On A Genetic Connection Between Skourene and Wedei
Re: On A Genetic Connection Between Skourene and Wedei
I did some comparison of Almean languages a while ago, too, but never really found any good evidence. Here's some other possible cognates though:
Wede:i <na:i> 'bird' and OS <nals> 'fly, bird'
Wede:i <tok> 'blue' and OS <toş> 'blue'
Wede:i <mai> 'wheat' and OS <maki> 'wheat'
Wede:i <mo:mo> 'young' and OS <-mol> 'young'
Wede:i <biźi> 'grass' and OS <misn> 'grass, graze'
Wede:i <bika> 'fir' and OS <migas> 'fir, pine'
Wede:i <jiro> 'moment, hour, time' and OS <ḍira> 'hour'
Wede:i <tik> 'old' and OS <ḍesp-> 'old'
Wede:i <na:i> 'bird' and OS <nals> 'fly, bird'
Wede:i <tok> 'blue' and OS <toş> 'blue'
Wede:i <mai> 'wheat' and OS <maki> 'wheat'
Wede:i <mo:mo> 'young' and OS <-mol> 'young'
Wede:i <biźi> 'grass' and OS <misn> 'grass, graze'
Wede:i <bika> 'fir' and OS <migas> 'fir, pine'
Wede:i <jiro> 'moment, hour, time' and OS <ḍira> 'hour'
Wede:i <tik> 'old' and OS <ḍesp-> 'old'
Re: On A Genetic Connection Between Skourene and Wedei
I predict... Eynelyni/Qarau and Uyse?ic.zompist wrote:Yes, you've got it, congrats. I'm happy the mystery has lasted for five years, though now I guess I'll have to make something more subtle yet...
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Hahaha!
I don't know...maybe something to do with Munkhashi? Western? Palthuk?
Although I like your map a lot, I thought I heard somewhere that Eynleyni and Qarau were distantly related...
I don't know...maybe something to do with Munkhashi? Western? Palthuk?
Although I like your map a lot, I thought I heard somewhere that Eynleyni and Qarau were distantly related...
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This?Abugida wrote:Although I like your map a lot, I thought I heard somewhere that Eynleyni and Qarau were distantly related...
Source : zompist.com
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Yes, partially that, but also partially Almeopedia. Is the link too tenuous or something?
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It may be distant, but it might turn out quite visible.Abugida wrote:Yes, partially that, but also partially Almeopedia. Is the link too tenuous or something?
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Perhaps zompist is just pulling our legs or whatever, and all uestu languages are related to each other
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Re: On A Genetic Connection Between Skourene and Wedei
Interesting... very interesting.
*strokes chin*
Maybe I should concert a new reconstruction of Proto-Eastern in lines with the idea of a Skourene-Wedei-Eastern connection.
*strokes chin*
Maybe I should concert a new reconstruction of Proto-Eastern in lines with the idea of a Skourene-Wedei-Eastern connection.
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For the proto-name, I'd suggest Proto-Southern, by analogy with Proto-Eastern.
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He already did that...Yæd wrote:For the proto-name, I'd suggest Proto-Southern, by analogy with Proto-Eastern.
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Since this has been resurrected...if it's not too late, I'll still try to go the "Penutian"/"Ritwan" route and name it after the number "two"--in this case it has to be an approximate reconstruction or else the name will be too hideous. I'll suggest either "Rokan" or "Rokian" because those are the most appealing, I think, of the possible reconstructions for "two."
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*njok is the actual word for 'two' I used, so that'd be a better basis. (The Mei word is ñok, vowel uncertain.)
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Okay. I think "Nyok(i)an" or "Njok(i)an" still seems to work pretty well? Obviously it's your world so you can go whatever direction with it you want!
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Re: On A Genetic Connection Between Skourene and Wedei
I knew Virtual Verduria probably wasn't telling us everything, but this...
