Flei

Flei
Created by	Inthar
Setting	Verse:Méich Bhaonnáiqh
Language family	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). It's a fairly typical IE language.

πăraqliτ = advocate, attorney, etc.

askolå, asτråτeghyå, ukhlusin

borrow -ium/-ion as -in: opsarion > uπsărin 'culinary fish', -in is also a diminutive which is used a lot

sP sT sq -> asP asT asq (skhole > askola)

change o to a? bodhi > badhi

Phonology

Consonants: same as Aramaic but no pharyngeals and no ts and added emphatic p; emphatic stops written π τ (capital Ʈ) q.

v = bh

Coronal stops/spirants are dental.

Native words only use bgdkpt stops which lenite like in Aramaic; φ > h

Vowels: i e a å o u ă /i e æ A o u ä/

Ultimate stress

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns have 3 genders (m, f, n), 2 numbers (sg, pl) and 3 cases (nom, gen, prep/dat). The dative is used for indirect objects, and sometimes for prepositional objects. When a preposition can use both the dative and the accusative, the dative denotes being at the location and the nominative denotes motion towards the location.

turn pl acc to pl nom (happened to Irish definite articles)

The pl gen of nouns declines as an -o/-ā adjective.

-o stems

maph 'boy' (< *makkʷos)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	maph	mappun
Genitive	mappi	mappåkh
Dative	mappu	mappåbh (analogy with new pl. gen.)

dun 'fort' (< *dūnom)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dun	dunå
Genitive	duni	dunåkh
Dative	dunu	dunåbh

-yo stems

ári 'lion' (random semantic shift from *aryos 'noble one')

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ári	aryun
Genitive	aryi	aryåkh
Dative	aryu	aryåbh

-ā stems

breghå 'power, might' (< *brigā)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	breghå	breghån
Genitive	breghåh	breghåkh
Dative	breghe	breghåbh

-i stems

Old m/f:

knåm 'bone' (< *knāmis)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	knåm	knåmin
Genitive	knåmeh	knåmekh
Dative	knåmi	knåmebh

Old neuters:

mor (f.) 'sea' (< *mori)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mor	moryå
Genitive	moreh	morekh
Dative	mori	morebh

-ī stems

bledhăni (f.) 'year' (< *blēdanī)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bledhăni	bledhănin
Genitive	bledhanyåh	bledhănekh
Dative	bledhanye	bledhănebh

-u-stems

merge with o-stems at the cost of making gen sg more unpredictable (-i or -o)

m/f:

dăréseτ 'door' (< *dworestus)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dăréseτ	dăresτun
Genitive	dăresτoh	dăresτåkh
Dative	dăresτu	dăresτåbh

neuter:

eydh 'fire' (< *aidu)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	eydh	eydhå
Genitive	eydhoh	eydhåkh
Dative	eydhu	eydhåbh

Consonant stems

min (f.) 'month' (< *mīns)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	min	minån
Genitive	mínes	minåkh
Dative	minsi	minåbh

kahăru (f.) 'sheep' (< *kaφerūxs)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kahăru	kahăråkhån
Genitive	kahăråkh	kahăråkhåkh
Dative	kahăråkh	kahăråkhåbh

Adjectives

similar to nouns, but gen pl uses the original PCel ending

-o/-ā stems

bån 'white' (< *bānos)

	sg. m.	sg. f.	sg. n.	pl. m.	pl. f.	pl. n.
Nominative	bån	bånå	bån	bånun	bånån	bånå
Genitive	båni	bånåh	båni	bån
Dative	bånu	båne	bånu	bånåbh

-yo/-yā stems

bódhi 'yellow' (< *bodyos)

	sg. m.	sg. f.	sg. n.	pl. m.	pl. f.	pl. n.
Nominative	bódhi	bodhyå	bódhi	bodhyun	bodhyån	bodhyå
Genitive	bodhyi	bodhyåh	bodhyi	bódhi
Dative	bodhyu	bodhye	bodhyu	bodhyåbh

-i/-ī stems

math 'good' (< *matis)

	sg. m.	sg. f.	sg. n.	pl. m.	pl. f.	pl. n.
Nominative	math	măthi	math	măthin
Genitive	mătheh	mathyåh	mătheh	mathi
Dative	măthi	mathye	măthi	măthebh

-u stems

dobh 'black' (< *dubus)

	sg. m.	sg. f.	sg. n.	pl. m.	pl. f.	pl. n.
Nominative	dobh			dobhun
Genitive	dobhoh			dobh
Dative	dobhu			dobhåbh

Verbs

similar to Irish tenses with no compound tenses

• present: mārām, mārāsi, mārāti, mārāmu, mārāte, mārānti, mārātor -> måri, måråh, mårå, mårån, måråth, mårant/måratt, måråthor -> måri mi, måråh tu, måre/måri, mårån nih, måråth ših, måratt eh, mårăthor
• preterite
• future
• imperfect
• conditional
• imperative

Syntax

Similar to Contiental Celtic, with some JBA features