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and number, and the auxiliary verb is added unchanged, in the form of
the 3 rd
person singular: singular: b-ķitħa-unon, ķitħa-unon, ķitħas-unon...
In Vitsean-Arkabean and Atinan ere is added instead of the aux-
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iliary verb unon , which is used in different phonetic vatians (re, e, r).
For instance, singular: b-ķitħa-re, ķitħa-re, ķitħas-ere/ķitħas-e. singular: b-
ķitħa-t-ere/b- ķitħat-e, ķitħat-ere/ķitħa-t-e, ķitħa-n-e/ķitħa-n-e-n.
The use of Optative as Future is an archaic fact in Chan, while
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adding the auxiliary verb is a dialectal phenomenon.
Series 2
-i,-e, Ø occur as the Aorist Screeve markers in literary Georgian
and the dialects.
Suffix -i is present in zero-suffix verbs of the Archaic Georgian:
movħan(i), movķal(i)... are preserved in Pkhovian dialects (Khevsurian,
Tushian).
Distribution pattern of -i,-e, Ø allomorphs in Kartvelian idioms
are more or less different:
Suffix -e as a screeve marker occurs in almost all dialects: Kartlian-Kakhetian:
davħaţ-e, gavağ-e, daviċqe ... Megrelian: do-v/p’-ĉ-e "I
sewed", guat-e "I finished", do-v/p’-ķil-e "I closed"... Svan: ad-ħaţw-e "s/he
painted", ad-ķar-e "s/he opened"...
In Megrelian the -i and -e suffixes are used as the Aorist screeve
markers: for instance: pħanţ-i "I painted", p’ķvat-i "I cut"… p’ţqabar-e "I
skinned/flayed"… giţ-e "I let you go", p’ĉq-e "I cursed him/her"…
308 Different opinions have been expressed regarding the origin of ere: ere