Flei

Flei
Created by	Inthar
Setting	Verse:Méich Bhaonnáiqh
Language family	Indo-European Celtic Flei

Šemroghe-thabbåthå (< PCel swe-mrogi-tangwāts 'own region's language') is a vernacular in Méich Bhaonnáiqh belonging to the Celtic family. It's inspired by Aramaic and also has Greek and Latin loans that look like Greco-Latin loans in Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic. It's the native language of the player character Ăvišyå (from *Awiswiyā, Aoife's Proto-Celtic interpretation of her own name). It's a fairly typical IE language.

πăraqliτ = advocate, attorney, etc.

askolå, asτråτeghyå, ukhlusin

borrow -ium/-ion as -in: opsarion > uπsărin 'culinary fish', -in is also a diminutive which is used a lot

sP sT sq -> asP asT asq (skhole > askola)

lp

Phonology

Consonants: same as Aramaic but no pharyngeals and no ts and added emphatic p; emphatic stops written π τ (capital Ʈ) q.

Coronal stops/spirants are dental.

Native words only use bgdkpt stops which lenite like in Aramaic; φ > h

Vowels: i e a å o u ă /i e æ A o u ä/

Ultimate or penultimate stress

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns have 3 genders (m, f, n), 2 numbers (sg, pl) and 3 cases (nom, gen, prep/dat). The dative is used for indirect objects, and sometimes for prepositional objects. When a preposition can use both the dative and the accusative, the dative denotes being at the location and the nominative denotes motion towards the location.

turn pl acc to pl nom (happened to Irish definite articles)

-0/-i nouns (-(y)o(s/m))

maph 'boy' (< *makkʷos)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	maph	mappun
Genitive	mappi	mappåkh (an adjective)
Dative	mappu	mappåbh (analogy with new pl. gen.)

dun 'fort' (< *dūnom)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dun	dunå
Genitive	duni	dunåkh
Dative	dunu	dunåbh

-å nouns (-(y)ā)

breghå 'power, might' (< *brigā)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	breghå	breghån
Genitive	breghåh	breghåkh
Dative	breghe	breghåbh

-i stem nouns

Old m/f:

knåm 'bone' (< *knāmis)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	knåm	knåmin
Genitive	knåmeh	knåmekh
Dative	knåmi	knåmebh

Old neuters:

mor (f.) 'sea' (< *mori)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mor	moryå
Genitive	moreh	morekh
Dative	mori	morebh

-u-stem nouns

merge with o-stems at the cost of making gen sg more unpredictable (-i or -o)

m/f:

dăresτ 'door' (< *dworestus)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dăresτ	dăresτun
Genitive	dăresτo	dăresτ(v)åkh
Dative	dăresτu	dăresτ(v)åbh

neuter:

eydh 'fire' (< *aidu)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	eydh	eydh(v)å
Genitive	eydho	eydh(v)åkh
Dative	eydhu	eydh(v)åbh

Consonant stems

kahăru 'sheep' (< *kaφerūxs)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kahăru	kahăråkhån
Genitive	kahăråkh	kahăråkhåkh
Dative	kahăråkh	kahăråkhåbh

Adjectives

o/ā, yo/yā, i/ī, u/wyā

similar to nouns, but gen pl uses the original PCel ending

Verbs

similar to Irish tenses with no compound tenses

• present: mārām, mārāsi, mārāti, mārāmu, mārāte, mārānti, mārātor -> måri, måråh, mårå, mårån, måråth, mårant/måratt, måråthor -> måri mi, måråh tu, måre/måri, mårån nih, måråth ših, måratt eh, mårăthor
• preterite
• future
• imperfect
• conditional
• imperative

Syntax

Similar to Contiental Celtic, with some JBA features