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==New vocabulary== | ==New vocabulary== | ||
===Oldest stage=== | ===Oldest stage (~2nd century BCE)=== | ||
*womų ‘cow’ < Tengos [ʋomɯn] 'cattle', transparently formed on **vom + plural suffix -Un, from unknown IE source *gʷṓm presumably | *womų ‘cow’ < Tengos [ʋomɯn] 'cattle', transparently formed on **vom + plural suffix -Un, from unknown IE source, ultimately loaned from a form deriving from PIE *gʷṓm presumably | ||
==Changes== | |||
===Internal developments in Eastern? Wemenį before split=== | |||
# *ę → *jə | |||
#: Breaking of ę the resulting diphthong had an unclear vowel quality , probably somewhere between *e and *ä. | |||
# tense → +voice | |||
#: p' t' tl' tʃ' k' ʔ: → b d d͡l dʒ g ɦ — the “tense” glottalic series is reinterpreted as having +voice. The system now contrasts: +aspiration vs. -aspiration, and +voice. | |||
# The -idä affix becomes used more and more in a purely affective sense rather than diminutive. | |||
#: E.g. '''*ïňïdä''' for ‘private family name’ | |||
===Archaic Stage (~400 BCE)=== | |||
# *ą → *ɔː / _# | |||
#: E.g. *närhą → närhɔː. This split creates a compl. distribution of *ɔː and *ą (final vs. non-final). | |||
=Name= | =Name= | ||