User:Mellohi!/Old Irish verb reclassification
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I am planning to implement a sweeping reform of how we categorize Old Irish verbs on Wiktionary, in order to better capture the complicated inflection patterns on these verbs.
The old schema[edit]
Present stem classes[edit]
Currently under Category:Old Irish verbs by present formation, we have the Thurneysen schema for present stem classification:
- Category:Old Irish class A I present verbs
- Category:Old Irish class A II present verbs
- Category:Old Irish class A III present verbs
- Category:Old Irish class B I present verbs
- Category:Old Irish class B II present verbs
- Category:Old Irish class B III present verbs
- Category:Old Irish class B IV present verbs
- Category:Old Irish class B V present verbs
The new schema[edit]
I am going to replace this system with a much more detailed and layered system, derived from that of McCone.
Present stem classes[edit]
The present stem classes will be drastically reformed. Thurneysen's monikers will be disposed of and replaced by McCone's. Class A II, B I, and hiatus verbs will be split. Additionally, there will be separate categories for deponent and non-deponent verbs of the same class.
- Category:Old Irish strong verbs (B)
- Category:Old Irish S1 verbs (B I; no deponents in this category)
- Category:Old Irish class S1a verbs (default)
- Category:Old Irish class S1b verbs (Verbs with stem-final dental consonants, which is depalatalized and delenited in compounds)
- Category:Old Irish class S1c verbs (canaid-type verbs without any palatalization of the stem-final consonant in the present stem except in the 3sg conjunct)
- Category:Old Irish class S1d verbs (B III, nasal-affixed strong verbs)
- Category:Old Irish S2 verbs (B II)
- Category:Old Irish class S2 present verbs (B II non-deponent)
- Category:Old Irish class S2 deponent present verbs (B II deponent)
- Category:Old Irish S1 verbs (B I; no deponents in this category)
- Category:Old Irish weak verbs (A I + A II)
- Category:Old Irish W1 verbs (A I)
- Category:Old Irish W2 verbs (A II)
- Category:Old Irish W2a verbs (no stem alternations between -o- and -u-)
- Category:Old Irish class W2a present verbs
- Category:Old Irish class W2a deponent present verbs (lots of -igidir derivatives here)
- Category:Old Irish W2b verbs (stem alternation between -u- in the present and future vs. -o- in the preterite and subjunctive)
- Category:Old Irish class W2b present verbs
- Category:Old Irish class W2b deponent present verbs (generally populated by ·cuirethar compounds)
- Category:Old Irish W2a verbs (no stem alternations between -o- and -u-)
- Category:Old Irish hiatus verbs (A III)