Re: Gweinic Description: Phonology and Roots (Corrections)

"Anthony M. Miles" wrote:
> > labhn- 'Create' is properly only used if one is making something > > out
>of nothing.
>
>As in divine creation?  Kassí theologians have coined a word _gliglí_
>meaning "to create out of nothing", from reduplication of _glí_, "to
>create, make".  Reduplication is not normally a productive process, >in
>fact, by Classic Watakassí, it was practically extinct.
Yes. The CL word for Creator is labhandrakh, animate nominative-vocative
singular (a somewhat irregular form). GW [l[ab<h>.n<syl>.r[<syl>.k<h>e]
becomes [l[ab<h>.n[.r[<syl>.k<h>e]
because the first of two adjacent syllabics becomes a consonant.
[l[ab<h>.n[.r<syl>.k<h>e] becomes [l[ab<h>.n[.r[a.k<h>e] because [r[<syl>]
becomes ra between two consonants. [l[ab<h>.n[.r[a.k<h>e] becomes
[l[ab<h>.n[d[.ra.k<h>e] because an EL cluster of nasal+liquid is broken by a
voice consonant homorganic with the nasal (thus always
b or d[). [l[ab<h>.n[d[.ra.k<h>e] becomes [l[ab<h>.an.dra.k<h>e]
by insertion of an epenthetic [a] and regularization of the
syllabification. EL does not allow two consonants to close a
syllable unless the first one is a glide, as in [g<w>ajn.a.lej].
> > I am not sure whether a syllable containing a syllabic consonant is
> > open or closed.
>
>I'd call it open if there's no non-syllabic consonant following it, >like
>the last syllable of the English "battle" or "water" in those >dialects
>that use a syllabic r.
Well, my dialect doesn't, since I say [b&t@l] and [wad@r] (perhaps
because 'battle' is more of a literary term].
See above for an example of adjacent syllabics. Also,
[ro:t.r<syl>.r<syl>.k<h>e]> [ro:t.r:<syl>.k<h>e]>[ro:t.ra:.k<h>e]
> > hiyik-go
> > hiyak-leap
> > huyuk-crawl
> > heiek-flow
>
>Hmm, reminds me of the Semitic triconsonantal roots.  Is that where >you go
>the idea?
Yes. Glellnic, the ancestor of Gweinic, was the aboriginal language
from which all other languages sprung, and therefore I thought that
hints of the potential development of many different systems should
be in it. Besides, I've always thought that vowel ablaut and and
a triconsonantal system could have a common ancestor (whether they
did historically is a different matter). The [hVjVk] family is meant to be
onomatopoeic. hiyik suggests a steady pace, hiyak an abrupt change, huuyuuk
something sliding through the grass ( a root with [u(:)] in it is almost
always negative), heiek a graceful motion.
graceful
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