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'''Evonish''' (subject to constant renaming) is a constructed language (for a possible constructed world) mostly limited to my day dreaming and notebooks.  It is a-posetriori and influenced primarily by (West) Germanic, (Insular) Celtic, and Russian. Its phoneme inventory is based on [[w:General American pronunciation|General American phonology]]. The wordstock has many influences of [[w:Germanic languages|Germanic languages]], [[w:Celtic languages|Celtic languages]], [[w:Slavic languages|Slavic languages]], and some [[a priori]] vocabulary.
Imagine Germanic tribes such as the Anglo-Saxons and the eastern gathering together with Celts and sailing the Baltic Sea. They landed near modern day Saint Petersburg where they established their own nation-state, absorbing some northern Russian groups.
{{ClassMeter
{{ClassMeter
|Name      = Evonish
|Name      = Evonish
|NativeName = Évonix
|NativeName = Evonic (?)
|Type      = Fusional
|Type      = Fusional
|Alignment  = Nominative-accusative
|Alignment  = Nominative-Accusative


|adjective  = final
|adjective  = final
|adposition = final
|adposition = mixed
|adverb    = final
|adverb    = mixed
|article    = final
|article    = final
|relativeclause = mixed
|relativeclause = mixed
|nounclause = final
|nounclause = final
|order = SVO
|order = V2


|Tonal      = No
|Tonal      = No
|Declined  = Yes
|Declined  = Yes
|Conjugated = Yes
|Conjugated = Yes
|Genders    = Common, Neuter
|Genders    = Common/Neuter
|NCase  = yes
|NCase  = yes
|NNumber = yes
|NNumber = yes
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|VAspect = no
|VAspect = no


|Phonology= 90
|Phonology=
|NounCases= 100
|NounCases=
|NounDef=100
|NounDef=
|NounNumbers= 100
|NounNumbers=
|NounGender= 100
|NounGender=
|VerbPerson= 100
|VerbPerson=
|VerbNumber= 100
|VerbNumber=
|VerbAspect= 100
|VerbAspect=
|VerbTense= 100
|VerbTense=
|VerbMood= 50
|VerbMood=
|VerbVoice= 100
|VerbVoice=
|AdjCase= 0
|AdjCase= 0
|AdjNumber= 0
|AdjNumber= 0
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|AdjComparative= 100
|AdjComparative= 100
|AdjSuperlative= 100
|AdjSuperlative= 100
|Supine= 100
|Supine=
|Gerund= 100
|Gerund=
|Participle= 100
|Participle= 100
|Infinitive= 100
|Infinitive= 100
|Modality= 100
|Modality=
|Words=6}}
|Words=}}


{{PAGENAME}} is a Germanic language of the Evonen language branch. It is based on the General American dialect of English and the Grammar of Old English, Old Norse and German. Some elements, mostly the wordstock, are slightly A-priori or influenced by Japanese, Irish, Russian, and Latin. It is similar to Middle Evonish, however the two languages split on 25 May 2012 and will probably differentiate more over time. The objective of Evonish is to preserve a old inflections and words of Germanic languages as well as eliminate the need for interpretation by context.
==Objectives==
*to create a poetic, flowing language
*to preserve old Germanic grammar
*to preserve Celtic vocabulary
*to create a left-hand friendly writing system


==Phonology==
==Phonology==
Æ-Tensing, a process by which the vowel /æ/ is raised and lengthened to produce /æ̝ˑ/ before a nasal consonant, is in free variation and is merely an allophone. Iotation may feature in the language for a form of inflection. Palatalization occurs in /sk/ consonant clusters rendering them /ʃ/.
===Consonants===
===Consonants===
Affricates were present in [[Middle Evonish]], but by Modern Evonish, they have all become velarized or palatalized.
Parenthesis indicate allophones.
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable article-table" style="width: 860px; "
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg"
! scope="col" style="width: 66px; "|
! scope="col" style="width: 66px; text-align: center; "|Bilabial
! scope="col" style="width: 66px; text-align: center; "|Bilabial
! scope="col" style="width: 66px; text-align: center; "|Labio-dental
! scope="col" style="width: 66px; text-align: center; "|Labio-dental
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! scope="col" style="width: 66px; text-align: center; "|Velar
! scope="col" style="width: 66px; text-align: center; "|Velar
! scope="col" style="width: 66px; text-align: center; "|Glottal
! scope="col" style="width: 66px; text-align: center; "|Glottal
! scope="col" style="width: 66px; "|
|-
|-
! style="text-align: center; "|Nasal
| style="text-align: center;"|m /m/
| style="text-align: center;"|m
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|n
| style="text-align: center;"|n /n/
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|(ŋ)
| style="text-align: center;"|ŋ /ŋ/
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
! style="text-align: center; "|Nasal
|-
|-
! style="text-align: center; "|Plosive
| style="text-align: center;"|p /p/ b /b/
| style="text-align: center;"|p b
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|t d
| style="text-align: center;"|t /t/ d /d/
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|k g
| style="text-align: center;"|k /k/ g /g/
| style="text-align: center;"|ʔ
|-
! style="text-align: center; "|Fricative
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|f v
! style="text-align: center; "|Plosive
| style="text-align: center;"|θ ð
| style="text-align: center;"|s z
| style="text-align: center;"|ʃ (ʒ)
| style="text-align: center;"|ç
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|h
|-
|-
! style="text-align: center; "|Approximant
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|f /f/ v /v/
| style="text-align: center;" colspan="3"|ɹ
| style="text-align: center;"|þ /θ/ ð /ð/
| style="text-align: center;"|j
| style="text-align: center;"|s /s/ z /z/
| style="text-align: center;"|ʍ w
| style="text-align: center;"|c /ʃ/ ʒ /ʒ/
| style="text-align: center;"|
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| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|x /x/
| style="text-align: center;"|h /h/
! style="text-align: center; "|Fricative
|-
|-
! style="text-align: center; "|Flap/Tap
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;" colspan="3"|ɾ
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;" colspan="3"|r /ɹ/
| style="text-align: center;"|j /j/
| style="text-align: center;"|q /ʍ/ w /w/
| style="text-align: center;"|
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| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
! style="text-align: center; "|Approximant
|-
|-
! style="text-align: center; "|Lateral
| style="text-align: center;"|
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| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|l
| style="text-align: center;"|l /l/
| style="text-align: center;"|
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| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
! style="text-align: center; "|Lateral
|}
|}


