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In Megrealian a verb (both transitive and intransitive) in present
employs k- suffix in the 1st and 2nd person, singular.
There is no formant in transitive verbs in Chan. The paradigm is
as follows:
Megrelian
singular plural
v/p’-ĉar- un-k "I am writing" v/p’-ĉar- un-t "we are writing"
ĉar- un-k "you are writing" ĉar- un-t "you are writing"
ĉar- un-s "s/he is writing" ĉar- un-a(n) "they are writing"
Chan
p’-ĉar-up/um "I am writing" p’-ĉar-up/um-t "we are writing"
ĉar-up/um "you are writing" ĉar-un-up/um-t "you are writing"
ĉar-up/um-s "s/he is writing" ĉar-up/um-a(n)" "they are writing"
b) In literary Georgian the intransitive verbs in present screeve
have a special formant: suffix -i is added in 1 st and 2 nd
persons, in the
3rd person it is lost (due to a-): v-tbeb-I "I am getting warm"(I person),
tbeb-i "you are getting warm" (II person), tbeb-a "s/he is getting warm" (III
person)... cf.: Old Georgian: gan-ţp-eb-i-s…
The archaic condition is preserved in Pkhovian dialects:
dg-eb-i-s "s/he is standing up", e-ħvev-i-s "s/he is embracing", ķetd-ebi-s
"it is getting done"… Other dialects: imal-v-i-s "s/he is hiding", enaţr-eb-i-s
"s/he is missing sb." (Rachan); iħarš-v-is "it is boiling", ib-m-i-s "it is getting
tied" (Acharan)… izil-v-i-s "it is getting kneaded", ikitħ-v-i-s "it is read = it is
taught", (Imerkhevian), iqid-v-i-s "it is getting sold", iĉ-m-i-s "it is getting eaten"
(Machakhelian) (Sh. Putkaradze, 1995, p.13, 27).
In Megrelian the intransitive verbs, similar to the transitive ones,
are formed by adding suffix -k in 1 st and 2 nd
persons in present screeve:
Singular Plural
v/p’-ţibu-k "I am getting warm" v/p’-ţibu-t "we are getting warm"
ţibu-k "you are getting warm" ţibu-t""you are getting warm"
ţibu-(n) "he/she is getting warm" ţibu-n-a(n) "they are getting warm"
Chan employes suffix -r instead of suffix -k:
p’-ţubu-r "I am getting warm" p’-ţubu-t ""we are getting warm"
ţubu-r "you are getting warm" ţubu-t ""yo are getting warm"
ţubu-n "s/he is getting warm" ţubu-n-an "they are getting warm"
The suffix -k in Megrelian is present in any types of verbs, while
in Chan the suffix -r is typical to only certain group of intransitive
verbs.
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