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Re: On A Genetic Connection Between Skourene and Wedei
So, let's summarize what has been done so far:
(1) "who/what" = OS -beg- / Wd -bogu-
(2) "other" = OS -gog / Wd jok
(3) "long" = OS -dim / Wd śim
(4) ??"small" = OS -its / Wd śiya / Tz -it
(5) "woman/nurture" = OS maşḍ / Wd ma:r
(6) "fish" = OS ţag / Wd sak(ana)
(7) "forest" = OS geŋ / Wd jen
(8) "hair" = OS bol- / Wd po:
(9) "head" = OS ?um- / Wd yuma
(10) "nose/smell" = OS sig- / Wd źuko
(11) "foot" = OS gan / Wd keŋ
(12) ?"eat" = OS ŋels- / Wd go:źi
(13) "bite" = OS gim- / Wd kimu
(14) "laugh" = OS sand- / Wd źe:ti
(15) ??"see" = OS ḍişn- / Wd liu
(16) ?"die/kill" = OS keşg- / Wd koku
(17) ?"hunt" = OS nesd- / Wd ŋo:du
(18) ?"hit" = OS serḍ- / Wd śoŋu
(19) "lie down" = OS ŋeḍ- / Wd neru
(20) ?"sit" = OS barḍ- / Wd waŋu
(21) "turn" = OS miḍ- / Wd muri
(22) ?"fall" = OS targ- / Wd źeku
(23) "count" = OS merg- / Wd boyok- [NO]
(24) "say/speak" = OS neln- / Wd yonu
(25) ?"sing" = OS riŋ- / Wd ŋinu
(26) "star" = OS maḍaŋ / Wd ma:in
(27) ??"water" = OS les- / Wd lu:
(28) "river" = OS ḍel / Wd ye / Tz jal
(29) "lake" = OS dit / Wd śi
(30) ??"wind" = OS ḍegl- / Wd do:
(31) ?"burn/fire" = OS rel- / Wd ŋol-
(32) "night" = OS selg- / Wd seki
(33) ?"year" = OS past- / Wd wata
(34) "rotten/bad" = OS ḍer- / Wd yur
(35) "south" = OS ţar / Wd saŋ
(36) ?"north" = OS ḍan / Wd lun
(37) "east" = OS kom / Wd ju
(38) "west" = OS boḍ / Wd wor
(39) "brother" = OS ḍed- / Wd roda
(40) "sister" = OS meld- / Wd beda
(41) "hemp" = OS naşgu / Wd naka
(42) "rule/inherit" = OS baţş- / Wd paźiwa "king"
(43) "branch/arm" = OS daļg- / Wd te:
(44) "deer" = OS mulg- / Wd buka
(45) "beard" = OS ŋarḍ / Wd ge:ŋ
(46) ??"inside" = OS ḍadŋ- / Wd ra
(47) ?"cat" = OS kuļiŋ "mountain lion" / Wd jo:na
(48) "here/this" = OS luļ / Wd lil
(49) "before" = OS mur- / Wd bu
(50) "upward/above" = OS dem- / Wd śen
(51) "below/under" = OS men- / Wd ben
(52) "middle" = OS saln- / Wd sai
(53) "each/every" = OS -doļ / Wd to:l
(54) "big" = OS riḍ- / Wd ŋor / Tz -luj
(55) "seed" = OS ḍad / Wd rada
(56) "one" = OS moţ / Wd bo / Tz mo
(57) "two" = OS ḍog / Wd yok / Tz ñok
(58) "three" = OS ded / Wd śir / Tz dej
(59) "four" = OS darţ / Wd tause
(60) "five" = OS bim / Wd pina
(61) "1sg" = OS -ŋ(o)- / Wd -no
(62) "1pl" = OS -dor- / Wd -tu
(63) "2sg" = OS -g(o)- / Wd -ku
(64) "2pl" = OS -beş- / Wd -we
(65) “bird” = OS nals / Wd na:i
(66) “blue” = OS toş / Wd tok
(67) “wheat” = OS maki / Wd mai / Tz mahi
(68) “young” = OS -mol / Wd mo:mo
(69) “grass” = OS misn / Wd biźi
(70) “fir” = OS migas / Wd bika
(71) “moment” = OS ḍira / Wd jiro
(72) “old” = OS ḍesp- / Wd tik
(73) ?“city” = OS eŋ / Tz im
(74) “person” = OS mand / Wd bogu / Tz man
(75) "body, flesh" = OS med / Wd beśa
I added sets for the cognates Alces found (65-72) and, basing on the Almeopedia page, I added Tžuro correspondence to sets 4, 28, 54, 56, 57, 58, and 67.
Then I included sets 73, 74, 75. There seems to be no Wd cognate to 73 (???dau), please correct me if I'm wrong. I also noticed that Wd bogu "individual, person, someone" could more probably be related to OS mand "people, nation" (and Tžuro man "people") than to OS -beg- "who, what", see 1.
