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-, /ʃ/ \ [r u̯ k i̯]_V, /i̯/ \ V̄_#
• /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

Resonants

• /r̩/ > /ri/ \ _[s ʃ θ]; e.g. Ideph. riθos < *r̥θos (<*arθós) < *h₂r̥ḱθos < PIE *h₂r̥tḱos
• /r̩/ > /ir/ \ _C; e.g. Ideph. χirtus < Pre-Idephin *χr̥tus < PIE *kr̥tus
• /l̩/ > /al/ \ _R
• /l̩/ > /l/ \ V_C Ideph. ulpos < PIE *u̯ĺ̥kʷos
• /l̩/ > /la/ \ _C