===Vowels===
===Vowels===
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable article-table" style="width: 540px; "
Parenthesis indicate allophones. The following table includes the rhotic vowels as well.
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{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg"
! scope="col" style="width: 90px; text-align: center; "|Front
! scope="col" style="width: 90px; text-align: center; "|Front
! scope="col" style="width: 90px; text-align: center; "|Near-front
! scope="col" style="width: 90px; text-align: center; "|Near-front
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! scope="col" style="width: 90px; text-align: center; "|Near-back
! scope="col" style="width: 90px; text-align: center; "|Near-back
! scope="col" style="width: 90px; text-align: center; "|Back
! scope="col" style="width: 90px; text-align: center; "|Back
! scope="col" style="width: 90px; "|
|-
|-
! style="text-align: center; "|Close
| style="text-align: center;"|í /i/
| style="text-align: center;"|i
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|u
| style="text-align: center;"|ú /u:/
! style="text-align: center; "|Close
|-
|-
! style="text-align: center; "|Near-close
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|ɪ
| style="text-align: center;"|i /ɪ/
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|ʊ
| style="text-align: center;"|y /ʊ/
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
! style="text-align: center; "|Near-close
|-
|-
! style="text-align: center; "|Close-mid
| style="text-align: center;"|é /e:/, /e˞ː/
| style="text-align: center;"|e
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|o
| style="text-align: center;"|ó /o:/
! style="text-align: center; "|Close-mid
|-
|-
! style="text-align: center; "|Mid
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|ə
| style="text-align: center;"|e /ə/
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
! style="text-align: center; "|Mid
|-
|-
! style="text-align: center; "|Open-mid
| style="text-align: center;"|e /ɛ/, /ɛ˞ː/
| style="text-align: center;"|ɛ
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|/ɝː/
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| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|u /ʌ/ '''·''' œ /ɔ/, or /ɔ˞ː/
| style="text-align: center;"|ʌ ɔ
! style="text-align: center; "|Open-mid
|-
|-
! style="text-align: center; "|Near-open
| style="text-align: center;"|æ /æ/ (æ̝ˑ)
| style="text-align: center;"|æ
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
! style="text-align: center; "|Near-open
|-
|-
! style="text-align: center; "|Open
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|ɑ
| style="text-align: center;"|a /ɑ/, ar /ɑ˞/
! style="text-align: center; "|Open
|}
|}
===Rhotic===
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable article-table" style="width: 860px; "
!R vowels
!IPA
!General American Examples
|-
!ar
|/ɑ˞/
|mark, dark
|-
!er
|/ɛ˞ː/
|air, bear
|-
!ir
|/e˞ː/
|deer and fear
|-
!or
|/ɔ˞ː/
|or and cord
|-
!ur
|/ɝː/
|fur and her
|-
|}
===Palatalization===
''(this is subject to change)'' <br>
The voiceless velar fricative "x" was palatalized to the voiceless palatal fricative "ç" completely by Middle Evonish, creating related pairs of words with k and c.


==Writing==
==Writing==
===Allophones===
The writing system is based on a Latin alphabet, which represents the scope of the romance influence on the language. Additionally, the alphabet is greatly modified from the traditional Roman variant with a handful of relatively unique characters. The language may be written from right to left, so long as the capital letter at the beginning of the sentence is at the write, and the form is consistent throughout. The exact phonetic equivalents can be found in the tables above. A tailed z gradually developed to represent the zh sound, now represented by the character ʒ.
n is /ŋ/ before k or g
See [[IPA for Evonish]]. It is a 28 letter alphabet. It is as follows: <br>
a, p, b, c, j, t, d, þ, ð, e, f, v, k, g, i, y, h, l, m, n, o, r, s, z, u, ƕ, w, x. <br>
Vowels have multiple pronunciations, but consonants do not.


===Diacritics===
The thirty-two letter alphabet is a modified Latin alphabet that contains the following bookstaves:
''(Work in progress...)''
*æ, a, b, c, d, ð, e, f, g, h i, j, k, l, m, n, ŋ, œ, o, p, q, r, s, t, þ, u, v, w, x, y, z, ʒ.
Certain umlaut letters will be used . These can be entered with an international keyboard, or copied.
- /a/
*é - /e/
*í - /i/
*ó - /o/
*ú - /u/
*ý - /ai/


===Digraphs===
The archaic characters are ƕ(hwair) and ƿ(Wynn), which represent q and w respectively. The [[IPA for Varevon]] is sorely out of date, and is subject to change soon. Umlauts are written with a diaeresis/umlaut, and doubled vowels indicate long vowels or gemination.
The umlauts can be rewritten as the standard vowel with an e after. This was originally considered archaic as the diaeresis replaced this practice. With the rise of technology, however, this has become common use again when the diaeresis is not available. "Hr" which appears in the initial position of some words is pronounced /ɾ/, although it is oft mistakenly pronounced /hɹ/.
===Punctuation===
It is vastly similar to English punctuation, but the differences are evident:
*Relative clauses are set off with commas.
*Prepositional phrases are generally place before what they modify.
*Declarative sentences end in a period.
*Interrogative sentences end in a question mark.
*Exclamatory sentences end in an exclamation mark.