Finally, I would like to open a debate on vowels: I found out that they show up to be the same in both languages, but there are some (apparently) unexplicable exceptions, e.g. OS o / Wd u (37, 62); OS e / Wd o (12, 16, 17, 18, 24, 30, 31, 39) and few others. Laryngeals?
(1) "who/what" = OS -beg- / Wd -bogu-
(2) "other" = OS -gog / Wd jok
(3) "long" = OS -dim / Wd śim
(4) ??"small" = OS -its / Wd śiya / Tz -it
(5) "woman/nurture" = OS maşḍ / Wd ma:r
(6) "fish" = OS ţag / Wd sak(ana)
(7) "forest" = OS geŋ / Wd jen
(8) "hair" = OS bol- / Wd po:
(9) "head" = OS ?um- / Wd yuma
(10) "nose/smell" = OS sig- / Wd źuko
(11) "foot" = OS gan / Wd keŋ
(12) ?"eat" = OS ŋels- / Wd go:źi
(13) "bite" = OS gim- / Wd kimu
(14) "laugh" = OS sand- / Wd źe:ti
(15) ??"see" = OS ḍişn- / Wd liu
(16) ?"die/kill" = OS keşg- / Wd koku
(17) ?"hunt" = OS nesd- / Wd ŋo:du
(18) ?"hit" = OS serḍ- / Wd śoŋu
(19) "lie down" = OS ŋeḍ- / Wd neru
(20) ?"sit" = OS barḍ- / Wd waŋu
(21) "turn" = OS miḍ- / Wd muri
(22) ?"fall" = OS targ- / Wd źeku
(23) "count" = OS merg- / Wd boyok- [NO]
(24) "say/speak" = OS neln- / Wd yonu
(25) ?"sing" = OS riŋ- / Wd ŋinu
(26) "star" = OS maḍaŋ / Wd ma:in
(27) ??"water" = OS les- / Wd lu:
(28) "river" = OS ḍel / Wd ye / Tz jal
(29) "lake" = OS dit / Wd śi
(30) ??"wind" = OS ḍegl- / Wd do:
(31) ?"burn/fire" = OS rel- / Wd ŋol-
(32) "night" = OS selg- / Wd seki
(33) ?"year" = OS past- / Wd wata
(34) "rotten/bad" = OS ḍer- / Wd yur
(35) "south" = OS ţar / Wd saŋ
(36) ?"north" = OS ḍan / Wd lun
(37) "east" = OS kom / Wd ju
(38) "west" = OS boḍ / Wd wor
(39) "brother" = OS ḍed- / Wd roda
(40) "sister" = OS meld- / Wd beda
(41) "hemp" = OS naşgu / Wd naka
(42) "rule/inherit" = OS baţş- / Wd paźiwa "king"
(43) "branch/arm" = OS daļg- / Wd te:
(44) "deer" = OS mulg- / Wd buka
(45) "beard" = OS ŋarḍ / Wd ge:ŋ
(46) ??"inside" = OS ḍadŋ- / Wd ra
(47) ?"cat" = OS kuļiŋ "mountain lion" / Wd jo:na
(48) "here/this" = OS luļ / Wd lil
(49) "before" = OS mur- / Wd bu
(50) "upward/above" = OS dem- / Wd śen
(51) "below/under" = OS men- / Wd ben
(52) "middle" = OS saln- / Wd sai
(53) "each/every" = OS -doļ / Wd to:l
(54) "big" = OS riḍ- / Wd ŋor / Tz -luj
(55) "seed" = OS ḍad / Wd rada
(56) "one" = OS moţ / Wd bo / Tz mo
(57) "two" = OS ḍog / Wd yok / Tz ñok
(58) "three" = OS ded / Wd śir / Tz dej
(59) "four" = OS darţ / Wd tause
(60) "five" = OS bim / Wd pina
(61) "1sg" = OS -ŋ(o)- / Wd -no
(62) "1pl" = OS -dor- / Wd -tu
(63) "2sg" = OS -g(o)- / Wd -ku
(64) "2pl" = OS -beş- / Wd -we
(65) “bird” = OS nals / Wd na:i
(66) “blue” = OS toş / Wd tok
(67) “wheat” = OS maki / Wd mai / Tz mahi
(68) “young” = OS -mol / Wd mo:mo
(69) “grass” = OS misn / Wd biźi
(70) “fir” = OS migas / Wd bika
(71) “moment” = OS ḍira / Wd jiro
(72) “old” = OS ḍesp- / Wd tik
(73) ?“city” = OS eŋ / Tz im
(74) “person” = OS mand / Wd bogu / Tz man
(75) "body, flesh" = OS med / Wd beśa
I added sets for the cognates Alces found (65-72) and, basing on the Almeopedia page, I added Tžuro correspondence to sets 4, 28, 54, 56, 57, 58, and 67.
