Proto-Thirean

Proto-Thirēan is the earliest common ancestor of the Thirēan languages.

Summary
Proto-Thirēan was last spoken roughly 6000 years before the modern era, shortly before a group of Thirēans migrated to the Central Regions. This migration would lead to the branching of the Thirēan language family.

Phonotactics
Proto-Thirēan has been described as having a maximum syllable shape of CVC, with C presumably standing for any of the language’s twenty-one consonants, and V being any of sixteen vowels. It is also possible that, like Proto-Oqolaawak, the glottal stop was not phonemic word-initially. Not much else has been specified.

While some phonological changes did occur between Proto-Thirēan and Ancient Edun (including, notably, the loss of the glottal stop), the phonological constraints implied by the Ancient Edun syllabary may offer some insight into the phonotactics of Proto-Thirēan. Specifically, uvular consonants were forbidden from preceding front vowels, and prenasalized stops could not serve as syllable codas.

Lexicon
Nouns (forms shown may have developed later on):


 * aisse: stomach
 * khani: back, rear
 * kihet: foot

Adjectives:


 * khiikka: enormous

Verbs:


 * əhlüsütuu: to chill, become cold
 * kita: to eat
 * khuna: to leave, depart
 * ndeu: to build, put together
 * ndikhira: to carry, hold
 * nükhisi: to beg, plea
 * ootiqe: to go to, approach
 * teəqh: to have, take

Verbs (presumed):


 * ake: to have
 * ani: to be
 * ihoo: to owe
 * kata: to finish
 * otaa: to sit
 * saao: to live

Particles:


 * alo: interrogative
 * ma: optative
 * phüe: necessitive
 * ta: negative
 * thə: potential