User:Chrysophylax/Idephines

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My latest chamlang, in the style of Dhannuá being "plausibly Celtic" at first glance, this shall be "plausibly at first glance" a mystical love child of Proto-Greek and Proto-Albanian, avec dashes of liquamen. It is named after the Boetian word for sweet-voiced, ἴδηφιν.

Changes from Proto-Indo-European

Misc. changes pilfered from Proto-Albanian and Proto-Greek

  • /s/ > /h/ \ V_V, /s/ > /θ/ \ _V
  • /y/ > /dy/ \ #_
  • Loss of final stop consonants; /m/ > /n/ \ _#
  • /h₁/, /h₂/, /h₃/ > /e/ /a/ /o/ \ V_V, _C
  • CRHC > CRēC, CRāC, CrōC [1-2-3]

Plosives

  • /p/ > /p/
  • /t/ > /t/
  • /k/ > /k/, /χ/ \#_R
  • "/b/" > /b/
  • /d/ > /d/,
  • /g/ > /g/
  • /bh/ > /b/, /ph/ \ R_, V_V
  • /dh/ > /d/, /th/ \ R_, V_V, /thy/ > /čč/ > /θ/
  • /gh/ > /g/, /χ/ \ R_, V_V, /khy/ > /čč/ > /θ/ \ #_


Pilfered from Aeolic

  • VhR (from *s) > VRR, where R = l n r m w y
  • Mostly athematic inflection (-mi set)
  • Athematic infinitive in -menai, thematic in -men