Verse:Irta/Icelandic Gaelic
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Gaelic + Inuit + Hivantish + English
Greekify Irish slender consonants
Inuit words subject to Irishy sound changes
word order is more flexible than in Old Irish
Capital: Daomaist, from Hivantish "Dymuwistu" <- dhuHmo-h2westu
Preserves Old Irish /θ ð/
"What if Old Irish became a Balkan sprachbund language, losing infinitives etc."
Morphology
Nouns
Preserves a lot of case inflection in suffixed indefinite articles, via a suffixed áirithe "certain"
Possessive suffices from OIr emphatic clitics? "his" is (lenition)--san
- nom sg. ech áirithe > echar 'a horse'
- gen sg. eich áirithi > eichri
- prep sg. euch áirithiu > echru
- acc sg. euch n-áirithe > echna
- nom pl eich áirithi > eichri
- gen pl ech n-áirithe > echna
- prep pl echaibh
- acc pl echu h-áirithi > echuhar
Definite nouns get the OIr definite article mutations (with no preposed article) + -a(i)s:
- nom sg t-echsa 'the horse'
- gen sg eichse
- prep sg echsa
- acc sg n-echsa
- voc sg a eich!
- nom pl eichse
- gen pl n-echsa
- prep pl echaibhse
- acc pl h-echus
- voc pl a echu!
o-stem masc.
- nom sg. echar
- gen sg. eichri
- prep sg. echru
- acc sg. echna
- nom pl eichri
- gen pl echna
- prep pl echaibh
- acc pl echur
- nom sg t-echsa
- gen sg eichse
- prep sg echsa
- acc sg n-echsa
- voc sg a eich!
- nom pl eichse
- gen pl n-echsa
- prep pl echaibhse
- acc pl h-echus
- voc pl a echu!
ā-stem fem.
- nom sg túathar
- gen sg túaither
- prep sg túaithri
- acc sg túathnai
- nom pl túathár
- gen pl túathna
- dat pl túathaib
- acc pl túathár
Verbs
Preserves object prefixes but simplifies them; only conjunct and prototonic forms are used for most verbs
- no-m-(L), no-t-(L), n-a-(N), no-s-(N), no-n-, no-bh-, no-s(N)- (no- can be replaced with another preverb e.g. ní-)
Get object incorportaion from focused objects?