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'''Senantho's Law''' is a sound change in the western branch of the [[Hesperic]] family.  It is named after an ancient [[Elves (The Elvenpath)|Elven]] grammarian who observed that in [[Old Albic]], the group '''tha''' in a suffix (e.g. the agent suffix '''-thara''' or the instrument suffix '''-thal''') changes into '''i''' when the suffix follows a stop.  For example, while 'thinker' is '''manthara''' (root '''man-'''), 'killer' is '''matera''' (root '''mat-''').  This is actually an instance of a more general sound change affecting all western Hesperic languages, wherein a stop immediately following another stop is changed into a semivowel.  Dental and velar stops become '''*j''' (which drops before '''*w''') while labial stops become '''*w'''.  Another example besides the Old Albic (and cognate West Hesperic) agent and instrument suffixes is the cognacy of the Old Albic Earth goddess name '''Dime''' and [[Valdiska]] '''gama''' 'soil', both from Proto-Hesperic '''*dgama''' (cf. [[Proto-Indo-European|PIE]] '''*dhǵhom-''' 'earth'). Geminate stops are unaffected.
'''Senantho's Law''' is a sound change in the northern branch of the [[Hesperic]] family.  It is named after an ancient [[Elves (The Elvenpath)|Elven]] grammarian who observed that in [[Old Albic]], the group '''tha''' in a suffix (e.g. the agent suffix '''-thara''' or the instrument suffix '''-thal''') changes into '''i''' when the suffix follows a stop.  For example, while 'thinker' is '''manthara''' (root '''man-'''), 'killer' is '''matera''' (root '''mat-''').  This is actually an instance of a more general sound change affecting all western Hesperic languages, wherein a stop immediately following another stop is changed into a semivowel.  Dental and velar stops become '''*j''' (which drops before '''*w''') while labial stops become '''*w'''. Geminate stops are unaffected.


The change did not happen in [[Viddan]], where the second of two consecutive stops is dropped, nor in [[Valdiska]] or [[Duniscian]], where the first of such stops is dropped.
The change did not happen in the South Hesperic languages.


==See also==
==See also==


* [[Drummond's Law]] and [[Alfermann's Law]], other named sound changes in West Hesperic
* [[Drummond's Law]] and [[Alfermann's Law]], other named sound changes in North Hesperic


[[Category:Hesperic]]
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Latest revision as of 07:36, 18 August 2019

Senantho's Law is a sound change in the northern branch of the Hesperic family. It is named after an ancient Elven grammarian who observed that in Old Albic, the group tha in a suffix (e.g. the agent suffix -thara or the instrument suffix -thal) changes into i when the suffix follows a stop. For example, while 'thinker' is manthara (root man-), 'killer' is matera (root mat-). This is actually an instance of a more general sound change affecting all western Hesperic languages, wherein a stop immediately following another stop is changed into a semivowel. Dental and velar stops become *j (which drops before *w) while labial stops become *w. Geminate stops are unaffected.

The change did not happen in the South Hesperic languages.

See also

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