Does anybody happen to know the rule for forming verbal nouns in Manx? In that language, several verb tenses are formed by preposing an auxiliary verb to verbal noun, but I've had no luck looking for rules on how to form it. For example, the noun form of the verb ee "to eat" is gee, while the verb tilgey "to throw" apparently doesn't undergo any
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You have to keep in mind that even though the Celtic verbal noun is often used the way a gerund or infinitive would be in English, it's not actually a verbal inflection. It's a derived form and these are more variable, as you can see from comparable English examples like see -> sight, lose -> loss, live -> life, and so forth.
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>>it's not actually a verbal inflection. It's a derived form and these are more variable
Now that's... discouraging.
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I sometimes mess up synthetic forms even in my native language and I completely and utterly failed to learn the Spanish tense system, effectively wasting two years in university. Inflection is definitely not my thing :)
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