MAKING SNOWSHOES
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Dena'ina: Ghetnalggenda gesh detghigget.
English: When it's dry, you drill the frame holes.

Mode/Aspect = Transitional (T) + Mode + Perfective (P)

  Object Object Prefix Positions Stem
Thematic Gender Inceptive Mode/Aspect
T+Mode+P
Inner Subject Pronoun Classifier
Morphemes Ghetnalggenda gesh de Ø t ghe i Ø gget
Morpheme Changes           gh      
e deletes to avoid double vowels
English Dry wood webbing holes in snowshoe frame actions involving wood plural objects; holes future you (singular)  

drill object with pointed instrument (drill from either side)

Mode: future

Aspect: reversative


Verb Theme Object + Gender + Ø classifier + ggat (root)
Meaning stab, spear, poke, prick, lance, drill object with pointed instrument
Theme Class Successive
Type  

Stem Set: Root = ggat, Tag = stab
  Mode
Aspect Imperfect Perfect Future Optative
Momentaneous ggat ggat ggeł ggat/ggit
Reversative gget ggat gget gget
Semelfactive gget gget gget gget
Durative ggat ggat ggat ggit
Perambulative ggeł ggat ggat ggat
Repetitive gget gget    
Progressive ggeł gget ggeł  
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