==Pronouns==
==Pronouns==
===Personal===
Personal pronouns are the most complex. The sole relative pronoun is [TBD].
Subject to change
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 500px; "
Personal pronouns feature a combination of the Germanic, h-stem, i-stem, and s-stem in third person. Suppletion between accusative and dative cases in first and second plurals occurred from originally distinct dual and plural pronouns, hence there are the Cs in the accusative of first and second person plurals.
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable" style="width: 500px; "
! scope="row"|Person
! scope="row"|Person
! scope="col"|# / Gender
! scope="col"|Number
! scope="col"|Nominative
! scope="col"|Nominative
! scope="col"|Accusative
! scope="col"|Accusative
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! scope="col"|Dative
! scope="col"|Dative
|-
|-
! rowspan="2" scope="row"|First
! rowspan="4"|Singular
|Singular
!First
|Ik
|
|Mek
|
|Mýn
|
|
|
|-
|-
| scope="row"|Plural
!Second
|
|
|Unk
|
|Úr
|
|Ús
|
|-
|-
! rowspan="2" scope="row"|Second
!Common
|Singular
|
|Ðú
|
|Ðek
|
|Ðýn
|
|Ðí
|-
|-
| scope="row"|Plural
!Neuter
|
|
|Ink
|
|Jár
|
|
|
|-
|-
! rowspan="3"|Third
! rowspan="3"|Plural
|Common
!First
|
|
|Hin
|
|His
|
|Him
|
|-
|-
|Neuter
!Second
|Hit
|
|It
|
|Is
|
|Im
|
|-
|-
|Plural
!Third
|
|
|Én
|
|Hér
|
|Ém
|
|-
|-
! rowspan="2"|Indefinite
!Indefinite
|Reflexive
!Reflexive
|
|
|Zek
|
|Zýn
|
|
|
|-
|-
|}
! rowspan="2"|Interrogative
 
!Common
===Relative===
|
The sole relative pronoun is ðe, however, relative clauses are set off with commas.
|
 
|
===Interrogative===
|
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable" style="width: 500px; "
!Declension
!Nominative
!Accusative
!Genitive
!Dative
|-
|-
! style="text-align: left; "|Common
!Neuter
|Ƕo
|
|Ƕon
|
|Ƕos
|
|Ƕom
|
|-
! style="text-align: left; "|Neuter
| colspan = "2"|Ƕat
|Ƕas
|Ƕam
|}
|}


==Determiners==
==Determiners==
The negative article is understood as indefinite; there is no negative definite article so the verb of the sentence is negated instead.
The negative article is understood as indefinite; there is no negative definite article so the verb of the sentence is negated instead. Determines are key to distinguish to distinguishing gender. the E at the end of some determiner plurals is an ancient pluralizing form.  
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{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 500px; "
! rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Determiners
! rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Determiners
! colspan="3"|Article
! colspan="3"|Article
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!Distal
!Distal
|-
|-
! rowspan="2"|Singular
! rowspan="2"|Common
!Common
!Singular
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| style="text-align: center; "|
| style="text-align: center; "|
|-
|-
!Neuter
!Plural
| style="text-align: center; "|
| style="text-align: center; "| -  
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! rowspan="2"|Plural
! rowspan="2"|Neuter
!Common
!Singular
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!Neuter
!Plural
| style="text-align: center; "|
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==Grammar==
==Table of Correlatives==
{{main|Evonish grammar}}
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===Morphology===
==Morphology==
====Declension====
===Adjectives===
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable" style="width: 500px; "
Certain adjectives decline only in an attributive position; they do not in a predicative position. Cf. [[w:German language|German]] ''die schwarze Magd'' vs ''die Magd ist schwarz''. Some adjectives undergo mutation. Furthermore, there are many common affixes which form adjectives, whose list will be available in time.
! colspan="2"|Class I
===Mutations===
!Vocative
====Ablaut====
!Nominative
In progress
!Accusative
====Grammatischer Wechsel====
The language is descended from Proto-Germanic. Thus it includes Grimm's Law and Verner's Law; however, it retains a unique variant, as does all modern Germanic descendants. It's variant of these two laws creates different sound changes within verb paradigms known as the Grammatischer Wechsel.
Commas indicate the second phoneme occurs in the case of Verner's Law. Phonemes in parenthesis were allophones and innovations in their respective languages.
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg"
!Proto-Indo-European
!Proto-Germanic
!Old Norse
!Old English
!Old High German
!Evonish
|-
!*p
|*ɸ, β
|f
|f (v)
|f, b
|???
|-
|}
====Umlaut====
===Nouns===
Their declension depends upon case and number. The plural genitive ending is used in compound words much like kennings. The umlaut occurs in some plurals, in some cases, and sometimes in whole words. The vocative, instrumental, and locative forms disappeared since Proto-Germanic. A pseudo-vocative form is made with the clitic O' (from Celtic) and uses the zero conjugation.
====Strong====
The vowel a became associated with plural and e with singular. Vowel dropping may be apparent spoken, but it is not written, such as Engel not declining to Eng'la.
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 500px; "
!Strong - Engel (''Angel'')
!Singular
!Plural
|-
!Nominative/Accusative
|Engel
|Engelas
|-
!Genitive
!Genitive
|Engeles
|Engela
|-
!Dative
!Dative
!Instrumental
|Engele
|Engelam
|-
|}
====Weak====
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 500px; "
!Weak - Name (''name'')
!Singular
!Plural
|-
|-
! rowspan="2"|Singular
!Nominative/Accusative
!Common
|Name
| o-
|Namen
|
|-
| -en
!Genitive
| -es
|Name(n)s
| -e
|Nam(en)a
| -i
|-
!Dative
|Namen
|Namen
|-
|}
====Augmentative & Diminutive====
Lots of Stuff here
 
