On Krwŋese
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 6:15 pm
It's an odd thing, I realize, but I was looking over the Krwŋese cognates in the Uyseʔ lexicon, and I thought I'd make a list of all the cognate sounds in the set. For example:
Fwnoy/Funuy/"sacrifice to ancestors"
Understandable enough; so /u/ in Uyseʔ is /w/ in Krwŋese after a consonant, or /o/ before a /j/. Next:
Krwŋ/Krun/?
Okay, so /u/ is /w/ here, but where did the /ŋ/ come from? Was it there all along, and altered by position in fwnoy, so "sacrifice" would actually be **fwŋ? And then:
Nyekyɔu/Nyekyau/"(son) of-shrine"
Actually, to be fair, Zompist did comment on the vowel shift in the Historical Atlas. I think I'd better look back and see if there are any more words...
What I'm getting at here is: was there ever a Proto-Uyseʔ set up? Or are the sound changes just likely cognates from relatives in the area? I'm curious in part because I've been doing some (probably illegal) work on Siadese, and even there one finds some irregularities (unless they're just more complex changes that I've missed; equally possible).
Fwnoy/Funuy/"sacrifice to ancestors"
Understandable enough; so /u/ in Uyseʔ is /w/ in Krwŋese after a consonant, or /o/ before a /j/. Next:
Krwŋ/Krun/?
Okay, so /u/ is /w/ here, but where did the /ŋ/ come from? Was it there all along, and altered by position in fwnoy, so "sacrifice" would actually be **fwŋ? And then:
Nyekyɔu/Nyekyau/"(son) of-shrine"
Actually, to be fair, Zompist did comment on the vowel shift in the Historical Atlas. I think I'd better look back and see if there are any more words...
What I'm getting at here is: was there ever a Proto-Uyseʔ set up? Or are the sound changes just likely cognates from relatives in the area? I'm curious in part because I've been doing some (probably illegal) work on Siadese, and even there one finds some irregularities (unless they're just more complex changes that I've missed; equally possible).