Etymologies
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Verbal Morphology



The personal desinences of Inggirian are as follows:

Mood1s2s3s1p2p3p
Irrealis-Iw-Is-In-IsgAw-IsAw-IsIn
Realis-Aw-As-An-AsgAw-AsAn-AsdAn
Conditional-xAw-xAsI-xAnI-xIsgAw-xIsAw-xIsIn


Meanwhile, those of Old Inggirian are as follows:

Positive
SingularPlural
1st-(e)wa-(e)gawa
2nd-(e)jig-(e)gajag
3rd-(e)g̃-(e)seg̃


Negative
SingularPlural
1st-(g̃)awi-(g̃)agawi
2nd-(g̃)aji-(g̃)ajawi
3rd-(g̃)a-(g̃)ajida


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.