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My latest chamlang, in the style of Dhannuá being "plausibly Celtic" at first glance, this shall be "plausibly at first glance" a mystical love child of Proto-Greek and Proto-Albanian, avec dashes of ''liquamen''. It is named after the Boeotian word for sweet-voiced, ''ἴδηφιν''.
My latest chamlang, in the style of Dhannuá being "plausibly Celtic" at first glance, this shall be "plausibly at first glance" a mystical love child of Proto-Greek and Proto-Albanian, avec dashes of ''liquamen''. It is named after the Boeotian word for sweet-voiced, ''ἴδηφιν''.  
 
And now, I've come up with a proper glottonym, woo!
 
(ϜΕΠΟΣ) ΧΙΡΑΘΩΝ


==A Tentative Chronological Order of Sound Change==
==A Tentative Chronological Order of Sound Change==
===The elimination of the laryngeals and their effect on nearby vowels===
===The elimination of the laryngeals and their effect on nearby vowels===
''Hoffman's Law'' (i)
====Hoffman's Law====


Not unlike Cowgill's law in the Germanic branch, there appears to be occasional consonant reflexes of certain laryngeals in Dephinian.  
Not unlike Cowgill's law in the Germanic branch, there appears to be occasional consonant reflexes of certain laryngeals in Dephinian.  
The sound change, called Hoffman's law (sometimes Hoffman-Cowgill) after Maribel Hoffman's discovery (Hoffman 1988: 201 n. 2) that either Cowgill's law or something very similar to it operates to a certain extent in some Dephinian words albeit with the modification that the reflex is voiced, i.e. *g and not *k (as in Germanic).  
The sound change, called Hoffman's law (sometimes Hoffman-Cowgill) after Maribel Hoffman's discovery (Hoffman 1988: 201 n. 2) that either Cowgill's law or something very similar to it operates to a certain extent in some Dephinian words albeit with the modification that the reflex is *g and not *k (as in Germanic).
 
: PIE *gʷih₃wós > *gʷigwós > *gʷígʷus > Deph βιφος /ˈbipʰos/ (with analogical lowering of the nominative ending vowel, cf. μιρτος /ˈmirtos/ ‘dead’)
 
This sound change must predate the change of the labiovelars to labials, as there is no attested **βίυς /biːus/ which would be the regular outcome of a form **bíh₃wós with intervocalic w- and laryngeal deletion.
 
====Quinn's Law====
 
Quinn's law was first formulated by Nathanel Quinn to explain certain irregularities in the inherited lexicon. It states that /g/ before /h₂/ gave -gʰa- as a result of leftwards aspiration assimilation in the earliest stages of Dephinian. (Quinn 2009: 103 n. 1)
 
:PIE *dʰugh₂tḗr > *dugʰatḗr > *dugʰátēr > Deph δυχάτηρ /duˈχɑteːr/ ‘daughter’ instead of expected **δυγατηρ < **dhugátēr.


: PIE *gʷih₃wós > *gʷigwós > *gʷígʷos > Deph βιφος /ˈbipʰos/.
===Delabialization of m===
PIE *yugóm > *yugón


This sound change must predate the change of the labiovelars to labials, as there is no attested **βιυς /biːus/ which would be the regular outcome of a form **bíh₃wós with intervocalic w- and laryngeal deletion.
===Initial jod fortition===
{{ast}}yugón > *dyugon
===Loss of word-final stop consonants===


