User:Chrysophylax/Idephines
My latest chamlang, in the style of Dhannuá being "plausibly Celtic" at first glance, this shall be "plausibly at first glance" a mystical love child of Proto-Greek and Proto-Albanian, avec dashes of liquamen. It is named after the Boeotian word for sweet-voiced, ἴδηφιν.
Changes from Proto-Indo-European
Misc. changes pilfered from Proto-Albanian and Proto-Greek
- /s/ > /χ/ \ V_V, /s/ > /θ/ \ _V, /χ/ \ -_k-, /θ/ \ -_d-
- /y/ > /dy/ \ #_
- Loss of final stop consonants; /m/ > /n/ \ _#
- /h₁/, /h₂/, /h₃/ > /e/ /a/ /o/ \ V_V, _C
- CRHC > CRēC, CRāC, CrōC [1-2-3]
Plosives
- /p/ > /p/
- /t/ > /t/
- /k/ > /k/, /χ/ \#_R
- "/b/" > /b/
- /d/ > /d/,
- /g/ > /g/
- /bh/ > /b/, /ph/ \ R_, V_V
- /dh/ > /d/, /th/ \ R_, V_V, /thy/ > /čč/ > /θ/
- /gh/ > /g/, /χ/ \ R_, V_V, /khy/ > /čč/ > /θ/ \ #_
Pilfered from Aeolic
- VhR (from *s) > VRR, where R = l n r m w y
- Mostly athematic inflection (-mi set)
- Athematic infinitive in -menai, thematic in -men