Evolution of Resnish: view article

In this stage, the language was believed to be to be a rather conservative High German dialect, keeping the five cases, nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, and instrumental. It also had three numbers, singular, dual and plural. It begun its divergence in around 400 AD, when a large amount of Resnish people left the mainland and moved to modern-day Resnais.

The th => d sound change was only partially complete, so many words in resnish still have the dental fricative whilst others don't. For example "de" versus "thïze".

Gender was also shown fully in the articles, giving us these articles:

Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Dual	Plural
Nominative	der, de	diu	daz	diu	dii
Accusative	den	dii	daz	dii	dii
Dative	dem, demu	der	daz, dem	denus	den
Genitive	des	der	dez	diir	diir
Instrumental	deum	der, deru	dem, deum	denu	den

[edit] [top]Early Middle Resnish

A major sound shift known as the Middle Resnish Sound Shift marks this new era. It changes many voiced constanants into unvoiced, as well as other changes. Here are them below:

b => p: "prïngen" vs. high German "bringen"

g => k: "kïwen" vs. English "to give"

d => t: "Take" vs. English "day"

s => sc: "sctäben" vs. English "to starve"

b => w: "hawen" vs. German "haben"

Another anomaly arose, that Resnish was using the former Dual number for three as well, making it into a pausal which is what it is today.

Finally, sound shifts as well as erosion of -u at the end of many articles created simplification for the article over the course of the few centuries, and by 1100, this was the declencion of the definite article:

Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Pausal	Plural
Nominative	de	diu	da	dï	dï
Accusative	den	dïn	da	dïn	dï
Dative	dem	der	dem	dïm	dïm
Genitive	des	dïs	daz	dïs	dïr
Instrumental	dem	dïm	dem	dïm	dïn

[edit] [top]Late Middle Resnish

Another major change happened after 1500 AD, when the pausal forms of pronouns and verb declensions were lost in the first and second person, instead merging with the plural. Today, these forms are still merged. The pausal also no longer showed gender of the pronoun, which gives us this table:

Red: lost during middle Resnish
Blue: lost later on in the evolution.

Note: the second person underwent a different change. Instead of the pausal dissappearing, the singular form dissappeared and the pausal form took the singular form. This is also related to what happened in English.

Number	1st Person	2nd Person	3rd Person
Singular	isc	thisc	er/scin/da
Pausal	wïr	ju	ers/scis/ins
Plural	wisc	ïr	inz

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