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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoric_I Theodoric] agreed to follow the word of the Pope, and he moved his kingdom east. They settled on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbe Elbe] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warta Warta]. He also adopted the name ''Fīnēs Rōmae'' (The borders of Rome). As a thanks, the Romans sent their best architects to design places for the Simmecks to live. Eventually, the Latin name dropped and instead the Old Mergian name ''Rumi marga'' stuck. That name evolved to the word ''Rommerg'' which is where the word ''Mergian'' comes from.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoric_I Theodoric] agreed to follow the word of the Pope, and he moved his kingdom east. They settled on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbe Elbe] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warta Warta]. He also adopted the name ''Fīnēs Rōmae'' (The borders of Rome). As a thanks, the Romans sent their best architects to design places for the Simmecks to live. Eventually, the Latin name dropped and instead the Old Mergian name ''Rumi marga'' stuck. That name evolved to the word ''Rommerg'' which is where the word ''Mergian'' comes from.


It is important to note that there is no documented "Old Mergian" language. It is simply used as a catch-all term for the language spoken before Modern Mergian.


===Sound Changes===
===Sound Changes===
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==== Pronouns ====
==== Pronouns ====


The personal pronouns were inherited almost exactly from Gothic.
The personal pronouns were inherited almost exactly from Gothic. The 3p pronoun come from two different sources. The accusative, genitive and dative declensions all come from [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%90%8C%B4%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8D%83#Gothic eis], the nominative is an innovation so that it would fit the -ð paradigm of ''við'' and ''juð''. The 3sn pronoun ''ta'' was influenced by Slavic *to


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|-
!Nominative  
!Nominative  
|| ig || þo || e || rowspan="2" | da || si || við || juð || ið ||  
|| ig || þo || e || rowspan="2" | ta || si || við || juð || ið ||  
|-
|-
!Accusative
!Accusative
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|}
|}


* The 3p pronoun come from two different sources. The accusative, genitive and dative declensions all come from [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%90%8C%B4%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8D%83#Gothic eis], the nominative is an innovation so that it would fit the -ð paradigm of ''við'' and ''juð''.


The demonstrative pronouns changed a slight bit. These pronouns used to also be used to mark definiteness, but Mergian lost that feature. Most namely did the pronouns in the nominative change. ''sa'' replaced Old Mergian ''sou'' (which had come from [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%90%8D%83%F0%90%8D%89#Gothic sō]) to prevent merging with the relative particle ''sou'' (which had come from [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%90%8D%83%F0%90%8D%85%F0%90%8C%B4#Gothic swē]). ''sen'' replaced Old Mergian ''sa'', to fit the -a paradigm of feminine nouns. The accusatives were innovated to fit their nominative counterparts, except for the neuter and the plural. Lasty, final vowels got dropped off as a result of fast speech eliding them.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Demonstrative pronouns
|-
! !! Masculine !! Neuter !! Feminine !! Plural
|-
! Nominative
| sen
| rowspan="2" | þed
| sa
| þai
|-
! Accusative
| þen
| þa
| þans
|-
! Genitive
| colspan="2" | þe
| þis
| þizei
|-
! Dative
| colspan="2" | þem
| þizai
| þaim
|}
The interrogative pronouns experienced the most alteration from Gothic.
In Old Mergian, two sets of pronouns existed for the interrogative: the simple and the intensive. The simple was derived from the words [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%90%8D%88%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8D%83#Gothic ƕas] (who) and [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%90%8D%88%F0%90%8C%B0#Gothic ƕa] (what). The intensive was derived from the word [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%90%8D%88%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8C%B8%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8D%82#Gothic ƕaþar] (which of them, originally "which of the two" but duals replaced plurals in pronouns). The difference in the simple and the intensive was the emphasis placed on the object of interrogation. With time, the simple came to only be used with inanimate objects and the intensive came to only be used with animate objects.
Since Old Mergian was out of a pronoun meaning "which of the two" and "which of them", the words *ƕa-baddjē and *ƕa-ize ("what of the two" and "what of them" respectively) began to be used to refer to inanimate nouns and *mannē-ƕas ("who of the men/people") began to be used to refer to animate nouns. These words evolved and lexicalized into the modern Mergian pronouns used today.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align"center"
|+ Interrogative pronouns
! !! What? !! Who? !! Which (of the two)? !! Which (of them)? || Who (of them)?
|-
! Nominative
| ha
| haðar
| haaðei
| haazei
| maniwa
|}
 
==== Declension ====
==== Declension ====


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