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| ''zarcoz'' "investigate" || ''-co'' (reciprocal) + ''-z'' (causitive) = (repetitive)
| ''zarcoz'' "investigate" || ''-co'' (reciprocal) + ''-z'' (causitive) = (repetitive)
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====Negation and potential in verb-stems====
A dictionary-stem is '''positive'''; it can be made:
*'''negative''', by addition of ''-me'';
*'''impotential''', by addition of ''-e'' and then ''-me''.
Any of these three (kinds of) stems can be made '''potential''' by addition of ''-e'' and then ''-bil''.  The ''-bil'' is not enclitic, but represents the verb ''bil-'' "know, be able"; the first syllable of the impotential ending represents an obsolete verb ''u-'' "be powerful, able" [[#References|Lewis]] [VIII,55].
So far then, there are six kinds of stems:
:{|class="wikitable"
|+ Paradigm for stems negative, impotential and potential
|-
! ||English infinitive||English finite form
|-
|''gel-''||"come"||"come"
|-
|''gelme-''||"not come"||"do not come"
|-
|''geleme-''||"be unable to come"||"cannot come"
|-
|''gelebil-''||"be able to come"||"can come"
|-
|''gelmeyebil-''||"be able to not come"||"may not come"
|-
|''gelemeyebil-''||"able to be unable to come"||"may be unable to come"
|}
Such stems are not used for aorist forms, which have their own peculiar means of forming negatives and impotentials.
Note that ''-ebil'' is one of several verbs that can be compounded to enhance meaning. See [[#Auxiliary verbs|Auxiliary verbs]].


===Bases of verbs===
===Bases of verbs===