Proto-Coelo-Caric: Difference between revisions

The '''Proto-Coelo-Caric language''' is the reconstructed ancestor of the Coelo-Caric languages, Silōs and Carichendan. It would have descended from the Proto-Sinos-Koelic language.

This stage began with the separation of a distinct speech, perhaps while still forming part of the Proto-Indo-European dialect continuum. It contained many innovations that were shared with other Indo-European branches to various degrees, probably through areal contacts, and mutual intelligibility with other dialects would have remained for some time. It was nevertheless on its own path, whether dialect or language.

|'''Merging of PCC */x/, */g/, */č/''' into a new consonant, */ǯ/ [d͡ʒ] — *ča čenta "home world" > *ǯaǯenta > ''zazelta'' "Earth, the world"; *uxa "blue" > *uǯa > ''zva''

|'''Appearance of the closed vowel''', phonemicising the reduced, nasal [[allophone]] */ɵ/ of */ɔ/ between nasal consonants — *ð-a-ɔ-m-sats "in the perspective of going towards" > *ðanɵmsats > ''falusats'' "hello (polite)"

====Pre-Proto-Germanic (Pre-PGmc)====

This stage began with the separation of a distinct speech, perhaps while still forming part of the Proto-Indo-European dialect continuum. It contained many innovations that were shared with other Indo-European branches to various degrees, probably through areal contacts, and mutual intelligibility with other dialects would have remained for some time. It was nevertheless on its own path, whether dialect or language.

|'''Merging of non-high back vowels''', */ɔ/, */a/ > */a/ — *nɔam "we (inclusive or dual)" > *naam > ''nami'' "we"

|'''Coelo-Caric labial change''': Merger of the labial stops.

* */b/, */m/ > */m/ — *ba "four" > ''mala''; *čtɔb tjɔya "dull sun(light)" > *čtamtjaya > ''cheundala'' "yellow"; *ye mee "from" > *ye-mej > ''yamai''; *hamen "five" > *hamex > ''khamish''

* */by/ — *ye byi sen "nine, (lit.) lacking one from ten" > *ye-byi > ''yabi'' "nine"

* */bj/ — *bene "large" > *bjene > ''byane'' "big"

|'''Reduction of open diphthongs: */ae/ > */a/; */ea/ > */a/''' — *teɸnɔe "speech, language" > *teɸnae > *teɸna > ''dyela'' "to say"; *leɔ "that" > *lea > la "that"; *leɔlen "those" > *lealen > ''lálen''

|'''Word-final long vowels are lengthened''' to "overlong" vowels — {{PIE|*séh₁mō}} "seeds" > {{PIE|*séh₁mô}} > {{PIE|*sēmô}}

*A single example exists where */b/ was preserved even without palatalization — *atta}} "dad" > {{PIE|*attô}}}}

====Early Proto-Germanic====

|'''Loss of word-final non-high short vowels''' {{PIE|/e/}}, {{PIE|/a/}}, {{PIE|/o/}} — {{PIE|*wóyde}} "(s)he knows" > {{PIE|*wóyd}} > {{PIE|*wait}}

*A {{PIE|/j/}} or {{PIE|/w/}} preceding the vowel is also lost — {{PIE|*tósyo}} "of that" > {{PIE|*tós}} > {{PIE|*þas}}

*When the lost vowel was accented, the accent shifted to the preceding syllable — {{nowrap|{{PIE|*n̥smé}} "us" > {{PIE|*n̥swé}} > {{PIE|*unswé}} > {{PIE|*úns}} > {{PIE|*uns}}}} (not {{PIE|*unz}}, showing that loss occurred before Verner's law)

|'''[[Grimm's law]]''': Chain shift of the three series of plosives. Note that voiced plosives had already been devoiced before a voiceless obstruent prior to this stage. Labiovelars were delabialised before {{PIE|/t/}}.

*Voiceless plosives become fricatives, unless preceded by another obstruent. In a sequence of two voiceless obstruents, the second obstruent remains a plosive.

**{{PIE|/p/}} > {{PIE|/ɸ/}} ({{PIE|f}}) — {{nowrap|{{PIE|*ph₂tḗr}} "father" > {{PIE|*fəþḗr}} > {{PIE|*fadēr}}}}

**{{PIE|/t/}} > {{PIE|/θ/}} ({{PIE|þ}}) — {{nowrap|{{PIE|*tód}} "that" > {{PIE|*þód}} > {{PIE|*þat}}}}

|'''[[Verner's law]]''': voiceless fricatives are voiced, allophonically at first, when preceded by an unaccented syllable:

 

 

|'''{{PIE|/ɣʷ/}} > {{PIE|/w/}}''', sometimes {{PIE|/ɣ/}} — {{PIE|*snóygʷʰos}} "snow" > {{PIE|*snaygʷaz}} > {{PIE|*snaiwaz}}; {{PIE|*kʷekʷléh₂}} "wheels (collective)" > {{PIE|*hʷegʷlā}} > {{PIE|*hʷewlā}} > {{PIE|*hweulō}}

|'''[[i-mutation]]''': {{PIE|/e/}} > {{PIE|/i/}} when followed by {{PIE|/i/}} or {{PIE|/j/}} in the same or next syllable — {{PIE|*bʰéreti}} "(s)he is carrying" > {{PIE|*beridi}} > {{PIE|*biridi}}; {{PIE|*médʰyos}} "middle" > {{PIE|*medyaz}} > {{PIE|*midjaz}}; {{PIE|*néwios}} "new" > {{PIE|*newyaz}} > {{PIE|*niwjaz}}

*This eliminates the remaining {{PIE|/ei/}}, changing it to {{PIE|/iː/}} — {{PIE|*deywós}} "god" > {{PIE|*teywaz}} > {{PIE|*Tīwaz}} "[[Týr]]"; {{PIE|*tréyes}} "three" > {{PIE|*þreiz}} > {{PIE|*þrīz}}

|'''{{PIE|/e/}} > {{PIE|/i/}}''' when followed by a syllable-final nasal — {{PIE|*en}} "in" > {{PIE|*in}}; {{PIE|*séngʷʰeti}} "(s)he chants" > {{PIE|*sengʷidi}} > {{PIE|*singwidi}} "(s)he sings"

*This process creates a new {{PIE|/ɑː/}} from earlier {{PIE|/ɑjɑ/}} - {{PIE|*steh₂-}} "to stand" > (with suffix added) {{PIE|*sth₂yónti}} "they stand" > {{PIE|*stayanþi}} > {{PIE|*stānþi}}

|'''{{PIE|/n/}} is lost before {{PIE|/x/}}''', causing [[compensatory lengthening]] and nasalisation of the preceding vowel — {{PIE|*ḱónketi}} "(s)he hangs" > {{PIE|*hanhidi}} (phonetically {{PIE|[ˈxɑ̃ːxiði]}})