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?