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Guram Kartozia
The Formation of the Optative Mood in Megrelian
Summary
The Phoneme n is lost at the very end of Megrelian words (personal pronouns,
proper names, verbs) with the exception of the subjunctive forms of the verb where
the final consonant n is extended either by the vowel i or in the form of the palatal
phoneme. i added to the formant n is the emphatic vowel and not the enclitic
conjunction ni “if “ simplified by the loss of the consonant element, as I. Kipshidze
thought. He considered that n was preserved in optative mood as well. Megrelian
optative doÍilun(i), qomučun(i) are equivalent to modern Georgian momkḷa “He
killed me”, momca “He gave it to me", where the grammatical subject is lost as
well. It is clear that modern forms have evolved by the contamination of earlier
*dom’viln > *dom’vilin, *qomomčn > *qomomčin and later doÍilu, qomuču forms.
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