Brusing/Middle

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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.

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

o-stems

þand = child (as in one's offspring) (from POBT kénðom; from PIE ǵénh₁tom)

eh2-stems

i-stems

u-stems

n-stems

Athematics

Adjectives

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.

Athematics

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, -,

eh2-verbs

yé-verbs

éye-verbs

dārayan 'to pain, to grieve'

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

Syntax

Vocabulary

Derivation