Verse:Irta/Icelandic Gaelic

Gaelic + Inuit + Hivantish + English

Inuit words subject to Irishy sound changes

word order is more flexible than in Old Irish

Capital: Daomaist, from Hivantish "Dymuwistu" <- dhuHmo-h2westu

Preserves Old Irish /θ ð/

"What if Old Irish became a Balkan sprachbund language, losing infinitives etc."

Morphology

Nouns

Preserves a lot of case inflection in suffixed indefinite articles, via a suffixed áirithe "certain"

Possessive suffices from OIr emphatic clitics? "his" is (lenition)--san

• nom sg. ech áirithe > echar 'a horse'
• gen sg. eich áirithi > eichri
• prep sg. euch áirithiu > echru
• acc sg. euch n-áirithe > echna
• nom pl eich áirithi > eichri
• gen pl ech n-áirithe > echna
• prep pl echaibh
• acc pl echu h-áirithi > echuhar

Definite nouns get the OIr definite article mutations (with no preposed article) + -a(i)s:

• nom sg t-echsa 'the horse'
• gen sg eichse
• prep sg echsa
• acc sg n-echsa
• voc sg a eich!
• nom pl eichse
• gen pl n-echsa
• prep pl echaibhse
• acc pl h-echus
• voc pl a echu!

o-stem masc.

• nom sg. echar
• gen sg. eichri
• prep sg. echru
• acc sg. echna
• nom pl eichri
• gen pl echna
• prep pl echaibh
• acc pl echur
• nom sg t-echsa
• gen sg eichse
• prep sg echsa
• acc sg n-echsa
• voc sg a eich!
• nom pl eichse
• gen pl n-echsa
• prep pl echaibhse
• acc pl h-echus
• voc pl a echu!

ā-stem fem.

• nom sg túathar
• gen sg túaither
• prep sg túaithri
• acc sg túathnai
• nom pl túathár
• gen pl túathna
• dat pl túathaib
• acc pl túathár