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).

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 are inspired by PCel and only use bgdkpt stops which lenite like in Aramaic; ph > h

Vowels: i e a å o u ă /i e æ A o u ä/

Penult stress

Morphology

Nouns

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

gebher 'goat' (< *gabr < *gabros)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gebher	gabhri
Genitive	gabhri	gabhråkh (< *gabrākos)
Dative	gabhru	gabhrobh
Accusative	gebher	gabhrun
Vocative	gabhre!	gabhri!

-å nouns (-(y)ā)

breghå 'power, might' (< *brigā)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	breghå	breghåh
Genitive	breghåh	breghåkh (< *brigākos)
Dative	breghe	breghåbh
Accusative	breghi	breghån
Vocative	breghå!	breghåh!

Verbs

• mārām, mārāsi, mārāti, mārāmu, mārāte, mārānti, mārātor -> måri, måråh, mårå, mårån, måråth, mårant/måratt, måråthor -> måri mi, måråh tu, måră'e, mårån nih, måråth ših, måratt eh, mårăthor