Then I included sets 73, 74, 75. There seems to be no Wd cognate to 73 (???dau), please correct me if I'm wrong. I also noticed that Wd bogu "individual, person, someone" could more probably be related to OS mand "people, nation" (and Tžuro man "people") than to OS -beg- "who, what", see 1.
Finally, I would like to open a debate on vowels: I found out that they show up to be the same in both languages, but there are some (apparently) unexplicable exceptions, e.g. OS o / Wd u (37, 62); OS e / Wd o (12, 16, 17, 18, 24, 30, 31, 39) and few others. Laryngeals?
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Re: On A Genetic Connection Between Skourene and Wedei
Part of the difficulty with reconstructing vowels will be the triconsonantal root system of the Lenani-Littoral languages; it's not clear that the "citation root" forms of OS wordgroups that I've been comparing with Wede:i are actually the "most cognate" forms, as it were. If that makes sense. That being said, I do think there's some evidence that the citation forms of OS are the best forms of each root to use for comparative purposes; for instance, those in which the final two consonants form a cluster in the citation form generally correspond to Wede:i words with long vowels or diphthongs plus a single consonant, as though an older cluster had been simplified, with compensatory lengthening and/or vowel breaking.
As for Wd bogu : OS mand, I doubt it. The Wd g : OS nd correspondence has no precedent in any of the other sets (Wd g normally corresponds to OS ŋ, as in sets 12 and 45, while OS nd corresponds to Wd :t in set 14, as we might expect given the more general Wd [voiceless stop] : OS [voiced stop] correspondence). In any case, the Wede:i lexicon gives the etymology of bogu as "one" + "person," so the part to be comparing is -gu.
I may try going through the lexicons and seeing what further possible cognates I can find.
[EDIT: Also OS for "night" should be seḷg, not selg]
EDIT2: I'm getting tired of this now so I'll post what I've got so far:
(76) "pay attention": OS bam- "watch, observe" / Wd pamu "hear, listen"
(77) "wood": OS burn / Wd puŋan
(78) "wrap": OS deg- / Wd śok "bundle"
(79) "six": OS mar / Wd baŋ
(80) "lip": OS melm / Wd beme
(81) "apart, isolated": OS mirḍ / Wd bori "island" [cf OS mreḍa "island" from the same root]
(82) "drink, choose (?)": OS dam- "drink" / Wd tenu "elect, choose"
EDIT3: And some more dubious ones:
(83) ??"weep": OS derk- / Wd ti:zi
(84) ?"cross, intersect": OS dil- / Wd tu: "crossroads"
(85) ?"pour out, measure (?)": OS manṭ- "weigh, measure" / Wd bu:nu "empty, pour out"
(86) ??"establish": OS ṭart- / Wd dau "city" [cf OS ṭreta "city-state, country, land" from the same root]
EDIT4: ALSO one I missed in the Swadesh list long ago:
(87) "earth": OS raḍ / Wd ŋaza
As for Wd bogu : OS mand, I doubt it. The Wd g : OS nd correspondence has no precedent in any of the other sets (Wd g normally corresponds to OS ŋ, as in sets 12 and 45, while OS nd corresponds to Wd :t in set 14, as we might expect given the more general Wd [voiceless stop] : OS [voiced stop] correspondence). In any case, the Wede:i lexicon gives the etymology of bogu as "one" + "person," so the part to be comparing is -gu.
I may try going through the lexicons and seeing what further possible cognates I can find.
