Some Ćwarmin Adverbs of Time and other considerations

Here are some adverbs of time used in Ćwarmin, a language intended to be somewhat Uralic-like (although nothing prevents Indo-European, Turkic and various Caucasian influences).

twiǧerćel - formed from the verb twiǧel, participate, with the suffix for 'mandatory action'. Has come to signify time spanning until the regular full village meetings, which serve a ritual function as well as a civic function. When referred to as a noun, the full time span is 'cawxur', which basically serves the role 'week' does in English. A cawxur is usually nine days, with about one in four being ten-day cawxurs, and one annual eleven-day cawxur. It is clearly related to the number nine, 'cawke'. With the determiner 'bax', it signifies something taking place in the previous twihel cycle, and with the determiner 'saŋ' ('up'), it signifies something between the incoming twiherćel and its successor. Jaźe twiǧerćel ('whole.sg') signifies something spanning a full twiǧerćel cycle. A number before twiǧerćel sets the number of cycles that something will span. A number of weeks spanned in the past is also preceded by awwun - "was". The pseudoparticiple used for the span of an action -enit is not used for this because the action itself only covers a few hours at most (or even shorter where village clergy and leaders are less meticulously religious, and fewer communal issues are needed to be discussed at the civic part).

lentapritaś - literally milk.obligatee.gen-sing-specific "of him who is obligated to milk (cattle)", a poetic name for 'in the early morning', appeared in the Ćwarmin analogue to the Romantic era. The morphemes involved are lentek (a verb for harvesting animal products except meat - eggs, wool, milk, blood, but also the meat of snails, frogs and small fish), -apir (noun marking person obligated to do an action), -itaś (specific genitive singular).

śpanit - in the nights, in night-time, at night derived from śpal (sleep) + -enit. A generalized adverb of time, so not when speaking about a specific night, which uses the noun kojom, night - often in the accusative form kojuc. (The root is irregularly shortened, or rather the nominative has an unusual -om suffix).

jirune - soon (time.dative)

merg - often

ćimij - oftentimes, ćiwuru - sometimes. These are verbs, ćimid has third person plural inflection, ćiwuru is paucal third person. Ćimil basically means 'do, happen, act, perform, make, make happen' - happen for more abstract subjects, do for more concrete subjects. As a regular predicate verb it most often appears directly after a subject or object, but as an adverby verb it either is sentence initial or goes after the main verb. When used as a main predicate it almost never drops its subject pronoun.

ćimamce - just, a moment ago, recently. Not commonly used, as the verb itself can be inflected for recent past. However, with verbless constructions and as an answer to when something happened, this is a common lexeme.

Further, due to its rather wide span of meanings, it's really a rather ambivoiced verb - "I did" and "it happened/got done by me" are both quite similar in practical use. Since the immediate past makes no person distinction, it's quite possible for there to be no subject at all, and even just oblique patients and oblique agents, whereas the present and the past tend to have an actual subject - either a promoted patient or an agent - that triggers congruence.