Talk:Proto-Northern-Romance (MGR)
Vowel Lengthening in Open Syllables
Vowels in open syllables became lengthened, and three new sounds /ɛː/, /eː/ and /oː/ emerged:
| Open Syllable Lengthening | ||
|---|---|---|
| ɪ | > | eː |
| ɛ | > | ɛː |
| a | > | aː |
| ɔ | > | ɔː |
| ʊ | > | oː |
Pronouns
Personal, reflexive and impersonal pronouns
Many of these pronouns have a short or unstressed and a long or stressed form. Where this is the case the short or unstressed form is shown to the left and the long or stressed to the right with a slash between them. It should be noted that some of these stressed or long forms go back to Latin unstressed forms which became stressed once again in certain contexts. These re-stressed forms with lengthened vowels could then lose stress again, resulting in doublets with a long vowel and a diphthong respectively, and thus three different forms corresponding to three degrees of stress of emphasis. In the further development of the separate languages some or other of these forms usually fell out of use, the cycle of loss and acquisition of stress going on through the centuries.
| Personal, reflexive and impersonal pronouns | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | ||||||
| m. | f. | m. | f. | ||||
| 1st person | Nom. | jō | nus | ||||
| Acc. | mi/mē/mei | ||||||
| Gen. | mīs | ma | nōster | nōstra | |||
| Dat. | mī | nous | |||||
| 2d person | Nom. | tū | wus | ||||
| Acc. | ti/tē/tei | ||||||
| Gen. | tus | ta | wōster | wōstra | |||
| Dat. | tī | wous | Refl. | Impers. | |||
| 3d person | Nom. | el | ella | lī/ellī | lē/lei/ellas | hom | |
| Acc. | lu/lō/lou | la/lā | los/els | las/ellas | si/sē/sei | hom(m) | |
| Gen. | sus | sa | lōr/lour/ellōr | hommis | |||
| Dat. | lui | lei | līs/ellīs | sī | hommī | ||
Here it is, actually first drawn on paper, then created in a WYSIWYG HTML editor and then converted to wiki. I had to combine two table styles -- which I preferred to creating a brand new one -- to make it reasonably readable; the box grid and different shadings did wonders compared to applying only either one of the two styles! There is still a small rendering bug in that the gridline under the heading box is cut off. I'm afraid we'll have to live with that ATM.