===Verb===
Verbs or verb forms in quotes are either an English equivalent or a work in progress. The infinitives of the frequentative form are -eln and -ern; these can be made of many verbs. The infinitive form in Evonish is the lemma form of the verb, meaning it is the one used in dictionaries. The primary aspects are simple, perfect, progressive, habitual, and inchoative. Simple aspect is used for:
*Stative verbs
*Gnomic aspect
Further aspects are formed by nonstandard ways or purely by context.
====Copula====
There will be both copular and semi-copular verbs. The copula is the most inflected and suppletive verb in the entire language.
====Paradigms====
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!Vocative
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!Dative
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! rowspan="2"|Singular
!Habitual
!Common
|infinitive
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|"to do"
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!Inchoative
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|supine
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|"to begin"
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!Perfect
!Common
|past participle
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|"to have"
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!Progressive
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|present participle
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!Tense
====Conjugation====
!Person
=====Weak I=====
!Auxiliary
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! colspan="4" scope="row"|Weak Verb Conjugation
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! colspan="2" scope="row"|Infinitive
! rowspan="3"| Future
| colspan="2"| '''-en'''
|First
|"shall"
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! colspan="2" scope="row"|Gerund
|Second
| colspan="2"| '''-ung'''
|"will"
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! colspan="2" scope="row"|Supine
|Third
| colspan="2"|'''tó-'''
|"go"
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! colspan="2" rowspan="2" scope="row"|Participle
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! colspan="1"|Passive
The particle [TBD] after the main verb negates the verb. The following table shows the conjugation of the verb fällen, a weak 1 class verb. The auxiliary verbs in the table are the verbs used with the participles to form two different aspects.
| colspan="1"|'''ge- -ed'''
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! rowspan="3" |Nonfinite
| colspan="1"| '''-end'''
!Infinitive
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!Gerund
! colspan="1"|Present
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! rowspan="4"|Finite forms
!Supine
!1st singular
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| colspan="1" |'''-e'''
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| colspan="1" |'''-de'''
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!2nd singular
! rowspan="3" |Participle
| colspan="1" |'''-est'''
!Tense
| colspan="1" |'''-dest'''
!Positive
!Negative
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!3rd singular
!Present
| colspan="1" |'''-eþ'''
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| colspan="1" |'''-ed'''
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!All Plural
!Past
| colspan="1" |'''-en'''
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| colspan="1" |'''-den'''
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! rowspan="2" scope="row"|Imperative
!Mood
!Tense
!Singular
!Singular
| colspan="1"|'''''(no affix)'''''
| colspan="1"|--
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!Plural
!Plural
| colspan="1"| '''-eþ'''
| colspan="1"|--
|}
===Nouns===
Nouns in Evonish are declined to indicate their grammatical role in the sentence. Their declension depends upon case, gender, and number. Gender is a special factor in Evonish; a word does not determine a gender, rather a selected gender determines a different word. For example, a stone in common gender may be an igneous rock while a stone in neuter may be a sedimentary rock. Possessive and genitive ''are'' not considered distinct cases. The plural genitive ending is used in compound words much like kennings in the Old English and Old Norse languages.
====Adjectives====
Certain adjectives decline only in an attributive position, they do not in a predicative position. Cf. [[w:German language|German]] ''die schwarze Magd'' vs ''die Magd ist schwarz''. Some adjectives undergo umlaut, such as old, ölder, and öldest. Furthermore, there are many common affixes which form adjectives, whose list will be availible in time.
* Comparative: -err
* Superlative: -est
===Verbs===
The use of the prefix ne- on any verb's form implies negation. Alternatively add the particle "nict" after the main verb, this is especially useful when a different prefix is already attached to the verb.
====Aspects====
The frequentive aspect is the only aspect formed with special conjugations. These conjugations will be provided soon, the infinitives of these are -eln and -ern.
The primary aspects are simple(including gnomic), perfect, progressive, habitual, and frequentative. If further aspects are necessary, they may be formed in nonstandard ways or purely in context.
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable" style="width: 500px; "
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! colspan="2" scope="row"|Aspects
! rowspan="6" |Indicative
! colspan="2"| Modal Verb
! rowspan="3" |Present
! colspan="2"| Main verb
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|[TBD]
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! colspan="2" scope="row"|Simple
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| colspan="2"| '''''(no modal verb)'''''
|[TBD]
| colspan="2"| '''conjugation'''
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! colspan="2" scope="row"|Perfect
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| colspan="2"| '''haven''' (to have)
|[TBD]
| colspan="2"| '''passive participle'''
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! colspan="2" scope="row"|Progressive
! rowspan="3" |Past
| colspan="2"| '''bíen''' (to be)
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| colspan="2"| '''active participle'''
|[TBD]
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! colspan="2" scope="row"|Habitual
|[TBD]
| colspan="2"| '''dóen''' (to do)
|[TBD]
| colspan="2"| '''infinitive'''
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! colspan="2" scope="row"|Frequentative
|[TBD]
| colspan="2"| '''''(no modal verb)'''''
|[TBD]
| colspan="2"| '''-eln conjugation''' (above)
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====Tenses====
Future is generally expressed by giving a time, or is implied in context with the simple present tense. There are auxiliary verbs that are standard as well. These are conjugated for the indicative mood
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! scope="col" style="width: 90px; text-align: center; "|Auxiliary verbs
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! scope="col" style="width: 90px; text-align: center; "|Plural
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! rowspan="2" |Subjunctive
| style="text-align: center;"|shyl
!Nonpast
| style="text-align: center;"|shylen
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! style="text-align: center;"|Second Person
!Past
| style="text-align: center;"|wilt
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| style="text-align: center;"|willeþ
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!Imperative
!Present
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! style="text-align: center;"|Third Person
| style="text-align: center;"|gé
| style="text-align: center;"|géþ
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==Syntax==
===Comparisons===
Comparative forms use a particle followed by the noun(s) being compared to. Depending on that noun's case will determine which noun is first making the comparison. These can imply drastically different meanings, for example:
*"He ate pie quicker than '''I'''" would yield "than <u>I ate pie</u>" (in this example the compared noun is in the nominative).
*"He ate pie quicker than '''me'''" would yield "than <u>he ate me</u>" (in this example the compared noun is in the accusative).


