docs: update in worldbuilding and vocabulary
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@@ -19,13 +19,15 @@ fusional aspect Old Eittlandic once had. Its grammar now greatly relies
on its syntax as well as on grammatical particules rather than on its
morphology. Lets take the following sentence as an example.
- Barn etar fisk
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Barn etar fisk
barn et-ar fisk
barn et-ar fisk
child.nom eat-3sg fish.acc
child.nom eat-3sg fish.acc
A child is eating a fish
A child is eating a fish
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In this sentence, the word order helps us understand the child is the
subject of the sentence while its subject is /fisk/, although we have no
@@ -33,6 +35,7 @@ information on their number; the sentence could also very well mean
/children are eating fishes/. Unlike in Old Eittlandic where we could
have the following sentences.
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- Barn etar fiska
barn et-ar fiska
@@ -47,29 +50,35 @@ have the following sentences.
fish-pl.acc eat-3sg child.nom
A child is eating fishes
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Both have the same meaning as the Eittlandic sentence. However, the
near-complete (or even complete in Standard Eittlandic) loss of case
marking makes the sentence /fisk barn etar/ much more gruesome.
- Fisk etar barn
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Fisk etar barn
fisk et-ar barn
fisk et-ar barn
fish.nom eat-3sg barn.acc
fish.nom eat-3sg barn.acc
A fish is eating a child
A fish is eating a child
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Eittlandic is a V-2 language, meaning in most cases, finite verbs are
in second position in their clause and may be in first position
interrogative clauses and dependent clauses, as shown below.
- Han talð mér þat kom han hér í gær
interrogative and dependent clauses, as shown below.
han talð mér þat kom han hér í=gær
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Han talð mér þat kom han hér í gær
3sg.m.nom tell-3sg.pret 1sg.dat that come.3sg.pret 3sg.m.nom here yesterday
han talð mér þat kom han hér í=gær
He told me he came here yesterday
3sg.m.nom tell-3sg.pret 1sg.dat that come.3sg.pret 3sg.m.nom here yesterday
He told me he came here yesterday
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Loss of case marking also affected adjectives which share most of
their declensions with nouns. The parts where Eittlandic retains its
@@ -77,3 +86,15 @@ fusional aspect is with verbs, where loss of its words final vowel
had much less impact, as we could see in /barn fisk etar/. In this case,
/etar/ is the third-person singular declension of the verb /et/, a weak
verb.
Eittlandic, as most other germanic languages, tend to compound words
together in order to create new words. The name of the country itself,
/Eittland/, is a good example: the word /eitt/ (neutral of /einn/) used to
mean /lonely/ in Old Eittlandic, while /land/ has the same meaning as in
English, therefore creating a word and place name meaning “lonely
land”. Another common example is the word for “wolf”, /noregsúlf/. While
this word is a compound of /Noreg/ (“Norway”) and /úlf/ (“dog-wolf”), the
word uses an «s» in order to create a relationship between the two
words, defining /úlf/ with /Noreg/. The litteral translation of /noregsúlf/
is therefore /Noways wolf-dog/, though this took on the meaning of
simply “wolf” as Norwegian wolf-dogs are not called /noregsúlf/ at all.