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I've heard both those theories(ie. the soy yo/estoy yo etc. and the analogy w/ hay), and IMHO I don't think they're exclusive, likely they both happened and reinforced each other in making -oy standard in those verb forms. What's important to note is that all the forms with -oy bear stress on the en...

I always knew that Spanish had dental consonants where English has alveolar, but I never thought it mattered until the other day when my professor said "you sound like a gringo, you need to move up the pronunciation of your alveolar consonants to the dental POA". Now whenever I speak Spanish I'm rea...

More a snychronic rule, but Hup the plain voiced stop series (as opposed to the plain voiceless and glottalized, which lacks phonemic voice) is pre-nasalized word initially and post -nasalized word-finally. Now, Hup also has a rule that it really likes syllables to be in the CVC format, so if we hav...

I'm probably not the only one here who loves the mobile accent of PIE, particularly saying all those fun paradigm names such as "acrostatic," "amphikinetic," "hysterodynamic" etc. Well, I admit that I wanted something of similar coolness for my own protolang (I'm sure many of you PIE scholars have n...

Adjectives and pronouns decline like each other, excluding the personal pronouns which decline according to their own, somewhat exceptional paradigm. The shared declension of adjectives and pronouns is split into two paradigms, referred to as strong and weak. The are somewhat similar in function to ...

Accidentally double posted whoops :p Move along

aderu- to weave, spin
adesov- verbal noun of aderu, i.e. "stuff that is woven, fabric, cloth"
adewek- to weave + substantive suffix, same meaning

Next word: banana (or any funny-sounding yellow fruit in your conworld)

Now onto nouns: nouns, as previously stated, decline to both case and number and have an inherent gender. It seems that at the era of PVA unity declensions perfectly matched to the gender, though when a derivational suffix was added to a nominal root, the gender of the noun was determined by the gen...

Good point. I'll change the original post and when I get to pronouns I'll be sure to add a distinct feminine form of the 3rd prsn singular.

Proto Vauqun-Adzovъd is a PIE-equivalent in as-of-yet-unnamed-conworld (I'm not exactly big on conworlding, if someone wants to suggest a name I'd be open to considering it). Typological Shiznit PVA is a fusional language generally featuring nom-acc morphosyntactic alignment, with the exception of m...