Proto-Verb-Lover

PVL vocabulary

=Verbs=

In the prefixes which have three forms, the second form is used when the first syllable of the predicate contains /ɑ/ and the third form if used when the first syllable of the predicate contains a velar fricative.

=Possession=

Possession in PVL is made with a subordinate clause following the possessed noun, a construction roughly meaning "X which to Y belongs". The possessed noun is followed by the subordinator *savis which is followed by the possessor, marked for the locative, followed by the verb *alī̃Zu- ("to belong to", intransitive form of *alīn-):


 * aZ savis wɯɣuvuain wɯsɘNualī̃Zu (stick -son -belong-) "the son's stick"