Contionary:*sinɔ-: Difference between revisions

From Linguifex
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m (→‎Descendants: clean up)
 
(4 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{reconstructed}}
{{reconstructed|Proto-Coelo-Caric}}
==Proto-Coelo-Caric==
==Proto-Coelo-Caric==


Line 13: Line 13:
** Modern Silōs: [[Contionary:silōs|silōs]], [[Contionary:Silōs|Silōs]], [[Contionary:Silōti|Silōti]]
** Modern Silōs: [[Contionary:silōs|silōs]], [[Contionary:Silōs|Silōs]], [[Contionary:Silōti|Silōti]]
* Old Carichendan: *sineun
* Old Carichendan: *sineun
** Modern Carichendan: sin, eun (possibly, ''sin'' from syllabic apocope due to use as a proclitic, and ''eun'' from syllabic apheresis due to use as an enclitic; compare modern ''sin ranya'' "a book" versus ''ranya eun'' "one book"; proclitic use was likely an innovation to produce an indefinite article, through analogy with the placement of the demonstrative determiners, which ultimately yielded the definite pronoun ''ra'' "the")
** Modern Carichendan: [[Contionary:sin|sin]], [[Contionary:eun|eun]] (possibly, ''sin'' from syllabic apocope due to use as a proclitic, and ''eun'' from syllabic apheresis due to use as an enclitic; compare modern ''sin ranya'' "a book" versus ''ranya eun'' "one book"; proclitic use was likely an innovation to produce an indefinite article, through analogy with the placement of the demonstrative determiners, which ultimately yielded the definite article ''ra'' "the". The development might have been: *sineun-, *-sineun > *sin-, *-sineun (regular syncope of the reduct vowel) > *sin-, *-sin-eun (reanalysis of *sineun as containing *sin) > *sin-, *(-sin)-eun (*-sin not mandatory due to uniqueness of *-eun) > sin, eun. Alternatively, there could have been a distinction between weak forms and strong forms of function words once Carichendan prosodic stress developed, yielding *sin as a weak form of *sineun, where the reduct vowel was preserved in the strong form, allowing for another scenario of reanalysis of *sineun as containing *sin)


[[Category:Contionary]][[Category:Proto-Coelo-Caric]]
[[Category:Contionary|s]][[Category:Proto-Coelo-Caric words|s]]

Latest revision as of 15:20, 12 September 2022

Asterisk.svg
This Proto-Coelo-Caric entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Coelo-Caric

Etymology

Noun

*sinɔ-s, *sinɔn

  1. one, single, (by extension) one's own nation

Descendants

  • Old Silōs: sinōs
  • Old Carichendan: *sineun
    • Modern Carichendan: sin, eun (possibly, sin from syllabic apocope due to use as a proclitic, and eun from syllabic apheresis due to use as an enclitic; compare modern sin ranya "a book" versus ranya eun "one book"; proclitic use was likely an innovation to produce an indefinite article, through analogy with the placement of the demonstrative determiners, which ultimately yielded the definite article ra "the". The development might have been: *sineun-, *-sineun > *sin-, *-sineun (regular syncope of the reduct vowel) > *sin-, *-sin-eun (reanalysis of *sineun as containing *sin) > *sin-, *(-sin)-eun (*-sin not mandatory due to uniqueness of *-eun) > sin, eun. Alternatively, there could have been a distinction between weak forms and strong forms of function words once Carichendan prosodic stress developed, yielding *sin as a weak form of *sineun, where the reduct vowel was preserved in the strong form, allowing for another scenario of reanalysis of *sineun as containing *sin)