εBoze verb
morphology VI
vThere
is considerable evidence that the earlier form of the affix was something like dʒV- or zV-which
still persists
in certain verbs but is also retained as an unproductive morpheme. For example;
v
v
Words such as tunzu,
‘to pound’ which today show no sg./pl. opposition probably retain this unproductive morpheme, as #-tun is
a Niger-Congo root