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Re: Cein

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Thursday, May 31, 2001, 12:42
Keith wrote:

> > Well, I had big problems with _hiisie_. [h] -> 0, leaving _iisie_. > > Then the vowels shortens -> _isie_. Then the vowels are supposed > > to drop, but I didn't really know what to do with [ie].
> Well if you want to follow British > Welsh what happens is > /-ie/ >> /-ije/ >> /-ID/ <-ydd>
Oh! {-ydd}! I like that! That would be spelt _idd_ in Cein. So _hiisie_ would become _isidd_ [I'sID]. Nice. What would /-ea/ become? That's a common adjective ending in Quenya.
> > Well, I used _limbe_ 'many' and let that get a more general > > augmentative meaning. I'm not sure if that should be _llif_ > > instead. The rules are "nasal + voiced stop -> nasal", > > "medial [m] -> [v]" and "drop final vowel". I'm not sure in > > which order to apply them.
> IMHO /limbe/ >> /llimm/ double /m/ resists lenition. Modern Welsh always > writes a single <m> but the sound was double (all single /m/ having > gone to /v/ <f>. Possibly later /mm/ >> /m/ when final, I think this has > happened in Welsh, but not in Cornish where /mm/ sometimes went to /bm/ > or even /bb/. N.B. Mod. W. <p t c> are really /pp tt kk/.
Aha. I skipped the double letters because it looked odd when the stress was on the final syllable: <annon>. Perhaps I should write it as <mm> after all.
> > No, {ch} is the mutated form of {c}, which I decided should > > occur after the definite article. I'm still not sure if there > > should be mutation or not after _i_ (sg) and _ir_ (pl).
> /i/ might be expected to cause lenition (soft mutation).
Yes, I'll go with that.
> /ir/ might > just possibly cause germination leading to a spirant mutation
Very good idea too.
> and maybe doubling of /l r m n/.
What do you mean by "doubling of /l r m n/? That it should be geminated in the beginning of a word following _ir_? _melf_ 'love' >> _i mmelf_ 'the loves' (to take an odd ex.)
> The original /r/ of ir would be lost except perhaps before vowels.
Good idea. Initial vowels are very common in Cein. ||| daniel -- <> Mad llamgalf! <> daniel.andreasson@telia.com <> <> Ond llam! <> www.geocities.com/conlangus <>