[EDIT: Also OS for "night" should be seḷg, not selg]
EDIT2: I'm getting tired of this now so I'll post what I've got so far:
(76) "pay attention": OS bam- "watch, observe" / Wd pamu "hear, listen"
(77) "wood": OS burn / Wd puŋan
(78) "wrap": OS deg- / Wd śok "bundle"
(79) "six": OS mar / Wd baŋ
(80) "lip": OS melm / Wd beme
(81) "apart, isolated": OS mirḍ / Wd bori "island" [cf OS mreḍa "island" from the same root]
(82) "drink, choose (?)": OS dam- "drink" / Wd tenu "elect, choose"
EDIT3: And some more dubious ones:
(83) ??"weep": OS derk- / Wd ti:zi
(84) ?"cross, intersect": OS dil- / Wd tu: "crossroads"
(85) ?"pour out, measure (?)": OS manṭ- "weigh, measure" / Wd bu:nu "empty, pour out"
(86) ??"establish": OS ṭart- / Wd dau "city" [cf OS ṭreta "city-state, country, land" from the same root]
EDIT4: ALSO one I missed in the Swadesh list long ago:
(87) "earth": OS raḍ / Wd ŋaza
Re: On A Genetic Connection Between Skourene and Wedei
As I said earlier, there's about 150 shared roots, so you're about halfway there. If you've got the correspondences for the initials, you can probably find the rest.
I could point out errors if you like, but maybe that's cheating. But I know from trying to reconstruct Ran's proto-Isles that a few non-cognates mixed in can make the whole enterprise difficult.
I could point out errors if you like, but maybe that's cheating. But I know from trying to reconstruct Ran's proto-Isles that a few non-cognates mixed in can make the whole enterprise difficult.
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No, don't point out the errors, this way it's more realistic!
[it's not realistic that we have no Tzuro/etc or Mei/Fei/etc data to work with, though -- better get on that, man!]
[it's not realistic that we have no Tzuro/etc or Mei/Fei/etc data to work with, though -- better get on that, man!]
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We have some Tzuro data, which i think is likely to be important. For instance, the maki/mai/mahi (67) and mand/bogu/man pretty clearly shows that theres more than just a m/b correspondence for Skourene/Wedei.Whimemsz wrote:No, don't point out the errors, this way it's more realistic!
[it's not realistic that we have no Tzuro/etc or Mei/Fei/etc data to work with, though -- better get on that, man!]
Re: On A Genetic Connection Between Skourene and Wedei
We have some Tzuro data, which i think is likely to be important. For instance, the maki/mai/mahi (67) and mand/bogu/man pretty clearly shows that theres more than just a m/b correspondence for Skourene/Wedei.Whimemsz wrote:No, don't point out the errors, this way it's more realistic!
[it's not realistic that we have no Tzuro/etc or Mei/Fei/etc data to work with, though -- better get on that, man!]
Observation:
I've been looking at /d/ in Skourene, and I think I've figured it out.
Skourene:
*d -> d
Wedei:
*d->???->ś/_{ie}
*d->t/#_
*d->d
This accounts for almost all the instances of ś except (4) and (18). I think (18) is simply not a cognate, as it's the only one where Skourene s corresponds to Wedei ś. I think (4) is also not cognate, as Tzure shows -it, not anything like śiya, but rather like -its.
Wedei ź seems to correspond to Skourene s, but there's too few examples for me to really see the pattern.
I'm pretty sure that something weird happened to PS nasals, they're reflexes in Skourene and Wedei are hard (for instance Skourene r often seems to be Wedei ŋ, like in (31) and (54)). There also must be two phonemes to explain b and m, as they're are clear patterns of both OS b#/ W m# / Tz m# and OS m#/ W m# / Tz m#.
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It's been a while since anyone's tried reconstructing proto-Nyokan.
I've made some attemps over the week-end; I'm not very good at this, so this is probably really sloppy; but here we go anyway:
Initials
b and p
I could find two correspondence sets for initial b:
- Wede:i w / OS b: beş / we, barḍ, waŋu
- Wede:i p / OS b: bim / pina, baţş, paźiwa
Bogu was a bit of a puzzle until I checked the Wede:i lexicon and realized it wasn't cognate.
So I'm going to reconstruct proto-Nyokan *b > Wede:i w.
I'm pretty sure OS consistently voices stops before vowels, so p-N *p > OS b. But more on that later.
(I'm also rather sure that bsepa 'clan' and 'papa', mother are cognates. (Also, Tzhuro fsava 1) Begins with a voiceless sound 2) Refers to matrilinear clans).
We don't have a lot of correspondences for initial p in OS. Just past / wata, and I see nothing really inspiring in the lexicons for now. I'll leave that one alone.
