Category talk:Proto-Brythonic language
Classification
[edit]What stage of British Celtic are we classifying as Proto-Brythonic? The last stage from which they split? This would be after loss of word-final syllables, yes? Or from earlier stages which still included cases and so on? Anglom (talk) 01:50, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Lenition of s-/h-, st-/s(s)-
[edit]I'm unsure how to list these reconstructions. The Brythonic languages mostly generalized h- from lenited s-, but not completely: Welsh hedd (“peace, calm”), but also sedd (“seat”), both < PC *sed-; Brythonic *seiθ (“seven”) (not **heiθ) < PC *sextam.
The pair st-, s(s)- are more random in their generalizations, which probably means it postdates the split, cf. Welsh safn (“mouth, jaws”), Breton staoñ (“palate”) < PC *stamnā.
Should we list them as found, both *heð and *seð; *saμn and *staμn; or list them under the unlenited form, even if the lenited form was generalized/unlenited form is unattested? Anglom (talk) 04:32, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Transcription of long against short consonants
[edit]I've been thinking about changing the way we transcribe long versus short consonants, since we could more or less do away with orthographical gemination if we instead transcribe lenited -r-, -l- and -n- differently. So, instead of *ammaɨθ, we'd have *amaɨθ, and *prenn would become *pren, but say *gal and *gwir would now be spelled *gal̆ and *gwir̆, or some variant. In every other aspect I think, consonant length is more or less context based. Anglom (talk) 23:19, 22 September 2016 (UTC)