ꠢꠥꠘꠣ

Sylheti

Etymology

Inherited from Magadhi Prakrit 𑀰𑀼𑀡𑁂𑀤𑀺 (śuṇedi), from Sanskrit शृणोति (śṛṇoti).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦuna/

Verb

ꠢꠥꠘꠣ • (huna)

1. to hear
2. to listen

Conjugation

Impersonal of ꠢꠥꠘꠣ

Stem	ꠢꠥꠘ hun
Gerund	ꠢꠥꠘꠣ huna
Infinitive	ꠢꠥꠘꠣ huna
Goal	ꠢꠥꠘꠣꠞ ꠟꠣꠉꠤ hunar lagi
Agentive	ꠢꠥꠘꠞꠣ ♂, ꠢꠥꠘꠞꠤ ♀ hunra ♂, hunri ♀
Converb	ꠢꠥꠘꠔꠦ hunte
Progressive participle	ꠢꠥꠘꠔꠦ ꠢꠥꠘꠔꠦ hunte hunte
Conditional participle	ꠢꠥꠘꠟꠦ hunle
Perfect participle	ꠢꠥꠘꠤꠀ hunia
Habitual participle	ꠢꠥꠘꠤ ꠢꠥꠘꠤ huni huni

Conjugation of ꠢꠥꠘꠣ

Person	First person	Second person			Third person
		Very faml. & Inferior	Familiar	Honorific		Familiar
Singular	ꠀꠝꠤ/ꠝꠥꠁ ami/mui	ꠔꠥꠁ tui	ꠔꠥꠝꠤ tumi	ꠀꠙꠘꠦ afne	ꠔꠣꠁꠘ tain	ꠢꠦ ♂, ꠔꠣꠁ ♀ he ♂, tai ♀
Plural	ꠀꠝꠞꠣ amra	ꠔꠥꠝꠞꠣ tumra	ꠔꠥꠝꠤꠔꠣꠁꠘ tumitain	ꠀꠙꠘꠣꠞꠣ/ꠀꠙꠘꠣꠁꠘꠔꠦ afnara/afnainte	ꠔꠣꠁꠘꠔꠣꠁꠘ taintain	ꠔꠣꠞꠣ tara
Present
Imperfective	ꠢꠥꠘꠤ huni	ꠢꠥꠘꠌ hunos	ꠢꠥꠘꠧ huno	ꠢꠥꠘꠂꠘ hunoin		ꠢꠥꠘꠦ hune
Continuous	*ꠢꠥꠘꠤꠀꠞ / *ꠢꠥꠘꠤ ꠞꠣꠝ / *ꠢꠥꠘꠤꠔ ꠞꠣꠝ *huniar / *huni ram / *hunit ram	ꠢꠥꠘꠞꠦ / ꠢꠥꠘꠞꠦ hunre	ꠢꠥꠘꠞꠣꠄ hunrae	ꠢꠥꠘꠞꠣ hunra		ꠢꠥꠘꠦꠞ huner
Perfective	ꠢꠥꠘꠍꠤ hunsi	ꠢꠥꠘꠍꠌ hunsos	ꠢꠥꠘꠍꠧ hunso	ꠢꠥꠘꠍꠂꠘ hunsoin		ꠢꠥꠘꠍꠦ hunse
Past
Recent	ꠢꠥꠘꠟꠣꠝ hunlam	ꠢꠥꠘꠟꠦ hunle	ꠢꠥꠘꠟꠣꠄ hunlae	ꠢꠥꠘꠟꠣ hunla		ꠢꠥꠘꠟꠧ hunlo
Distant	ꠢꠥꠘꠍ꠆ꠟꠣꠝ hunslam	ꠢꠥꠘꠍ꠆ꠟꠦ hunsle	ꠢꠥꠘꠍ꠆ꠟꠣꠄ hunslae	ꠢꠥꠘꠍ꠆ꠟꠣ hunsla		ꠢꠥꠘꠍꠤꠟ hunsil
Continuous	ꠢꠥꠘꠣꠔ ꠀꠍꠟꠣꠝ hunat aslam	ꠢꠥꠘꠣꠔ ꠀꠍꠟꠦ hunat asle	ꠢꠥꠘꠣꠔ ꠀꠍꠟꠣꠄ hunat aslae	ꠢꠥꠘꠣꠔ ꠀꠍꠟꠣ hunat asla		ꠢꠥꠘꠣꠔ ꠀꠍꠤꠟ hunat asil
Future
Indicative	ꠢꠥꠘꠝꠥ hunmu	ꠢꠥꠘꠛꠦ hunbe	ꠢꠥꠘꠛꠣꠄ hunbae	ꠢꠥꠘꠛꠣ hunba		ꠢꠥꠘꠛꠧ hunbo
Others
Imperative	—	ꠢꠥꠘ hun	ꠢꠥꠘꠧ huno	ꠢꠥꠘꠃꠇꠇꠣ hunoukka		{{{imp-3}}} {{{imp-3-tr}}}
❋ Note 1: * = Dialectal
❋ Note 2: Sylheti is an ergative language. So the 3rd person nouns get the ergative suffix ꠄ (e), which is written with the vowel diacritic ꠦ (e) after a consonant.
❋ Note 3: There are many dialects of Sylheti. This is just one of those.
❋ Note 4: Click here to see other personal pronouns with grammatical cases.

References

• Gwynn, Roger (2016) “huna”, in Londoni Sylheti dictionary, Part I : Sylheti-English, Middletown, DE: Acre Press.