Flei

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

Shemroghian, natively thabbåthănå Šemrăghåkhănå (< PCel sindā tangwāts swemrogākā 'own region's language') is a vernacular in Méich Bhaonnáiqh; it's an IE language belonging to the Celtic family (or possibly a stem-Celtic). 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 Mabinogion as Mabhnoghin?

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)

change o to a? bodhi > badhi

Phonology

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

v = bh

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/

Stress shifts to ultimate stress, and then to the last non-ultimate non-shva syllable

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns have 3 genders (m, f, n), 2 numbers (sg, pl) and 3 cases (nom, gen, prep/dat), and also inflect for definiteness. The dative is used for indirect objects, and sometimes for prepositional objects. When a locative 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)

The pl gen of nouns declines as an -o/-ā adjective.

The definite article is hid-/hiC- (when not leniting) or hī (when leniting).

-o stems

map (m.) 'boy' (< *makkʷos)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	map mappăsen	mappun mappănun
Genitive	mappi mappăni	mappåkh mappănen
Dative	mappu mappănu	mappåbh mappănåbh

dun (n.) 'fort' (< *dūnom)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dun dunănen	dunå dunănå
Genitive	duni dunăni	dunåkh dunănen
Dative	dunu dunănu	dunåbh dunănåbh

-yo stems

ári 'lion' (random semantic shift from *aryos 'noble one')

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ári aryăsen	aryun aryănun
Genitive	aryi aryăni	aryåkh aryănen
Dative	aryu aryănu	aryåbh aryănåbh

-ā stems

breghå (f.) 'power, might' (< *brigā)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	breghå breghănå	breghån breghănån
Genitive	breghåh breghăsåh	breghåkh breghănen
Dative	breghe breghăne	breghåbh breghănåbh

-i stems

Old m:

knåm (m.) 'bone' (< *knāmis)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	knåm knåmăsen	knåmin knåmănun
Genitive	knåmeh knåmăsi	knåmekh knåmănen
Dative	knåmi knåmănu	knåmebh knåmănåbh

Old neuters:

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

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mor	moryå
Genitive	măreh	mărekh
Dative	mări	mărebh

-ī stems

bledhăni (f.) 'year' (< *blēdanī)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bledhăni	bledhănin
Genitive	bledhanyåh	bledhănekh
Dative	bledhanye	bledhănebh

-u-stems

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

m/f:

dăréseτ (m.) 'door' (< *dworestus)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dăréseτ	dărisτun
Genitive	dărisτoh	dărisτåkh
Dative	dărisτu	dărisτåbh

neuter:

eydh (n.) 'fire' (< *aidu)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	eydh	eydhå
Genitive	eydhoh	eydhåkh
Dative	eydhu	eydhåbh

Consonant stems

some rethematize to ā feminines

minå (f.) 'month' (< *mīns)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	minå	minån
Genitive	minåh	minåkh
Dative	mine	minåbh

kahăru (f.) 'sheep' (< *kaφerūxs)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kahăru	kahăråkhån
Genitive	kahăråkh	kahăråkhåkh
Dative	kahăråkh	kahăråkhåbh

Adjectives

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

-o/-ā stems

bån 'white' (< *bānos)

	sg. m.	sg. f.	sg. n.	pl. m.	pl. f.	pl. n.
Nominative	bån	bånå	bån	bånun	bånån	bånå
Genitive	båni	bånåh	båni	bån
Dative	bånu	båne	bånu	bånåbh

-yo/-yā stems

bódhi 'yellow' (< *bodyos)

	sg. m.	sg. f.	sg. n.	pl. m.	pl. f.	pl. n.
Nominative	bódhi	bodhyå	bódhi	bodhyun	bodhyån	bodhyå
Genitive	bodhyi	bodhyåh	bodhyi	bódhi
Dative	bodhyu	bodhye	bodhyu	bodhyåbh

-i/-ī stems

math 'good' (< *matis)

	sg. m.	sg. f.	sg. n.	pl. m.	pl. f.	pl. n.
Nominative	math	măthi	math	măthin
Genitive	mătheh	mathyåh	mătheh	mathi
Dative	măthi	mathye	măthi	măthebh

-u stems

dobh 'black' (< *dubus)

	sg. m.	sg. f.	sg. n.	pl. m.	pl. f.	pl. n.
Nominative	dobh			dăbhun
Genitive	dăbhoh			dobh
Dative	dăbhu			dăbhåbh

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

SVO; mainly JBA features, but with some remnants of Proto-Celtic syntax (as Aoife imagines it)