Brusing/Middle

Brusing (Brūsingiska taga) is an Oselo-Bruso-Thedic language that emphasizes the non-Germanic aspects of the subbranch. It is inspired by Sanskrit and Old English.

Brusing was a classical language in Lõis's Europe.

Todo

• tāla (f) = sequence, row; a musical term

a e i u ā ē ī ū ei eu ai au āi ēi āu ēu ->
a e i u ā ē ī ū ūi ē āe ōe āe ūi ōe ē
i want ū to become ȳ
u-umlaut:
o œ y u ō œ­̄ ȳ ū ū œ̄ ōe ūi ōe ū ūi œ̄
suHnus -> *sūnus -> sūn "son"

• h₂elut "beer" -> *aluð -> olu
  

that sounds like estonian õlu
CVCuC words get the u if the V is short

Proto-Brusing:

Avis ðersaiwa

Avis, dat welnān natāra, spāða ðersuos: ainan kerrun wāðnan teuðanda, ainanwa mahsalān kerriðān, ainanwa ðumana sneuman paranda.

Grammar

Nouns

Brusing nouns had 6 cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and locative.

o-stems

welk 'wolf (m.)' (< *wḷkʷós)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	welk	welke
Genitive	welkes	welkan
Dative	welke	welkam
Accusative	welk	wœlku
Ablative	welket	welke
Locative	welke	welkœs

þand 'child (n.)' (< *ǵénh₁tom)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	þand	þanda
Genitive	þandes	þandan
Dative	þande	þandam
Accusative	þand	þanda
Ablative	þandet	þande
Locative	þande	þandœs

Verbs

Unlike in Thedic languages, all verbs use the athematic endings in Brusing.

Verbs are negated by prefixing na-.

Verbs had five tenses: present, imperfect, aorist, perfect, and future.

The irrealis tenses are: subjunctive, optative, imperfective imperative, and aorist imperative.

Brusing also had a passive voice, inherited from PIE.

e/o-thematics

spaðan 'to see'

• Present: spaðam, spaðas, spaðad, spaðām, spaðad, spaðān
• Imperfect: aspað, aspaðas, aspað, aspaðām, aspaðad, aspað
• Aorist: aspās, aspāst, aspās, aspassām, aspassad, aspassēr
• Perfect: spāð, spāst, spāð, spāðām, spāðad, spāðēr
• Future: spassam, spassas, spassad, spassām, spassad, spassān
• Subjunctive: spaðā, spaðēs, spaðēd, spaðām, spaðād, spaðān
• Optative: spassāem, spassāes, spassāed, spassāeām, spassāead, spassāeān
• Imperative: -, spað, -, spaðām, spaðad, -,

éye-verbs

dārayan 'to pain, to grieve'

• Present: dārayam, dārayas, dārayad, dārayām, dārayad, dārayān