==Syntax==
Dependent clauses have this special word order: Subject - Indirect Object - Direct Object - Instrument - Verb.
Relative clauses have their own, to come soon.
===Word Order===
===Word Order===
The standard word order is different for different sentence types.
The standard word order is V2; when a phrase, clause, adverb, or adjective precedes the subject for emphasis, the second argument is always the verb. This can be demonstrated in the somewhat archaic or fanciful use "''From the ground'' '''grew''' the tree." Word order is flexible due to conjugations however the primary form for independent clauses is Subject-Verb-Object. Questions without interrogative pronouns(yes or no) have verb first and subject second.
*Declarative: Subject - Instrument - Verb - Indirect Object - Direct Object
Dependent clauses have a special word order:
*Interrogative: Instrument - Verb - Subject - Indirect Object - Direct Object
*Subject
*Exclamatory: Subject - Instrument - Verb - Indirect Object - Direct Object
*Indirect Object
===Comparisons===
*Direct Object
Comparative forms use the particle "ðann" followed by the noun(s) being compared to. Depending on that noun's case will determine which noun is first making the comparison. For example:
*Instrument
*"He jumped quicker than '''I'''" would yield "than I [jumped]" (in this example the compared noun is in the nominative).
*Verb.
*"He jumped quicker than '''me'''" would yield "than [he jumped] me" (in this example the compared noun is in the accusative).
Relative clauses follow the same pattern as independent clauses when appended to independent clauses and follow the dependent pattern when appended to a dependent clause.