Initial t / d
There's a Wede:i t / OS d correspondance, which I expected:
doļ / to:l
dor / tu
darţ / tause
There's also a Wede:i ś/ OS d correspondence:
ded śir
dim śim
dit śi
It's fairly tempting to reconstruct *t for these, and to posit:
*t > *d in OS
*t > *ś before a front vowel in Wede:i
I'm really bothered by these:
targ źeku
toş tok
and more generally, what about OS t?
Initial retroflexes
At this stage, things get a little confusing
OS ḍad / Wd rada
ḍad
rada
ḍed
roda
ḍer
riŋu
Except there’s the number 'two'.
ḍog / yok
Let’s posit :
*ḍ > Wede:i *r
*nj > OS ḍ, Wede:i y
Come to think of it, wouldn't nj > n make more sense. It really looks like neln / yonu are cognates.
OK, I’m blocked. Let’s move on. There’s definitely an OS ţ / Wede:i s correspondance.
ţag
sak
ţar
saŋ
Also, ṭaşg- and suku. Both mean ‘pierce’. Quite possibly cognates.
Nasals and rhotics
Let’s start with OS m.
(75) "body, flesh" = OS med / Wd beśa
(40) "sister" = OS meld- / Wd beda
(51) "below/under" = OS men- / Wd ben
(21) "turn" = OS miḍ- / Wd muri
(68) “young” = OS -mol / Wd mo:mo
(26) "star" = OS maḍaŋ / Wd ma:in
(5) "woman/nurture" = OS maşḍ / Wd ma:r
OK… So I’m going to reconstruct *m > OS *m, Wd *b, but I don't know what to make of the m - m set.
OS ŋ corresponds either to Wd g or n.
(61) "1sg" = OS -ŋ(o)- / Wd -no
(45) "beard" = OS ŋarḍ / Wd ge:ŋ
(19) "lie down" = OS ŋeḍ- / Wd neru
Finally, a pretty much straightforward set to end this post: OS initial r / Wd ŋ:
raḍ / ŋaza
rel / ŋol
ren / ŋewa
riḍ / ŋor
riŋ / ŋin
I've made some attemps over the week-end; I'm not very good at this, so this is probably really sloppy; but here we go anyway:
Initials
b and p
I could find two correspondence sets for initial b:
- Wede:i w / OS b: beş / we, barḍ, waŋu
- Wede:i p / OS b: bim / pina, baţş, paźiwa
Bogu was a bit of a puzzle until I checked the Wede:i lexicon and realized it wasn't cognate.
So I'm going to reconstruct proto-Nyokan *b > Wede:i w.
I'm pretty sure OS consistently voices stops before vowels, so p-N *p > OS b. But more on that later.
(I'm also rather sure that bsepa 'clan' and 'papa', mother are cognates. (Also, Tzhuro fsava 1) Begins with a voiceless sound 2) Refers to matrilinear clans).
We don't have a lot of correspondences for initial p in OS. Just past / wata, and I see nothing really inspiring in the lexicons for now. I'll leave that one alone.
Initial t / d
There's a Wede:i t / OS d correspondance, which I expected:
doļ / to:l
dor / tu
darţ / tause
There's also a Wede:i ś/ OS d correspondence:
ded śir
dim śim
dit śi
It's fairly tempting to reconstruct *t for these, and to posit:
*t > *d in OS
*t > *ś before a front vowel in Wede:i
I'm really bothered by these:
targ źeku
toş tok
and more generally, what about OS t?
Initial retroflexes
At this stage, things get a little confusing
OS ḍad / Wd rada
ḍad
rada
ḍed
roda
ḍer
riŋu
Except there’s the number 'two'.
ḍog / yok
Let’s posit :
*ḍ > Wede:i *r
*nj > OS ḍ, Wede:i y
Come to think of it, wouldn't nj > n make more sense. It really looks like neln / yonu are cognates.
OK, I’m blocked. Let’s move on. There’s definitely an OS ţ / Wede:i s correspondance.
ţag
sak
ţar
saŋ
Also, ṭaşg- and suku. Both mean ‘pierce’. Quite possibly cognates.
Nasals and rhotics
Let’s start with OS m.
(75) "body, flesh" = OS med / Wd beśa
(40) "sister" = OS meld- / Wd beda
(51) "below/under" = OS men- / Wd ben
(21) "turn" = OS miḍ- / Wd muri
(68) “young” = OS -mol / Wd mo:mo
(26) "star" = OS maḍaŋ / Wd ma:in
(5) "woman/nurture" = OS maşḍ / Wd ma:r
OK… So I’m going to reconstruct *m > OS *m, Wd *b, but I don't know what to make of the m - m set.
