User:Chrysophylax/Idephines

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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.


Misc. changes pilfered from Proto-Albanian and Proto-Greek

  • /s/ > /χ/ \ V_V, _R /s/ > /θ/ \ _V, /χ/ \ -_k-, /θ/ \ -_d-, /ʃ/ \ [r u̯ k i̯]_V, /i̯/ \ V̄_#
  • /y/ > /dy/ \ #_
θυγον thúgon 'yoke' < *čúgon < *dyúgon < PIE *yugóm
  • Loss of final stop consonants
P, T, K > 0 \ _#
  • /m/ > /n/ \ _#
  • /h₁/, /h₂/, /h₃/ > /e/ /a/ /o/ \ V_V, _C
ενεν énen 'name' < PIE *h₁nómn̥-,
  • CRHC > CRēC, CRāC, CrōC [1-2-3]
  • laryngeal colouring and compensatory lengthening of following vowels
/h₁e/, /h₂e/, /h₃e/ > /ē/, /ā/, /ō/
ααντηρηι ā́ntērēi 'ancestors' < PIE *h₂en-tḗr-
ωφώχωι ōphṓχōi 'of a serpent' < PIE *h₃egʷ-

Plosives

  • /p/ > /p/
  • /t/ > /t/
  • /ty/ > /θ/
χιρέθωι khiréthōi 'harder' < *χrétʲōi < PIE *kret-yōs, cf. χιρτυς khírtus 'hard'
  • /k/ > /k/, /χ/ \#_R,
  • "/b/" > /b/
  • /d/ > /d/,
  • /g/ > /g/
  • /bʱ/ > /b/, /ph/ \ R_, V_V, #_R
φρατηρ phrā́tēr 'brother' < PIE *bʰréh₂tēr
  • /dh/ > /d/, /th/ \ R_, V_V,
  • /dhy/ > /θ/ \ #_V
θαν thān 'thought' < PIE *dhyeh₂-mn̥-
  • /gʱ/ > /g/, /χ/ \ R_, V_V, /khy/ > /čč/ > /θ/ \ #_
  • /gʷ/ > /b/
βορι bori 'hill' < PIE *gʷor̥, o-grade of *gʷr̩H—,
  • /gʷ/ > /T/ \ _e
δην dēn 'woman' < PIE *gʷḗn
δηφινωι dḗphinōi 'of the living' < PIE *gʷeyh₃w-n̩-, but βιφος bíphos 'alive' < PIE *gʷih₃wos
θεμμι thémmi 'I strike' < PIE *gʷhen-mi, but βονος bonos 'argument' < *gʷhón-os
  • /gʱʷ/ > /pʰ/ \ R_, V_V, /b/
ωφες ōphes 'serpent' < PIE *h₃egʰʷis
  • /kʷ/ > /p/
πις pis 'who' < PIE *kʷis
  • /kʰʷ/ > /pʰ/ \ R_, V_V, /p/
  • /ḱ/ > /θ/ \ _e
θεμμι thémmi 'I say, I talk' < PIE *ḱéh₁mi

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
  • barytonesis, jump of accent.
θυγον thúgon vs. PIE *yugóm

Resonants

  • /r̩/ > /ri/ \ _[s ʃ θ], _#; e.g. Ideph. riθos < *ŕ̥θos (<*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

Vowels

  • /o/ > /u/ \ R_+labial ; e.g. νυιψ nyps 'night' < *nūps < *núpts < PIE *nókʷt-s
  • /o/ > /a/
  • /ō/ > /o/ ϝηχωρ vḗχōr 'sister' < *vḗχōr < *χwéχōr < PIE *swésōr
  • /u/ > /u/
  • /ū/ > /y/
  • /e/ > /je/ \R_C dial. ϝιήθηρ vjḗthēr < *χwéθtēr < dial. PIE *swéstēr by analogy with *bʰréh₂tēr
  • /e/ > /e/
  • /i/ > /i/
  • /i/ > /e/ \w_C;
  • /ī/ > /i/ viros < *vī́ros < *wíHros < PIE *wiHrós

leykʷ-

V.1

Present stem, active
1ary indic.
1 sg. nemmi < *linékʷmi
2 sg. nepthi < *linékʷsi
3 sg. nepti < *linékʷti
1 pl. pimos < *inpimós < *linkʷm̥ós
2 pl. nipte < *nipte < iṇpté < *linkʷté
3 pl. penti
participle ponts, pintes, ponthia, pinthās

V.2

Present stem, active
1ary indic.
1 sg. linemmi < *linékʷmi
2 sg. linepthi < *linékʷsi
3 sg. linepti < *linékʷti
1 pl. limpimos < *inpimós < *linkʷm̥ós
2 pl. linipte < *nipte < iṇpté < *linkʷté
3 pl. limpenti
participle ponts, pintes, ponthia, pinthās

Modern Ideph. ?

/θ/ > /s/ / #_, /z/ \ V_V

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