Catalan and the traditional inceptive meaning and function of inchoative verbs. It is most likely that this verb sub-category is named ‘inchoative’ because the associated morpheme ‘-eix-‘ stems directly from the Latin inchoative morpheme ‘-sc-‘, despite its function and usage having disappeared. Ancient Greek Greek also uses the inchoative suffix -sk-, although it does not always indicate inchoative meaning. -sk- is added to verb-stems ending in vowels, -isk- to consonant stems. "I please" or "appease" (first aorist ἤρεσα (ḗre-s-a) "I appeased") "I say" (from , same meaning) "I find" (second aorist ηὗρον (hēûr-on) "I found") Past iterative verb forms in Homer and Herodotus use the same suffix. Finnish Finnish inchoatives may be marked with -nt- (which undergoes consonant gradation to -nn- in weak form). vaalentua "to go paler" < vaalea "pale" hiljentyä "to go silent" < hiljainen "silent" An alternative form is vaaleta, hiljetä, etc. Not all inchoatives are marked like this, however, e.g. kuolla "to die" The translative case marks "becoming something" on the noun, thus a target state is marked with the translative case (-ksi): lehti vaalenee keltaiseksi "the leaf fades to yellow". The transformation from a state is marked with the elative case (-sta): lehti vaalenee tummanvihreästä keltaiseksi "the leaf fades from dark green to yellow". In eastern Karelian dialects, the exessive case (-nta) specifically refers to inchoative changes. Armenian Armenian has a class of inchoative verbs marked with the infix -ան- or -ն-. They belong to the third conjugation, so the full infinitive ending is -անալ or -նալ. հիւանդանալ "to become ill" < հիւանդ "sick, ill" նիհարանալ "to get thin" < նիհար "thin, slender" կարմրանալ "to redden, to blush" < կարմիր "red" աղքատանալ "to be impoverished" < աղքատ "poor" ամչնալ "to be shamed, become ashamed" < ամօթ "shame" In Western Armenian, the penultimate vowel tends to weaken or drop out, so the -անալ suffix is more commonly -նալ, sometimes pronounced -ընալ (հիւանդնալ, նիհարնալ, կարմրընալ). Inchoatives are considered part of the third conjugation, but they form a special category because the infix drops in the past tense; while regular third conjugation verbs add ց to the present stem, for the inchoatives the ց appears in the place of the dropped ն. կարդալ "to read" > կարդացաւ "he read" (past of regular third conjugation) սպիտականալ "to become white" > սպիտակացաւ not *սպիտականացաւ "it became white" The infix generally retains its inchoative meaning in modern usage, although sometimes the