Proto-Yeldhic: Difference between revisions

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** Etzeá ''xoisen''
** Etzeá ''xoisen''
** Proto-Ulmic ''*fsan''
** Proto-Ulmic ''*fsan''
*** Ormå ''fsån''
*** Ormå ''fsän''
 
===Prosody===
===Prosody===
====Stress====
====Stress====
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===Morphophonology===
===Morphophonology===
==Morphology==
==Morphology==
===Nouns===
====Number====
Various theories have been proposed on how grammatical number worked in Proto-Yeldhic. The most referred to is the Fulugisáá theory, which states that grammatical number was deduced by the suffix ''-i''. The theory is named after Fulugisáá Tsó-tso, though many attribute the original theory to Zeror, who stated in 260 BH in his ''Republic''([[Ilda]]: ''Kopirrās'') that,<blockquote>"[I] have found a pattern among the many tongues of the ''Plikis''<ref>An ancient term for the peoples in the Paleoyeldhic strip.</ref>, in which they seem to append fully tongued upper open vowels<ref>Zeror's term for an unrounded close front vowel, or [i] in IPA</ref> to nouns to indicate many items of the noun[...]</blockquote>
===Numerals===
===Numerals===
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| ''*ti'' || ''*tʰid-ði'' || ''tikré'' || three
| ''*ti'' || ''*tʰid-ði'' || ''tikré'' || three
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| ''*hihonâ''<ref>In the original ''Tezyém Yéleduhir'', ⟨â⟩ represented a front open vowel, [a]. Most Yeldhists today dispute the existence of the front open vowel in PY, instead arguing for the existence of a more centralised realisation, [ä] in IPA.</ref> || ''*ʕʷišujun'' || ''igoyà'' || four
| ''*hihonâ''<ref>In the original ''Tezyém Yéleduhir'', ⟨â⟩ represented a front open vowel, [a]. Most Yeldhists today dispute the existence of the front open vowel in PY, instead arguing for the existence of a more centralised realisation, [ä] in IPA.</ref> || ''*wiśen'' || ''igoyà'' || four
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| ''*tikumam'' || ''*igʰoīm'' || ''tikoyam'' || five
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