Flei

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Flei
Created byInthar
SettingVerse:Méich Bhaonnáiqh
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))

-å nouns (-(y)ā)

  • brigā -> בּרגא băreghå
  • brigam -> brigę -> בּרגי băreghi
  • brigāms -> בּרגן băreghån (looks like fem pl indef)
  • brigās -> בּרגהּ băreghåh (looks like 3sg.f suffix)
  • Singular genitive is replaced with brigākos -> בּרגך băreghåkh (looks like 2sg.m suffix)
  • brigai -> בּרגי băreghe (m pl const)

-e nouns

-i nouns

-o nouns

Consonant stems

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