Template talk:Bar languages/Harākti

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Umrētet

Interest, care to elaborate how it goes from Umbreao to Umretet? Zelos.png Emperor Zelos 08:10, 17 April 2014 (CEST)

It'simple: Harākti doesn't allow for complex consonant clusters, so -mbr- had to be shortened to either -mr- or (ū)br- (if the nasal is dropped, the preceding vowel is lenghtened, usually), and the final part -ea(o) gets shortened to -ē, with the final -o ignored since such word-final sounds are often assumed to be some sort of a suffix. That gives umrēti or ūbrēti, with -ti being a suffix indicating languages, which becomes -(t)et in locative singular, so umrētet literally means 'in Umbrean'. ^_^ And I just realised that umrēti sounds exactly the same as Slovene umréti, which means 'to die'. Maybe I should use ūbrēti instead. Ø_Ø Ashucky (talk) 14:05, 17 April 2014 (CEST)

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