Brusing/Middle

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Brusing (Brūsingisca taca /brùːsɪŋgiska tàka/) is an Oselo-Bruso-Thedic language that emphasizes the non-Germanic aspects of the subbranch. It is inspired by Sanskrit and Old English.


Todo

assign tone

  • 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

wèlg 'wolf (m.)' (< *wḷkʷós)
Singular Plural
Nominative wèlg wèlge
Genitive wèlges wèlgan
Dative wèlge wèlgum
Accusative wèlg wèlgu
Ablative wèlget wèlges
Locative wèlge wèlgus


þánd 'child (n.)' (< *ǵénh₁tom)
Singular Plural
Nominative þánd þánda
Genitive þándes þándan
Dative þánde þándum
Accusative þánd þánda
Ablative þándet þándes
Locative þánde þándus

eh2-stems

árda 'earth (f.)' (< *h₁érteh₂)
Singular Plural
Nominative árda árdas
Genitive árdas árdan
Dative árde árdum
Accusative árda árdu
Ablative árde árdes
Locative árde árdus

i- and u-stems

The i-stems and u-stems merge in Classical Brusing.

bǣd 'tyrant, despot (m.)' (< *potis)
Singular Plural
Nominative bǣd bǣdus
Genitive bǣdus bǣdian
Dative bǣdu bǣdum
Accusative bǣd bǣdi
Ablative bǣdus bǣdis
Locative bǣdu bǣdis


glōst 'load (f.)' (< **kleh₂-s-tus)
Singular Plural
Nominative glōst glōstus
Genitive glōstus glōstian
Dative glōstu glōstum
Accusative glōst glōsti
Ablative glōstus glōstis
Locative glōstu glōstis

ih2-stems

wǣsti (POBT wostiyā) = clothing

n-stems

nāma 'name (n.)' (< POBT *nomṇ)
Singular Plural
Nominative nāma nāmana
Genitive nǣmanas nāmanan
Dative nǣmunu nāmunum
Accusative nāma nāmana
Ablative nǣmanas nāmanis
Locative nǣmane nāmanis

Likewise: wāta 'water', ðarta 'heart'

Athematics

perc 'city (f.)' (< *bʰṛgʰs)
Singular Plural
Nominative perc percas
Genitive percas percan
Dative percu percum
Accusative perca percas
Ablative percas percis
Locative perce percus

Pronouns

ec, dū, is/ia/id, wīs, jūs, ūi/ias/īa

Adjectives

Adjectives decline for number, gender, case and definiteness.

The following is the inflection of cāt 'good', from PIE *gʰōdʰ-os. When a box shows three forms, the forms are in the order masculine, feminine, neuter.

cāt 'good'; indefinite declension
Singular Plural
Nominative cāt
cāta
cāt
cāte
cātas
cāta
Genitive cātes
cātas
cātes
cātan
Dative cāte cātum
Accusative cāt
cāta
cāt
cātu
cātu
cāta
Ablative cātet
cāte
cātet
cātes
Locative cāte cātus

cāt 'good'; definite declension
Singular Plural
Nominative cāta cātunus
cātunus
cātana
Genitive cātanas cātanan
Dative cātunu cātunum
Accusative cātana
cātana
cāta
cātani
cātani
cātana
Ablative cātanas cātanis
Locative cātane cātanis


Verbs

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

Verbs are negated by prefixing na-. (TODO: sandhi)

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: spaðem, spaðas, spaðad, spaðum, spaðad, spaðand
  • Imperfect: aspað, aspaðast, aspað, aspaðum, aspaðad, aspaðer
  • Aorist: aspās, aspāst, aspās, aspassum, aspassad, aspasser
  • Perfect: spāð, spāst, spāð, spāðum, spāðad, spāðer
  • Future: spassem, spassas, spassad, spassum, spassad, spassand
  • Imperative: -, spað, spastu, spaðum, spaðad, spaðandu

eh2-verbs

yé-verbs

éye-verbs

tārajan 'to pain, to grieve'

  • Present: tārajem, tārajas, tārajad, tārajum, tārajad, tārajand

Syntax

Vocabulary

Derivation