User:Chrysophylax/Idephines

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 Boeotian word for sweet-voiced, ἴδηφιν.

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

• /s/ > /χ/ \ V_V, _R /s/ > /θ/ \ _V, /χ/ \ -_k-, /θ/ \ -_d-, /ʃ/ \ [r u̯ k i̯]_V, /i̯/ \ V̄_#
• /y/ > /dy/ \ #_

θυγον thúgon 'yoke' < *čúgon < *dyúgon < PIE *yugóm

• Loss of final stop consonants

P, T, K > 0 \ _#

• /m/ > /n/ \ _#
• /h₁/, /h₂/, /h₃/ > /e/ /a/ /o/ \ V_V, _C

ενεν énen 'name' < PIE *h₁nómn̥-,

• CRHC > CRēC, CRāC, CrōC [1-2-3]
• laryngeal colouring and compensatory lengthening of following vowels

/h₁e/, /h₂e/, /h₃e/ > /ē/, /ā/, /ō/

ααντηρηι ā́ntērēi 'ancestors' < PIE *h₂en-tḗr-

ωφώχωι ōphṓχōi 'of a serpent' < PIE *h₃egʷ-

Plosives

• /p/ > /p/
• /t/ > /t/
• /k/ > /k/, /χ/ \#_R,
• "/b/" > /b/
• /d/ > /d/,
• /g/ > /g/
• /bʱ/ > /b/, /ph/ \ R_, V_V, #_R

φρατηρ phrā́tēr 'brother' < PIE *bʰréh₂tēr

• /dh/ > /d/, /th/ \ R_, V_V, /thy/ > /čč/ > /θ/
• /gʱ/ > /g/, /χ/ \ R_, V_V, /khy/ > /čč/ > /θ/ \ #_
• /gʷ/ > /b/

βορι bori 'hill' < PIE *gʷor̥, o-grade of *gʷr̩H—,

• /gʷ/ > /T/ \ _e

δην dēn 'woman' < PIE *gʷḗn

δηφινωι dḗphinōi 'of the living' < PIE *gʷeyh₃w-n̩-, but βιφος bíphos 'alive' < PIE *gʷih₃wos

θεμμι thémmi 'I strike' < PIE *gʷhen-mi, but βονος bonos 'argument' < *gʷhón-os

• /gʱʷ/ > /pʰ/ \ R_, V_V, /b/

ωφες ōphes 'serpent' < PIE *h₃egʰʷis

• /kʷ/ > /p/

πις pis 'who' < PIE *kʷis

• /kʰʷ/ > /pʰ/ \ R_, V_V, /p/
• /ḱ/ > /θ/ \ _e

θεμμι thémmi 'I say, I talk' < PIE *ḱéh₁mi

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

Resonants

• /r̩/ > /ri/ \ _[s ʃ θ], _#; e.g. Ideph. riθos < *ŕ̥θos (<*arθós) < *h₂r̥ḱθos < PIE *h₂r̥tḱos
• /r̩/ > /ir/ \ _C; e.g. Ideph. χirtus < Pre-Idephin *χr̥tus < PIE *kr̥tus
• /l̩/ > /al/ \ _R
• /l̩/ > /l/ \ V_C Ideph. ulpos < PIE *u̯ĺ̥kʷos
• /l̩/ > /la/ \ _C

Vowels

• /o/ > /u/ \ R_+labial ; e.g. νυιψ nyps 'night' < *nūps < *núpts < PIE *nókʷt-s
• /o/ > /a/
• /ō/ > /o/ ϝηχορ vḗχor 'sister' < *vḗχōr < *χwéχōr < PIE *swésōr
• /u/ > /u/
• /ū/ > /y/
• /e/ > /je/ \R_C
• /e/ > /e/
• /i/ > /i/
• /i/ > /e/ \w_C;
• /ī/ > /i/ viros < *vī́ros < *wíHros < PIE *wiHrós

leykʷ-

V.1

Present stem, active
	1ary indic.
1 sg.	nemmi < *linékʷmi
2 sg.	nepthi < *linékʷsi
3 sg.	nepti < *linékʷti
1 pl.	pimos < *inpimós < *linkʷm̥ós
2 pl.	nipte < *nipte < iṇpté < *linkʷté
3 pl.	penti
participle	ponts, pintes, ponthia, pinthās

V.2

Present stem, active
	1ary indic.
1 sg.	linemmi < *linékʷmi
2 sg.	linepthi < *linékʷsi
3 sg.	linepti < *linékʷti
1 pl.	limpimos < *inpimós < *linkʷm̥ós
2 pl.	linipte < *nipte < iṇpté < *linkʷté
3 pl.	limpenti
participle	ponts, pintes, ponthia, pinthās

Modern Ideph. ?

/θ/ > /s/ / #_, /z/ \ V_V