OS ŋ corresponds either to Wd g or n.
(61) "1sg" = OS -ŋ(o)- / Wd -no
(45) "beard" = OS ŋarḍ / Wd ge:ŋ
(19) "lie down" = OS ŋeḍ- / Wd neru
Finally, a pretty much straightforward set to end this post: OS initial r / Wd ŋ:
raḍ / ŋaza
rel / ŋol
ren / ŋewa
riḍ / ŋor
riŋ / ŋin
Re: On A Genetic Connection Between Skourene and Wedei
Vowels
I really feel the painful effects of lack of data.
The cognate list is short enough that one non-cognate form is probably enough to make the whole analysis invalid.
But hey, why not try anyway?
Once again, that's probably really, really sloppy.
It seems pretty obvious that OS drops the root's final vowels. I won't touch OS morphology with a long stick for now, but I suspect some sort of syncope rule is at play.
Pairs such as :
suggest, once again, that stops might have been voiced before vowels.
The vowels look pretty stable actually; we'll concentrate on the cases where there's a difference.
These are interesting:
In both cases, there's a nasal either in OS or Wd.
Another intriguing pattern:
Basically, it looks like whenever the following vowel, preserved in Wede:i is a back vowel, the first vowels is backed in Wd.
Could this be a form of vowel harmony ?
*keku > koku (?)
*yenu > yonu (?)
*ziko > zuko (?)
(Also, boyok really looks like it wants to be cognate with melg; it's not).
Hey, that could be an al > ai change!
Except for that pair:
Damn.
I really feel the painful effects of lack of data.
The cognate list is short enough that one non-cognate form is probably enough to make the whole analysis invalid.
But hey, why not try anyway?
Once again, that's probably really, really sloppy.
It seems pretty obvious that OS drops the root's final vowels. I won't touch OS morphology with a long stick for now, but I suspect some sort of syncope rule is at play.
Pairs such as :
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(16) ?"die/kill" = OS keşg- / Wd koku
(32) "night" = OS selg- / Wd seki
(70) “fir” = OS migas / Wd bika
The vowels look pretty stable actually; we'll concentrate on the cases where there's a difference.
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(36) ?"north" = OS ḍan / Wd lun ḍan lun a u
(43) "branch/arm" = OS daļg- / Wd te: daļg te: a e:
(11) "foot" = OS gan / Wd keŋ gan keŋ a e
(14) "laugh" = OS sand- / Wd źe:ti sand- źe:ti a e:
(45) "beard" = OS ŋarḍ / Wd ge:ŋ ŋarḍ ge:ŋ a e:
(59) "four" = OS darţ / Wd tause darţ tause a au
(22) ?"fall" = OS targ- / Wd źeku targ targ a e
(5) "woman/nurture" = OS maşḍ / Wd ma:r maşḍ ma:r a a:
(65) “bird” = OS nals / Wd na:i nals na:i a a:
(52) "middle" = OS saln- / Wd sai saln sai a ai
(39) "brother" = OS ḍed- / Wd roda ḍed roda e o
(34) "rotten/bad" = OS ḍer- / Wd yur ḍer riŋu e i
(72) “old” = OS ḍesp- / Wd tik ḍesp tik e i
(30) ??"wind" = OS ḍegl- / Wd do: ḍegl do: e o
(16) ?"die/kill" = OS keşg- / Wd koku keşg koku e o
(23) "count" = OS merg- / Wd boyok- [NO] merg boyok e o
(24) "say/speak" = OS neln- / Wd yonu neln yonu e o
(17) ?"hunt" = OS nesd- / Wd ŋo:du nesd ŋo:du e o
(32) "night" = OS selg- / Wd seki selg seki e e:
(58) "three" = OS ded / Wd śir / Tz dej ded śir e i
(27) ??"water" = OS les- / Wd lu: les lu e u
(12) ?"eat" = OS ŋels- / Wd go:źi ŋels go:zi e o:
(31) ?"burn/fire" = OS rel- / Wd ŋol- rel ŋol e o
(18) ?"hit" = OS serḍ- / Wd śoŋu serḍ śoŋu e o
(15) ??"see" = OS ḍişn- / Wd liu ḍişn liu i iu
