[someone should make a realistic version of sleeping beauty, the original story was traced back to a late 10th century, so late old English, so if she fell asleep, she'd be so confused with middle English " "Hƿæt secge ġē mē?" well, if it were realistic she'd be DEAD unless it's like a coma when they feed you during it., and the title could be spelt phonetically in old English orthography "Rēpunsoll" something like [riːpunsul] or [riːpunsol] since uh sounds weren't standard, hence the approximation of [riːponsol] and it'd most likely be a loan word still.--wait, no, wrong story, let's change the name to "Þornrōse" wel, even if she was well kept, muscle movements, feeding, hydration, she'd still die since o one can survive like ~400 years? I mean, there was that one babay that was preserved for ~30 years then born, but they would not be able to do that, espically without the techiolggy, if we push aside the age thing, how would she even get the water/food/muscle movement? maybe the whole kingdom didn't fall into ruin, and there were determined knights that didn't fall into slumber and reproduced, they'd might have a cult/prochpey thing about when the princess wakes upp depending if the knights are that loyal. realistically, the knights would have to trade, so even if they tried to be conservative with their language middle English(aka, including those French and just some evolved vocab) loan words would still come through. examples of them trying to withold language growth but scumb to language evolution: evolutions with updated spellings--if they change spellings that is. [kweːn] > [kwe̝ːn] > [kwi̠ːn] > [kwɨːn] cw(i with macron) n [ˈlæːv.dɪ.jə] > [læːvdɪ̯jə] > [læ:vdjə] > [læv.ɟ̺ˑə] or [læv.ɟ̪ˑə] læfdgga gē [jeː] > [je̝ː] > [ji̞ː] > [jï] > [jɨ] ge/y(e with macron) and ēow [[eːow] > [e̝ːow] > [jiːɑw] > [ji.ɒ] > [ji̯.ɒ] > [jɒ] spelt ga/ya [θuː] > [ðu] or [du] ðu as main spelling [ɛrt] > [ərt] > [ərt] > [əɾt] errt [eon̯m] > [eom] > [eo̯m] > [ejm] > [e̹̝jm] > [y̞jm] > [yːm] ȳm/eom [ɪs] > [ɪz] > [ɛ̯z] is/ez [meː] just turns into [mïː], m(e with macron) sind [sɪnd] > [sɪnd] > [sɪ̈nd] > [sɪ̈nt] sint/sind [ɪç] stays as [iç] before vowels, and before consonants: [iː] so ic/i now, h(wynn)æt /hʍæt/, only shift changes to [ʍɔt]/[ʍæt] since "v" was interchangable with u/v. they scrapped wynn in more causal writng. so hvæt. [ˈbeo̯n] > ['be(o̯)n] > [be̝ːn] > [biːn] > [bin] > [bi̠n] > [bïn] bīn this simply means "to be", "to exist" so need in saying "tu bīn" if they translate something from shakespeare in the future [ˈsed͡ʒːe] > [sed͡ʒːə] > [sed͡ʒ] > [sed͡ʑ] secġ so, what they'd respond with: "..hvæt ga secġ sint to vȳ?" [toː] > [tu](from influence), so tu/to wē [weː] > [we̝ː] > [wi̞ː] > [wyː] vȳ like, vowel mutation, I think I modlded this correctly:: [i] > [y] ___{w, j} and if the prince came "Hwat beþ ȝe, an Almain? Hwat is iclosed in ȝond castelel?"this simply means "to be", "to exist" so need in saying "to bīn" if they translate. [ne], based off my other shifts, [ni]/[nï̹] Cnāwan [ˈknɑː.wɑn] > [gnɑː.wɑn] > [gnɑ.wɒn] > (it'd probably be here in the story: [ɲɑwɒn] > [nəwɶ̞̜n] > [nwɒ̹n] > [nɒn] all spellings so far, I GUESS: gnwan,to, bīn,vȳ, nīn,sint, hvæt, secġ, iz/ez, [iç] = iḣ, and [i] = i, kwīn, ġa, ġe,læfġġa. I think that's all. AND-- yes, ḣ is a new letter-- I mean, obvoiously, but it stands for [ç], since they thought if "ġ" is /j/, they put an overdot on h, therefore ḣ meaning [ç]. some words they borrowed from early middle english via trade: [beːf], [ˈbaːkɔn], [ˈsau̯sə], [fɾyːt] (fire_emoji) (fire_emoji). [ɑːθ] > [æːθ] > [æθ] > [æð] > [að] að, now means something like "a vow one must contend to"[ˈwɑ.kɑn] when reffering to the princess, it's [[ˈwæ.kɑn], pretty perserved.[ˈwɑ.kɑn] > [wɒ.kɑn] > [wɶkæn] > [wɶkɛn] > [wœkɪ̈n] > [wœkwɪ̈n] > [wœk͜wʏn] spelt wakan/wœken, (in-story, it'd be around [wɶkɛn] > and [wœkɪ̈n]) used exactly like "awaken" ,it's funny that it's bascially [weɪ.kɪŋ] waking and you can really really see that in the "wœken" spelling. Oð [oð], nothing happens.might change to [od̪] but that'd be rare. swerie [ˈswiere] > [swi̯ere] > [sweɾe] > [sweɾə] > [sweɾ] swer, now meaning a little to "to swear an oath". also, but you can tell the(im assunming) doer suffix (-[ɑn]) usally fades to (-[n]), so "to swear" would be [sweɾʌn] sweran in-story. one important rule that I like: Iḣ is used before vowels, and i [i] is used before consonants unless consonants like [s], or [z] this is probably what she'd try to say: Hwā eart þū? [hʍɑːeart θuː] but probably say something more like [h͢ːa͉ː eːɹ̠̯͉ʷ n͉ʉ͉] [ˈwæ.ter] > [wæ.teːr] > [wɒ.te̝ːr] > [wɒ.ɾir] > [wɒ.ɾyr] > [wɒɾyɾ] > [wɒɾyr] > [wɒl̪yr] waryr/wadyr hiːre] > [hire] > [hirə] > [hjir] > [çi˞] > [çɝ̝] ḣer/ḣīr
if I took the aesthetic of early middle English reports(like the whimsy and joy I was talking about), this is probably what the prince would write out(well, in early middle English, after all) , here's what he'd actually write: ""In þre deepeste dales of Europe, I fānd wunderliche and mære hēȝe tūras of an ǣr-wæs cynerīce. Þǣr-bī, cnīhtes libbeþ hēore līf, and hīe healdeþ an i-gret and hāliȝ religioun of an ‘cwēn’. Spoken is þǣr a lēode þæt nān ne maȝen understonden, mid fēawe wōrdes of cūþnesse. I lēfe hīe bēoþ i-writen nēah Almænisce and Englisce: ih, woeken, ez... and swīþe mēre."" oh yeah, to explain, out in the world, it's early middle English, hence the spelling in the report, and the dialect is based off sleeping beauty, the queen fell asleep and the unsaleep knights take care of her? so if that explains the semantic shifts, ~400 yrs, so, late old English > early/middle middle English timeline.looking at the phongology. in jounralist's ear iḣ sounds like ich and ez sounds like es, and wœken sounds like waking/wakin', which is what it means! [hiːre] > [hire] > [hirə] > [hjir] > [çi˞] > [çɝ̝] ḣer/ḣīrhēo [heːo] > [he̝ːo̯] > [hio̯] > [hiro] > [hirə] > [hir] hīra/hīr(r inserted to match [hirə]) "i ne swerun ne" ne as /ni/ and "ḣer wœken ne "
