Verbal Morphology
The personal desinences of Inggirian are as follows:
Mood | 1s | 2s | 3s | 1p | 2p | 3p
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Irrealis | -Iw | -Is | -In | -IsgAw | -IsAw | -IsIn
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Realis | -Aw | -As | -An | -AsgAw | -AsAn | -AsdAn
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Conditional | -xAw | -xAsI | -xAnI | -xIsgAw | -xIsAw | -xIsIn
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Meanwhile, those of Old Inggirian are as follows:
Positive
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1st | -(e)wa | -(e)gawa
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2nd | -(e)jig | -(e)gajag
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3rd | -(e)g̃ | -(e)seg̃
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Negative
| Singular | Plural
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1st | -(g̃)awi | -(g̃)agawi
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2nd | -(g̃)aji | -(g̃)ajawi
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3rd | -(g̃)a | -(g̃)ajida
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How did the new endings come about?
Possibly the endings exhibited irregular umlaut:
-ewa -ejig -eñ -egawa -egajag -eseñ > -eawa -eijig -eñ -eagawa -eagajag -eseñ > MI -āw -eisg -(i)n -āgāw -āgajg -isin
-ñawi -ñaji -ña -ñagawi -ñajawi -ñajida > -ñaiwi -ñaiji -(ñ)a(ñ) -ñagaiwi -ñajaiwi -ñaijida > MI -ēw -ēs -a(n) -(n)gēw -(n)jēw -ēsda
At this point, some regularization occurs:
Early Middle Inggirian
Positive -āw -eisg -(i)n -āgāw -āgasg -isin, Negative -ēw -ēs -an -ēgēw -ēsēw -ēsdan
Whence Middle Inggirian proper:
Positive -āw -asg -ān -agāw -āgasg -asdan, Negative -ēw -ēs -ēn -egēw -esēw -esdan
Where the jig is up. Late Middle Inggirian:
-Aw -As -An -AsgAw -AgAs ~ -AsgAn -AsdAn; -IAw -IAs -IAn -IsgIAw -IsIAw -IsdAn
By modern times, the falling diphthongs reduce to pure I and we get the modern system.