C-CV : CVCVyCV
2: CVC-CV : CVyCVCV
3: C-CVCV : CCVyVCV

or, more concretely

1: wkto : wokoyto
2: wokto : wokyoto
3: wkoto : wkoyoto

This will totally not cause problems in the near future.

Also, we had that infix *-rV- that did…something…

Nonpast

1SG *wokorotoy > wokrotoy > wokrotôy > wokrto
1PL *wokoroton > no
2 *wokoroto > wokroto > wokroto ???
3 *wokorotwo > wokrôto ≥ wkroto

Past

1SG *wokorotiy > wokrti
1PL *wokorotin > ugh
2 *wokoroti > wokroti > wokrot
3 *wokorotwi > wokrôto > wkroto (hash collision with 3NPST. Again, I can live with it.)

Oh dang I have to do this with the reduplicated forms…uh…

Nonpast

1SG *wokorotowokotoy > wokrotowokotoy (?!) > wokrotowokto
1PL *wokorotowokoton
2 *wokorotowokoto > wokrotowokoto > wokrotowokoto
3 *wokorotowokotwo > wokrotowkoto

UGLY. I need to think of something creative but internally consistent.

CVCrVCV-CVCCV // CVCrCV
CVCrVCV-CVCVCV // CVCrVCV
CVCrVCV-CCVCV// CCrVCV

1: C-C-CV : CVCVyCV
2: CVC-CV : CVyCVCV
3: C-CVCV : CCVyVCV

This implies that the operation is basically a matrix:

XXV > VV^yV
v
VrV > ?

VXV > V^yVV
v
V^rVV > ?

XVV > XV^y2V
v
X^rVV > ?

wkto : wokoyto :: wokrto : wokroyto
wokto : woykoto :: wokroto : woykroto
wkoto : wkoyoto :: wkroto : wkroyoto

But, since the verbnoun would stand a greater chance of becoming not quite replaced because reasons…

CVCVC-*ay, which gained a suffix *-nki in the plural, but we're concerned elsewise. wokotay > woktay > woktâ > wkta. This would probably be used for a few older nouns, most of them being reformed by analogy with the plural to something more like wokta.
wokotowokotay > woktowokotay > woktowokta, maybe by analogy woktawokta?

So CVCVC-aynki. Still technically within phonotactics, but a massive beast. Let's use *√wkto again, why not. wokotaynki > woktaynk > woktaynki. OK. Before applying Rule 5, we note this cluster really sucks, and drop the first element, leaving us > woktank. And then, pursuant to Rule 7, -VNC sequences nasalized the vowel (unless it was restored by analogy in another form). So…woktąk. But wokotowokotaynki > woktowokotaynki > woktowokotaynk > woktowokotąk…nah, we'll go with woktawoktąk.

All right, so we've got these basic…transformations, I guess. The base, the reduplicand (2), the *r-stems (R), and the *r-stem reduplicands (R2).

OK. Progress. Compare that with the un…whatevered forms.

Past

1SG *wokorotowokotiy
1PL *wokorotowokotin
2 *wokorotowokoti
3 *wokorotowokotwi

Oh. Uh. Verbal nominalizers. Right. Shoot.

OK, so we have our stem *wokot-, and to that we add something. It may have been…actually, it must've been an affix that postdates the vowel harmony thing? It ate it, whatever it was.

Nonpast

1SG *wokotoy
1PL *wokoton
2 *wokoto
3 *wokotwo

Past

1SG *wokotiy
1PL *wokotin
2 *wokoti
3 *wokotwi