===Barytonesis===
{{ast}}dyugon > *dyúgon


===Merger of labiovelars into labials===
===Vocalisation of word-final /s/===
===Raising of /o/ to /u/ between resonants and labials===
PIE *nókʷt-s > *nópts > *núpts > *nū́ps > Deph νυιψ /nyps/ ‘night’
===Palatalisation===
===Debuccalisation of /s/===
===Depatalisation===
===Assimilation of /s/ to neighbouring stops===
==Chronologically unordered list of delicious sound changes==
===Misc. changes pilfered from Proto-Albanian and Proto-Greek===
===Misc. changes pilfered from Proto-Albanian and Proto-Greek===
:* /s/ > /χ/ \ V_V, _R /s/ > /θ/ \ _V, /χ/ \ -_k-, /θ/ \ -_d-, /ʃ/ \ [r u̯ k i̯]_V, /i̯/ \ V̄_#
:* /s/ > /χ/ \ V_V, _R /s/ > /θ/ \ _V, /χ/ \ -_k-, /θ/ \ -_d-, /ʃ/ \ [r u̯ k i̯]_V, /i̯/ \ V̄_#
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:* laryngeal colouring and compensatory lengthening of following vowels
:* laryngeal colouring and compensatory lengthening of following vowels
:: /h₁e/, /h₂e/, /h₃e/ > /ē/, /ā/, /ō/
:: /h₁e/, /h₂e/, /h₃e/ > /ē/, /ā/, /ō/
::: {{term|ααντηρηι}} ''ā́ntērēi'' 'ancestors' < PIE *''h₂en-tḗr-''
::: {{term|αντηρηι}} ''ā́ntērēi'' 'ancestors' < PIE *''h₂en-tḗr-''
::: {{term|ωφώχωι}} ''ōphṓχōi'' 'of a serpent' < PIE ''*h₃egʷ-''
::: {{term|ωφώχωι}} ''ōphṓχōi'' 'of a serpent' < PIE ''*h₃egʷ-''


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:::  {{term|χιρέθωι}} ''khiréthōi'' 'harder' < *''χrétʲōi'' < PIE ''*kret-yōs'', cf. {{term|χιρτυς}} ''khírtus'' 'hard'
:::  {{term|χιρέθωι}} ''khiréthōi'' 'harder' < *''χrétʲōi'' < PIE ''*kret-yōs'', cf. {{term|χιρτυς}} ''khírtus'' 'hard'
:* /k/ > /k/, /χ/ \#_R,
:* /k/ > /k/, /χ/ \#_R,
:* K > /χ/ \#_R
:* "/b/" > /b/
:* "/b/" > /b/
:* /d/ > /d/,
:* /d/ > /d/,
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:* /eu/ > /ū~eu/ {{term|ερεύθρος}}, {{term|ερύθρος}} ''ereúthros'', ''erū́thros'' < PIE ''*h₁reudh-ro-''
:* /eu/ > /ū~eu/ {{term|ερεύθρος}}, {{term|ερύθρος}} ''ereúthros'', ''erū́thros'' < PIE ''*h₁reudh-ro-''


==leykʷ-==
==examples==
==Loans==
* [[User:Chrysophylax/Substrate language|substrate language]]
: {{c|χαφταψ}} ''χaphtaps'' 'warlord', from '''xaphdáph''' of the same meaning.
: {{c|δαϝοτυς}} ''davotus'' 'priest of a particular god', from '''dáwátus''' 'lighter of the flame'
: {{c|φεθαχς}} ''phethax'' 'axe-bearer, bodyguard', from '''fexa''' 'axe'
: {{c|nωθη}} ''nōthē'' 'the Ocean', from '''nōthē''' of the same meaning.
: {{c|θηθυψ}} ''thēthups'' 'temple', from '''sēdhuf''' of the same meaning.
: {{c|ϝυχοτυς}} ''vuχotus'' 'orator', from '''wuhkotus''' 'who makes speech'.
: {{c|ϝυναχς}} ''vunax'' 'poet', from '''wuhnako''' 'he who has speech as a profession', from '''wuhko''' + infix '''-na-''' 'profession'
: {{c|νωναθηι}} ''nōnathēi'' 'fisherman' from '''nōnathē''' 'he who has the sea as a profession', from '''nōthē''' + infix '''-na-''' 'profession'
 
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