#osrican

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Lexember 2024 day 25: Osrican

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LEXEMBER 2024 ΑΥΣΡËΚΦΙΝ - OSRICAN

δαγχë 25

Ναταλëφεστ n. /nɐˈtɐ.lə.fest/ Christmas.

A compound of «Ναταλë» Nativity and «φεστ» celebration, holiday, festival, the former from Italian «Natale» and the latter from Middle High German «fëst». Synonym of «Jευλυφεστ» /ˈjeu̯.lʊ.fest/.

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like I mentioned last month, I decided to change the phonology of Osrican and Kxërt'exo because they felt a bit too similar to each other for my liking, so I finally got around to doing that. I don't know if I'll update my Lexember 2024 posts anytime soon because I'm lazy, I might re-post them somewhere else when I finally get around to it, but for now just keep in mind that those posts are not fully accurate anymore

I described the changes in more detail on a post on my wordpress site, but here's the quick version of what I changed:

Osrican

Got rid of the lateral fricatives [ɬ] and [ɮ], they merged with the non-lateral alveolars [s] and [z], which further obscures some cognates with other germanic languages

Got rid of the allophone [χ] for the /x/ phoneme, it used to be the case that /x/ turned uvular in stressed syllables, but not anymore (this way the /x/ phoneme is always pronounced differently between Osrican and Kxërt'exo)

Affricates [t͡ʃ] [d͡ʒ] [t͡s] and [d͡z] can only appear in more limited environments now, they can appear in stressed syllables or when they cluster with a fricative (like in the word for 90 νεβιυγȷwι · (nebüdjvi) /ˈne.bʏd͡ʒ.vɪ/), when they're in unstressed positions and not clustering with a fricative they turn into fricatives [ʃ] [ʒ] [s] and [z]

Kxërt’exo

The /r/ phoneme is now split into 2 sounds: the tap [ɾ] that only appeared in clusters has now merged with [n] which actually means that the name of the language is Kxënt'exo now! (I'll update my tags later, I'm lazy)

The trill [r] which would appear in non-clustering positions is now pronounced as a uvular trill [ʀ]

The allophones [b] [d] and [ɡ] no longer exist, plain stops are now always unvoiced [p] [t] and [k] (the rule was that plain stops become voiced in stressed syllables, which was always a bit of a weird rule, probably not very naturalistic at all, glad I got rid of it tbh)

The allophones [c] [ɟ] and [ɥ] no longer exist, velars are now pronounced [k] [ɡ] and [w] regardless of if they're before a non-open front vowel (I believe [ɥ] still exists as an allophone of /j/ though)

/j/ can't cluster anymore, there's an epenthetic /i/ inserted to break up the cluster, same goes for /w/, getting an epenthetic /u/ to break up the cluster (this didn't show up in the Lexember entries but there's a conjugation that added the prefix /pja-/ to words, and now the prefix is /pija-/, or maybe I'll shorten it to /pa-/ or something else, we'll see)

Front rounded vowels <ö> and <ü> are now central [ɵ] and [ʉ]

Emphatic [pˠ] [tˠ] [q] (which come from pharyngealized stops [pˤ] [tˤ] [kˤ] in the proto language) are now ejectives [pʼ] [tʼ] [kʼ]

and finally the pharyngealized affricate from the proto language [t͡ʃˤ] won't merge with the plain affricate anymore, meaning that the evolved language now has ejective [t͡sʼ] as well! (it's spelled with the letter that corresponds to the in the Standard Galactic Alphabet, in case you're curious, I think some Lexember entries like the word for "creeper" use it)

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Lexember 2024 day 31: Osrican

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LEXEMBER 2024 ΑΥΣΡËΚΦΙΝ - OSRICAN

δαγχë 31

Νευȷëν v. /ˈneu̯.jən/ to renew, make new again, make fresh, to repair, replenish, to restart, repeat.

From Proto-Germanic *niwjaną to make new, renew.

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Lexember 2024 day 30: Osrican

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LEXEMBER 2024 ΑΥΣΡËΚΦΙΝ - OSRICAN

δαγχë 30

Γχυγγχρυ n. /ˈwuŋ.xɾʊ/ hunger.

From Proto-Germanic *hunhruz the East Germanic form of the word for hunger.

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Lexember 2024 day 29: Osrican

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LEXEMBER 2024 ΑΥΣΡËΚΦΙΝ - OSRICAN

δαγχë 29

Βëιριλ n. /ˈbɤi̯.rɪl/ jug, pitcher, pot.

From Proto-Germanic *bērilaz vessel for transport, container, jug, basket, carrying equipment, stretcher.

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Lexember 2024 day 28: Osrican

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δαγχë 28

Γχȷινδιρ prep. /ˈʒin.dɪr/ behind, beyond, later, after.

From Proto-Germanic *hinder (with accusative or dative) behind, beyond | (as an adverb) back, on that side of, behind.

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Lexember 2024 day 27: Osrican

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δαγχë 27

Γυλ adj. /ɡul/ yellow.

From Proto-Germanic *gulaz yellow. This word has descendants in North Germanic languages, like Icelandic «gulur» and Norwegian «gul».

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Lexember 2024 day 26: Osrican

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LEXEMBER 2024 ΑΥΣΡËΚΦΙΝ - OSRICAN

δαγχë 26

Χανυκα n. /xɐ.nʊˈkɐ/ Hanukkah.

From Hebrew «חנוכה» (khanuká). In early translations of the Bible the word used for Hanukkah was «ëγγκαινια» borrowed from Ancient Greek «εγκαίνια» (enkaínia) used in the Septuagint.

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