#paatara

[vilikemorgenthal]

Lexember #7 : éeŧi

Conlang: Paatara

My most recent conlang, and the most in need for basic vocabulary.

The word

éeŧi /ˈeːt̪i/, pn: “we, us (tonic form)”

Declension

Personal pronouns do not inflect for the same cases as regular nouns. In addition to an accusative case, they also have a clitic form after conjunctions (varying in vocalic height depending on the latter’s vowel).

N: éeŧi

Acc: uŧíi

G: uŧík

D: uŧéf

L: uŧír

Clitic form: -ŧee, -ŧaa

Example

Kamp uŧíi təšá eagle<DEF> we.ACC PFV\see-PST.3s “the eagle saw us”

Legacy

I don’t know yet how it would wind up to be in the daughter languages (regularized inflection? disparition?); it’s certain however that no language from other families would have borrowed it.

[vilikemorgenthal]

Lexember #1 : wéšʔə

Conlang: Paatara

Paatara is the ancestral language of the northern fringes of Ambetau’s most-focused-on continent, more precisely the Fjord Bay. In modern times, its descendants are few; but they once spanned all the North and had a pervasive influence on Suneric languages of the region. Morphologically, it uses ablaut to some degree (depending on stress) and affixation (suffixes, infixes, prefixes). Some daughter languages have developed it into a Semitic-style morphology.

The word

wéšʔə /ˈweʃʔə/, pl. ušéʔ /uˈʃeʔ/, n.: “wolf; rank-and-file pack wolf”

Declension

Paatara words decline for two numbers (sg., pl.), four cases (nominative, genitive, dative, locative) and determination (indefinite, definite).

Sg. (indefinite, definite):

N: wéšʔə, wénšʔə

G: wéšiʔ, wénšiʔ

D: wéšʔef, wénšʔef

L: wéširʔə, wénširʔə

Pl. (indefinite, definite):

N: ušéʔ, nušéʔ

G: ušéʔi, nušéʔi

D: ušéʔef, nušéʔef

L: ušéʔir, nušéʔir

The plural number for this word is indicated with a stress-moving pattern, causing vowels to disappear and semi-vowels to fully vocalize. The definite marker n- “the” is always within the first syllable: on the coda if it is stressed, on the onset if not.

Legacy

Descendants of this word (with the same meaning) were borrowed into all Northern Suneric languages, under a variety of form: veša, veši, vissa, etc.