Knench/Old
< Knench
Stress shifts away from final by one foot; this stress shift happens at the same time as the Welsh penultimate stress shift and leads to umlaut downstream
Phonology
Knench New Quantity System
Gemination is lost at this point, with the information transferring to the preceding vowel
Grammar
Pronouns
- 1sg: ni(ch) (indep); -i (possessive or prep.); -ni (direct object)
- 2sg.m: atho (indep); -cho (oblique)
- 2sg.f: ethy (indep); -chy (oblique)
- 3sg.m: ḧi (indep); -ů (oblique)
- 3sg.f: ḧi (indep); -oho (oblique)
- 1pl: nanu (indep); -nu (oblique)
- 2pl: ethym (indep); -chym (oblique)
- 3pl: hym (?) (indep); -em (?) (oblique)