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in order to get: I am diving for clams = I am diving in order to get clams

in order to benefit: I am doing this for you = I am doing this in order to benefit you

a quantity of time or distance: I walked for 2 hours = I walked 2 hours long; I walked for two miles = I walked 2 miles long

drink -> drench

cling -> clench

we used to have a form for "to cause-to" on verbs. and yes, there was apparently a q verb for fire-going-out that led to "quench".

sadly, people refuse to acknowledge my other example:

It’s also REALLY COOL, so I have spent the afternoon finding more examples!

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Proto-Germanic is theorized to have alternated '-ana' for 'to do' with '-iyana' (‘ijaną’) for 'to cause to happen.' The vowel of the stem would also change.

If the word stem ended in a 'k', the 'kiyana' changed to 'chan' in Old English. (‘giyana’ changes to ‘dgan’, and ‘ngiyana’ often changes to ‘nchan’.)

Other '-iyana' words became '-an' in Old English. Since the '-ana' words did the same thing, often the only difference will be the vowel , if there are any differences at all.

So:

'drinkaną' → 'drincan' → 'drink'

'drankijaną' → 'drenċan' (drenchan) → 'drench' (originally ‘to make drink/to soak’)

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'kwinkaną' → 'cwincan' → (word replaced by 'vanish')

'kwankijaną' → 'cwenċan' (quenchan) → 'quench'

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'stinkwaną' → 'stincan' → 'stink'

'stankwijaną' → 'stenċan' (wachan) → 'stench' (obsolete, meant 'to cause to emit a bad odour')

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'wakaną' → 'wacan' → 'wake'

'wakjaną' → 'wæċċan' (wachan) → 'watch'

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'lekaną' → 'lecan' → 'leak'

'lakjaną' → 'leċċan' (lechan) → 'leach'

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'weganą' → 'wegan' → 'weigh' (originally 'to carry/weigh')

'wagjaną' → 'weċġan' (wedgan) → 'wedge' (originally 'to agitate/shake')

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'klinganą' → 'clingan' → 'cling'

'klankijaną' → 'clenċan' (clenchan) → 'clench'

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'wringaną' → 'wringan' → 'wring'

'wrankijaną' → 'wrenċan' (wrenchan) → 'wrench'

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But Also:

'windaną' → 'windan' → 'wind'

'wandijaną' → 'wendan' → 'wend' (originally 'to turn something')

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'swaipaną' → 'swāpan' → 'swoop'

'swaipijaną' → 'swǣpan' → 'sweep'

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'sitjaną' → 'sittan' → 'sit'

'satjaną' → 'settan' → 'set'

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'fallaną' → 'feallan' → 'fall'

'fallijaną' → 'fellan/fiellan' → 'fell'

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'bītaną' → 'bītan' → 'bite'

'baitijaną' → 'bǣtan' → 'bait' (to make bite)

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'bindaną' → 'bindan' → 'bind'

'bandijaną' → 'bendan' → 'bend' (originally ‘to bind something/restrain/bend’)

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'ligjaną' → 'liċġan' → 'lie' (lie down)

'lagjaną' → 'leċġan' (ledgan) → 'lay'

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'kunnaną' → 'cunnan' → 'cun(ning)/can(ny)'

'kannijaną' → 'cennan' → 'ken' (originally ‘to make known’)

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'webaną' → 'wefan' → 'weave'

'wabjaną' → 'webbian' → 'web' (originally 'to cause to weave/entangle')

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And Also:

'hlināną' → 'hleonian/hlinian' → 'lean'

'hlainijaną' → 'hlǣnan' → 'lean' (originally ‘to cause something to lean’)

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'dūbaną' → 'dūfan' → 'dive'

'dūbijaną' → 'dȳfan' → 'dive' (originally 'submerse')

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'grētāną' → 'grǣtan' → 'greet' (originally ‘to weep/cry’)

An interesting overlap of concepts in this word, it seems like a quack, an alchemist, and a witch doctor would all fall into one category

In some languages, they make use of what are sometimes called serial verb constructions. rather than sticking to one verb and a bunch of prepositions and subordinate clauses, you just run a bunch of verbs together. These show up in some West African languages, West Indian creole languages, and also in Chinese.

Here's an example. Imagine you are at a seafood restaurant, and you have ordered a crab rangoon. instead of a normal plate of seafood, however, the waiter picks up a long pole with a hook on the end, loops the hook through the handle of a bucket that someone has put on the counter that leads to the kitchen, and uses the pole to deposit the bucket, which is filled by a live, gigantic crab, in front of you. In English, we might say the following sentence to describe this scenario:

He put the bucket on the table with a pole.

In a language that uses serial verb constructions, it would probably come out like this.

He used a pole took the bucket put on the table

tabezu, tabeta (not eating, ate) was used to describe the meals of a baby blowing on hot food and a person limiting themself to a diet of rice and miso soup

nomazu, nonda (not drinking, drank) was used by a gentleman insisting that he only has alcohol once or twice a week

mizu, mita (not seeing, saw) and kangaezu, kangaeta (not thinking, thought) were used to spurn fans who start critiquing songs before giving the lyrics and their meanings due consideration

So the construct seems to utilize negation to describe actions done minimally...? Eating slowly because food is too hot, eating little to lose weight. Barely drinking, barely considering the lyrics. Doing something in such a way that it's like you're not doing it at all... Something to that effect.

From the description of Tlingit by John R Swanton, The Handbook of American Indian Languages (1911) p.169

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§ 9. Collective

With animate and inanimate objects, but more often the latter, the sense of A LOT OF or A HEAP OF is expressed by suffixing q! or q!î, as,

Łīngî't man or men Łīngî'tq! many men together

ta stone teq! stones lying in a heap

q!at! island q!at!q!î islands

hît house hî'tq!î houses

gux slave guxq! slaves

That this is not a true plural is shown on the one hand by the fact that its employment is not essential, and on the other by the fact that it is occasionally used where no idea of plurality, according to the English understanding of that term, exist; Thus yuyā'i ʟanq! THE BIG WHALE may be said of a single whale, the suffix indicating that the whale was very large, and that it had many parts to be cut out. Therefore it may best be called a collective suffix.

Word order for ‘I eat white rice’ in European languages.

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