==Germanic Umlaut==
===Sound Shift===
''coming soon...''
===Occurrences===
*Certain plurals of strong nouns
*Genitive and dative singular of some nouns
*Second and third person singular indicative of some verbs
*Comparatives and superlatives
*Derivative verbs (of nouns)
*Abstract nouns with the -þ suffix
*Nouns with the -enn feminine suffix
==Dictionary==
==Dictionary==
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===Affixes===
Some morphmemes. not including inflections
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable" style="width: 500px; "
! scope="row"|Affixes
! scope="col"|Meaning
! scope="col"|Type
! scope="col"|Etymology
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! scope="row"|be
|On verbs, "to make (in)to", replace ge-
|prefix
|Common Germanic
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! scope="row"|er
|angelic
|prefix
|OE "ār-"
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! scope="row"|eft
|again, re-
|prefix
|OE "eft-", PGmc *"aift"
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! scope="row"|el
|foreign, other
|prefix
|Old English "el-"
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! rowspan="3" scope="row"|en
|feminine nouns
|suffix
|Old English "-en"
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|full of, characterized by
|suffix
|OE, Ger, Du "-en"
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|having the qualities of, commonly used with metals on the periodic table
|suffix
|Old English "-en", OHG "-ein", Latin "inus", "ine"
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!év
|implying battle or struggle, seen in the name of the language itself
|prefix
|Old Evonish "ev-"
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! scope="row"|far
|paternal prefix
|prefix
|Swedish "far-"
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! scope="row"|ga
|syn-, together
|prefix
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! scope="row"|ge
|past-participles
|prefix
|common germanic
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! scope="row"|in
|diminuitives neuter nouns
|suffix
|Old English "-en", "-in"
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! rowspan="2" scope="row"|ix
|forms adjectives
|suffix
|Old English "-isc"
|-
|language names
|suffix
|OE "-isc", Swedish "-sk"
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! scope="row"|ken
|forms diminuitives
|suffix
|common germanic
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! scope="row"|land
|place names
|suffix
|Old English "-land"
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! scope="row"|lic
| -like
|suffix
|common germanic
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! scope="row"|man
|workers of tasks
|suffix
|common germanic
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! scope="row"|mer
|of or pertaining to the sea
|prefix
|Old English "mere-"
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! scope="row"|mor
|maternal prefix
|prefix
|Swedish "mor-"
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! scope="row"|oft
|frequent, often
|prefix
|Old English "oft"
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! scope="row"|or
|out of, outward
|prefix
|OE"or-",Ger"ur-",Du"-oor"
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! scope="row"|regn
|arch-, chief
|prefix
|Old English "regn-"
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! scope="row"|ur
|proto
|prefix
|German "ur-"
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! rowspan="2" scope="row"|wer
|inhabitants of
|suffix
|OE "-wer" NE "-er"
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|of or pertaining to man
|prefix
|OE "were-"
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! scope="row"|werd
|forms directions
|suffix
|Old English "-weard"
|}
===To add===
Soon to be added to contionary after a little management:
*brinnen - to be afire
*graven - to sculpture
*ingraven - to engrave
*kwellen - to torment (with umlaut)
*taken - to reach, to lay hold of(related to touch, to take, and to tuck)
*wacen - to keep watch
*wecken - to wake up (transitive)
*waken - to awaken (intransitive)
*wrýten - to write, to scribe, to shrive
====Noun List====
The noun count is at 72:
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width: 500px; "! style="text-align: center; "
!Noun
!English
!Gender
!Etymology
!General Notes
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!
|diety
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!
|flame
|Masculine
|Old English "æled", Swedish "eld"
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!
|ash tree
|Masculine
|Old English "æsc"
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!asce
|ash, ashes
|Feminine
|Old English "æsce"
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!atter
|poison
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|Old English "ator", Old High German "eitar"
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!berc
|birch
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|Old English "beorc"
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!blou
|blue
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|Old English "blaw", Old Frisian "blo"
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!bladz
|lightning
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|Old English "bladesung", German "Blitz"
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!breun
|brown
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|Old English "brun", German "braun"
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!dag
|day
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|Old English "dæg"
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!
|valley
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|Old English "dæl"
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!doom
|Modern English "doom"
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!
|law
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|Old English "dom" law, judgement
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!
|judgement
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|Old English "dom" law, judgement
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!
|apparition, illusion
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|Old English "dwimor", Modern English "dwimmer"
|akin to ghost
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!
|ice
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|Old English "is", German "Eis"
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!
|alien
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|"elles" + "in" |calque of Latin "alius" + "ine"
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!
|fable
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!
|fee
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|Modern English "fee"
|loan word from English
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!
|field
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|Old English "feld", German "Feld"
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!
|enemy, foe
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|Old English "feogan", "fah"
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!
|property
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|Old English "feoh"
|name of the f rune
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!
|demon, devil, evil spirit
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|Old English "feond" from the past participle of "feogan", i. e. Literally "hated"
|Feo replaces the original sense as in Old Eng
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!
|friend
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|Old English "freond" German "Freund"
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!
|ghost, spirit
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|Old English "gast", Dutch "geest", German "Geist"
|usage greatly expanded in compounds
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!
|rival
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|Old English "gefa"
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!
|comrade
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|Old English "gesiþ"
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!
|money
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|Dutch, German "gelt" "Geld"
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!
|guild, brotherhood
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|Old Norse "gildi"
|related to "geld" and "yield"
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!
|gift
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|Old English "gift"
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!
|gray
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|Old English "græg"
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!
|green
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|Old English "grene"
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!
|tax
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|Old English "gield"
|same root as "yield"
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!
|hail
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|Mercian (Old English) "hegel"
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!
|yellow
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|Old English "geolwe"
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!
|cat
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|Old English "catt", Old English "catte", Dutch "kat"
|merge of "catt" and "catte"
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!
|torch
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|Old English "cen"
|name for the k rune
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!
|coat
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|English "coat", German "Kotze"
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!
|lake
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|Old English "lacu", Old Norse "lögr"
|vowel influenced by Norse
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!
|purple
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|Dutch, Swedish "lila" German "Lila"
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!
|mankind
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|Old English "mancynn", German "Mann"
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!
|man
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|Old English "man, mann" German "Mann"
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!
|moon
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|Old English "mona"
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!
|waste ground
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|Old English "mor"
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!
|serpent
|Feminine
|Old English "nædre"
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!
|need
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|Mercian "ned", Old Norse "nauðr"
|Mercian noun, Norse verb
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!
|orange
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|Old Frisian "orenge"
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!
|pear
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|Old English "pere, peru"
|developed like Modern English
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!
|ride, journey
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|Old Norse "riða", Modern English "ride"
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!
|rose
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|Latin "Rosa"
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!
|red (n)
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|Old English "read", German "Rot" Old Norse "rauðr"
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!Scäd
|demonic spirit
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|Modern English "shade"
|of mythic sense
|-
!
|shadow
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|Old English "sceaduwe", "sceadu"
|irregular
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!
|snake
|Masculine
|Old English "snaca"
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!
|spike
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|Old Norse "spik"
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!
|sorrow
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|Old English "sorg", "sorh"
|lost voiced velar fricative
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!Soul
|soul
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|Old English "sawol"
|pronounce "sowul"
|-
!
|sun
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|Old English "sunne"
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!
|black (n)
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|Old English "sweart"
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|-
!
|tale
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|Old English "talu", Old Frisian "tale"
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|-
!
|number
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|Old Saxon "tala" Old English "tæl", German "Zahl"
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!
|trust
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|Old Norse "Traust"
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!
|soldier
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|Old English "þegn"
|N.Eng "thane"
|-
!Þorn
|thorn
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|Old English "þorn"
|name for "th" rune
|-
!
|white
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|Old English, Old Saxon, Old Frisian "hwit"
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!
|truth
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|Old English "wǣr"
|nominal "treu"
|-
!
|wind
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|Old English "wind"
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|-
!
|joy
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|Old English "wynn", German "Wonne"
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!wulf
|wolf
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|Old English "wulf"
|same vowel as luft
|-
|}
====Verb List====
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{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
!Verb
!English
!Etymology
!Notes
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!fegen
|to add
|Old English "fegan", Dutch "voegen", German "fügen"
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!to bring forth
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!been
|to be
|Old English "beon"
|one of two forms of "to be"
|-
!
|to dwell, to occupy
|Old English "buan"
|shares roots with beeon
|-
!burnen
|to ignite
|Old English "baernan" and "beornan", Dutch "branden", German "brennen", Modern English "burn"
|
|-
!breken
|to break
|Old English "brecan", Dutch "breken", German "brechen", Pgmc *brekan
|CG
|-
!deemen
|to judge
|Old English "deman", Modern English "to deem"
|
|-
!don
|to do
|Old English "don", Dutch "doen", Ger "tun", Wgmc *don
|This also is used as an auxilary with infinitives.
|-
!ðanken
|to thank
|
|c. f. English "thanks" German "danke"
|-
!efttellen
|to retell, recount
|from eft + tellan, literally meaning re + tell
|
|-
!enden
|to end, to discontinue
|Old English "endian"
|
|-
!eten
|to eat
|Old English "etan"
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|-
!
|to journey, to travel
|Old English "faran" Dutch "varen" German "fahren"
|
|-
!follen
|to fall
|Old English "feallan"
|
|-
!fillen
|to fill, to replenish, to restock
|Old English "fyllon", Dutch "vullen"
|
|-
!folgen
|to follow
|Old English "fylgan", German "folgen", Dutch "volgen"
|
|-
!feogen
|to hate
|Old English "feogan", compare "foe" and "fiend"
|
|-
!fregen
|to like, to favor
|Old English "freogan", related to "friend"
|
|-
!forstanden
|to understand
|Old English "understandan", "forstanden", German "verstehen"
|English's is of the idea of standing admist objects, others use the idea of standing before
|-
!gabinden
|to combind
|"ga-" + "bindan""
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|-
!
|to gather, to unite
|Old English "gaderian"
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|-
!
|to compare
|"ga-" + "seekan"
|
|-
!
|to recall
|Old English "feoh"
|
|-
!
|to terrify, to leave agast
|Old English "gæstan"
|gæst means ghost
|-
!
|to equip
|Old High German "garawen " meaning "to make ready"
|related to gear
|-
!haven
|to have
|Old English "habban"
|irregular, forms the perfect aspect
|-
!holden
|to care for, to foster
|Anglian "haldan", West Saxon "healdan"
|same root as "hold"
|-
|to hold, to grasp
|
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|-
!heeden
|to heed
|Old English "hedan", Modern English "heed"
|
|-
!
|to throw outward
|Old Norse "kasta"
|is used to translate "cast" in English sense "cast a spell"
|-
!
|to agree
|Old English "beclencan"
|sense change from to hold onto
|-
!
|to draw near
|Old English "cuman", German "kommen"
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!
|to knife
|noun "kneif" from Old Norse "knifr"
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!
|to be able
|Old English "cunnan" and German "kennen"
|only sense is "to be able", followed by an infinitive
|-
!
|to know
|
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!
|to moisten
|Old English "leccan"
|c. f. "leekan", "lake"
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!
|to allow
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!
|to leak
|Middle Dutch "leken", Modern English "to leak"
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!
|to live
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!
|to be like
|Old English "lic"
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|-
!
|to like
|Old English "lician"
|directly related to leican and suffix "lic" common germanic
|-
!
|to lift
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!
|to love
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!magen
|to be permitted
|Old English "magan"
|irregular, with cognates of both may and might in its inflections
|-
!
|to "must"
|Old English "motan" Dutch "moeten"
|irregular, with cognates of both mote and must in its inflections
|-
!
|to mind
|see "mund"
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!needen
|to need
|Mercian "ned", Old Norse "nauðr"
|noun influenced by Mercian, verb influenced by Norse
|-
!nimen
|to take
|Old English "niman", German "nehmen"
|strong
|-
!
|to split
|Old norse "rifa", mod eng "rive"
|
|-
!reken
|to reason
|
|c. f. reckon
|-
!renden
|to tear, to cur
|Old English "rendon", Modern English "rend"
|Neuter
|-
!
|to cross
|Old English "rood"
|rood means cross (Old Eng)
|-
!
|to strike
|Old English "slean" to slay, German "schlagen" to slay, to strike
|common germanic
|-
!
|to be
|Old English "seeon"
|one of two forms of "to be"
|-
!
|to say
|Old English "secgan"
|object is words, not languages
|-
!
|to slay
|Old English "slean" to slay, German "schlagen" to slay, to strike
|
|-
!
|to strike a spark
|Old English "slean" to strike a spark
|
|-
!seeken
|to seek
|
|strong
|-
!scaven
|to shave
|
|strong
|-
!scowen
|to show
|
|strong
|-
!
|to dispute, to argue
|
|
|-
!spreken
|to speak
|
|object is languages, not words, strong
|-
!standen
|to stand
|
|
|-
!swelten
|to die
|Old English, Old Saxon "sweltan"
|
|-
!
|to discard
|ut + þreowan
|English phrasal verb "throw out"
|-
!
|to absorb
|
|paralleled with Modern English "take in"
|-
!
|to count
|Old English "tellan", Dutch "tellen"
|for recount see "efttellan"
|-
!
|to toss, to pass
|Modern English "toss" thought to be from a scandinavian source
|
|-
!
|to think
|Old English "þencan"
|related to "to think"
|-
!
|to throw
|Old English "þrawan"
|
|-
!
|to seem, appear as
|Old English "þyncan", Early Modern English "methinks" (it seems to me, not I think)
|related to "to think" This word was historically confused with Old English "þencan" and merged in Middle English
|-
!
|to wane, fade
|Old English "wanian"
|used of lunar phases, but also power, intensity, degree, ect
|-
!
|to twist, to coil
|Old English "windon"
|from root of "wind"
|-
!wenden
|to move
|Old English "wendon"
|irregular, from root of "wind"
|-
!
|to want, to will for
|Old English "willan", "wyllon"
|
|-
!
|to wander
|Old English "wandrian"
|from root of "wind"
|-
!
|to warp, to distort
|Old English "weorpan"
|
|-
!
|to wone, reside
|Old English "wunian"
|
|-
|}