(21) "turn" = OS miḍ- / Wd muri miḍ muri i u
(54) "big" = OS riḍ- / Wd ŋor / Tz -luj riḍ ŋor i o
(10) "nose/smell" = OS sig- / Wd źuko sig zuko i u
(62) "1pl" = OS -dor- / Wd -tu dor tu o u
(63) "2sg" = OS -g(o)- / Wd -ku g(o) ku o u
(37) "east" = OS kom / Wd ju kom ju o u
(47) ?"cat" = OS kuļiŋ "mountain lion" / Wd jo:na kuļiŋ jo:na u o:
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(43) "branch/arm" = OS daļg- / Wd te: daļg te: a e:
(14) "laugh" = OS sand- / Wd źe:ti sand- źe:ti a e:
(45) "beard" = OS ŋarḍ / Wd ge:ŋ ŋarḍ ge:ŋ a e:
Another intriguing pattern:
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(16) ?"die/kill" = OS keşg- / Wd koku keşg koku e o
(24) "say/speak" = OS neln- / Wd yonu neln yonu e o
(17) ?"hunt" = OS nesd- / Wd ŋo:du nesd ŋo:du e o
(10) "nose/smell" = OS sig- / Wd źuko sig zuko i u
(39) "brother" = OS ḍed- / Wd roda ḍed roda e o
Could this be a form of vowel harmony ?
*keku > koku (?)
*yenu > yonu (?)
*ziko > zuko (?)
(Also, boyok really looks like it wants to be cognate with melg; it's not).
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(65) “bird” = OS nals / Wd na:i nals na:i
(52) "middle" = OS saln- / Wd sai saln sai
Except for that pair:
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(43) "branch/arm" = OS daļg- / Wd te: daļg te:
Re: On A Genetic Connection Between Skourene and Wedei
A handful of -tentative- reconstructions
I've found that it helps to maintain a list of possible ancestors.
Here are some of the most plausible ones (Doesn't mean I'm satisfied with them, though).
Now I'd really like to know how close I got
I've found that it helps to maintain a list of possible ancestors.
Here are some of the most plausible ones (Doesn't mean I'm satisfied with them, though).
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(51) "below/under" = OS men- / Wd ben *men
(64) "2pl" = OS -beş- / Wd -we *bes
(38) "west" = OS boḍ / Wd wor *boD
(8) "hair" = OS bol- / Wd po: *pol
(20) ?"sit" = OS barḍ- / Wd waŋu *barDu
(55) "seed" = OS ḍad / Wd rada *Dada
(16) ?"die/kill" = OS keşg- / Wd koku *keSku
(13) "bite" = OS gim- / Wd kimu *kimu
(70) “fir” = OS migas / Wd bika *mikas
(40) "sister" = OS meld- / Wd beda *melda
"~beget" OS besp / Wd papa *paspa
(29) "lake" = OS dit / Wd śi *tit
(14) "laugh" = OS sand- / Wd źe:ti *santi
(18) ?"hit" = OS serḍ- / Wd śoŋu *serDu
Re: On A Genetic Connection Between Skourene and Wedei
OK, sure. Here's your list with my own proto-terms added.Ars Lande wrote:Now I'd really like to know how close I got
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(51) "below/under" = OS men- / Wd ben *men / *mjeŋ
(64) "2pl" = OS -beş- / Wd -we *bes / * -pje
(38) "west" = OS boḍ / Wd wor *boD / *pjoc
(8) "hair" = OS bol- / Wd po: *pol / * pulo
(20) ?"sit" = OS barḍ- / Wd waŋu *barDu / *pjaγ
(55) "seed" = OS ḍad / Wd rada *Dada / *cata
(16) ?"die/kill" = OS keşg- / Wd koku *keSku / *kosk-
(13) "bite" = OS gim- / Wd kimu *kimu / *kim-
(70) “fir” = OS migas / Wd bika *mikas / * mika
(40) "sister" = OS meld- / Wd beda *melda / * mjeta
"~beget" OS besp / Wd papa *paspa / not cognate, I think
(29) "lake" = OS dit / Wd śi *tit / *tji
(14) "laugh" = OS sand- / Wd źe:ti *santi / *sant-
(18) ?"hit" = OS serḍ- / Wd śoŋu *serDu / *sjoγ-
Proto-Southern is reconstructed without any voicing contrasts, but a systematic palatalization (à la Russian) represented by *j.