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;
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v
boil
pinjuju
pinju
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