==Example texts==
==Example texts==
 
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Evonish (subject to constant renaming) is a constructed language (for a possible constructed world) mostly limited to my day dreaming and notebooks. It is a-posetriori and influenced primarily by (West) Germanic, (Insular) Celtic, and Russian. Its phoneme inventory is based on General American phonology. The wordstock has many influences of Germanic languages, Celtic languages, Slavic languages, and some a priori vocabulary.

Imagine Germanic tribes such as the Anglo-Saxons and the eastern gathering together with Celts and sailing the Baltic Sea. They landed near modern day Saint Petersburg where they established their own nation-state, absorbing some northern Russian groups.


Evonish
Evonic (?)
Progress: 22%
Type
Fusional
Alignment
Nominative-Accusative
Head direction
Initial Mixed Final
Primary word order
Verb-second
Tonal
No
Declensions
Yes
Conjugations
Yes
Genders
Common/Neuter
Nouns decline according to...
Case Number
Definiteness Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice Mood
Person Number
Tense Aspect


Objectives

  • to create a poetic, flowing language
  • to preserve old Germanic grammar
  • to preserve Celtic vocabulary
  • to create a left-hand friendly writing system

Phonology

Æ-Tensing, a process by which the vowel /æ/ is raised and lengthened to produce /æ̝ˑ/ before a nasal consonant, is in free variation and is merely an allophone. Iotation may feature in the language for a form of inflection. Palatalization occurs in /sk/ consonant clusters rendering them /ʃ/.

Consonants

Parenthesis indicate allophones.

Bilabial Labio-dental Dental Alveolar Post-alveolar Palatal Labio-velar Velar Glottal
m /m/ n /n/ ŋ /ŋ/ Nasal
p /p/ b /b/ t /t/ d /d/ k /k/ g /g/ Plosive
f /f/ v /v/ þ /θ/ ð /ð/ s /s/ z /z/ c /ʃ/ ʒ /ʒ/ x /x/ h /h/ Fricative
r /ɹ/ j /j/ q /ʍ/ w /w/ Approximant
l /l/ Lateral

Vowels

Parenthesis indicate allophones. The following table includes the rhotic vowels as well.

Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
í /i/ ú /u:/ Close
i /ɪ/ y /ʊ/ Near-close
é /e:/, /e˞ː/ ó /o:/ Close-mid
e /ə/ Mid
e /ɛ/, /ɛ˞ː/ /ɝː/ u /ʌ/ · œ /ɔ/, or /ɔ˞ː/ Open-mid
æ /æ/ (æ̝ˑ) Near-open
a /ɑ/, ar /ɑ˞/ Open

Writing

The writing system is based on a Latin alphabet, which represents the scope of the romance influence on the language. Additionally, the alphabet is greatly modified from the traditional Roman variant with a handful of relatively unique characters. The language may be written from right to left, so long as the capital letter at the beginning of the sentence is at the write, and the form is consistent throughout. The exact phonetic equivalents can be found in the tables above. A tailed z gradually developed to represent the zh sound, now represented by the character ʒ.

The thirty-two letter alphabet is a modified Latin alphabet that contains the following bookstaves:

  • æ, a, b, c, d, ð, e, f, g, h i, j, k, l, m, n, ŋ, œ, o, p, q, r, s, t, þ, u, v, w, x, y, z, ʒ.

The archaic characters are ƕ(hwair) and ƿ(Wynn), which represent q and w respectively. The IPA for Varevon is sorely out of date, and is subject to change soon. Umlauts are written with a diaeresis/umlaut, and doubled vowels indicate long vowels or gemination.

Pronouns

Personal pronouns are the most complex. The sole relative pronoun is [TBD].

Person Number Nominative Accusative Genitive Dative
Singular First
Second
Common
Neuter
Plural First
Second
Third
Indefinite Reflexive
Interrogative Common
Neuter

Determiners

The negative article is understood as indefinite; there is no negative definite article so the verb of the sentence is negated instead. Determines are key to distinguish to distinguishing gender. the E at the end of some determiner plurals is an ancient pluralizing form.

Determiners Article Demonstrative
Definite Indefinite Negative Proximal Distal
Common Singular
Plural -
Neuter Singular
Plural

Table of Correlatives

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Morphology

Adjectives

Certain adjectives decline only in an attributive position; they do not in a predicative position. Cf. German die schwarze Magd vs die Magd ist schwarz. Some adjectives undergo mutation. Furthermore, there are many common affixes which form adjectives, whose list will be available in time.

Mutations

Ablaut

In progress

Grammatischer Wechsel

The language is descended from Proto-Germanic. Thus it includes Grimm's Law and Verner's Law; however, it retains a unique variant, as does all modern Germanic descendants. It's variant of these two laws creates different sound changes within verb paradigms known as the Grammatischer Wechsel. Commas indicate the second phoneme occurs in the case of Verner's Law. Phonemes in parenthesis were allophones and innovations in their respective languages.

Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Old Norse Old English Old High German Evonish
*p *ɸ, β f f (v) f, b ???

Umlaut

Nouns

Their declension depends upon case and number. The plural genitive ending is used in compound words much like kennings. The umlaut occurs in some plurals, in some cases, and sometimes in whole words. The vocative, instrumental, and locative forms disappeared since Proto-Germanic. A pseudo-vocative form is made with the clitic O' (from Celtic) and uses the zero conjugation.

Strong

The vowel a became associated with plural and e with singular. Vowel dropping may be apparent spoken, but it is not written, such as Engel not declining to Eng'la.

Strong - Engel (Angel) Singular Plural
Nominative/Accusative Engel Engelas
Genitive Engeles Engela
Dative Engele Engelam

Weak

Weak - Name (name) Singular Plural
Nominative/Accusative Name Namen
Genitive Name(n)s Nam(en)a
Dative Namen Namen

Augmentative & Diminutive

Lots of Stuff here

Verb

Verbs or verb forms in quotes are either an English equivalent or a work in progress. The infinitives of the frequentative form are -eln and -ern; these can be made of many verbs. The infinitive form in Evonish is the lemma form of the verb, meaning it is the one used in dictionaries. The primary aspects are simple, perfect, progressive, habitual, and inchoative. Simple aspect is used for:

  • Stative verbs
  • Gnomic aspect

Further aspects are formed by nonstandard ways or purely by context.

Copula

There will be both copular and semi-copular verbs. The copula is the most inflected and suppletive verb in the entire language.

Paradigms

Form Suffix
Lemma
Frequentative
Aspect Main Auxiliary
Habitual infinitive "to do"
Inchoative supine "to begin"
Perfect past participle "to have"
Progressive present participle "to be"
Tense Person Auxiliary
Future First "shall"
Second "will"
Third "go"

The particle [TBD] after the main verb negates the verb. The following table shows the conjugation of the verb fällen, a weak 1 class verb. The auxiliary verbs in the table are the verbs used with the participles to form two different aspects.

zdfbzdcb
Nonfinite Infinitive
Gerund
Supine
Participle Tense Positive Negative
Present
Past
Mood Tense Singular Plural
Indicative Present [TBD]
[TBD]
[TBD]
Past [TBD]
[TBD] [TBD]
[TBD] [TBD]
Subjunctive Nonpast
Past
Imperative Present

Syntax

Comparisons

Comparative forms use a particle followed by the noun(s) being compared to. Depending on that noun's case will determine which noun is first making the comparison. These can imply drastically different meanings, for example:

  • "He ate pie quicker than I" would yield "than I ate pie" (in this example the compared noun is in the nominative).
  • "He ate pie quicker than me" would yield "than he ate me" (in this example the compared noun is in the accusative).

Word Order

The standard word order is V2; when a phrase, clause, adverb, or adjective precedes the subject for emphasis, the second argument is always the verb. This can be demonstrated in the somewhat archaic or fanciful use "From the ground grew the tree." Word order is flexible due to conjugations however the primary form for independent clauses is Subject-Verb-Object. Questions without interrogative pronouns(yes or no) have verb first and subject second. Dependent clauses have a special word order:

  • Subject
  • Indirect Object
  • Direct Object
  • Instrument
  • Verb.

Relative clauses follow the same pattern as independent clauses when appended to independent clauses and follow the dependent pattern when appended to a dependent clause.

Dictionary

Kinship
Grandmother Grandfather Grandmother Grandfather
 
 
 
Uncles Wife Uncle Uncles Wife Uncle Uncles Wife Uncle Aunts husband Aunt Aunts husband Aunt Aunts husband Aunt Father Mother Uncles Wife Uncle Uncles Wife Uncle Uncles Wife Uncle Aunts husband Aunt Aunts husband Aunt Aunts husband Aunt
 
 
 
Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin
 
 
Twin Sisters Husband Twin Sister Little Sisters Husband Little Sister Big Sisters Huband Big Sister Wife Self Husband Big Brother  Big Brothers Wife Little Brother Little Brothers Wife Twin Brother Twin Brothers Wife
 
 
 
Niece Nephew Niece Nephew Niece Nephew Son Daughter Son Daughter Niece Nephew Niece Nephew Niece Nephew

Example texts

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