Carrish

Currently a work in progress.

Classification and Dialects
Carrish is a language spoken in Carriland by 11.4 million native speakers, or 77% of its inhabitants and by roughly 16 million native speakers worldwide. Carriland is an island to the east of England in the North Sea.

The language was introduced to the island in the late 11th century by Norman invaders, which was previously inhabited by speakers of Old Norse. As the Old Norman dialects gained dominance, they gradually merged and were influenced by the Old Norse substratum, which gave rise to the development of Old Carrish, just as the ethnic French settlers and indigenous ethnic Norse intermingled to give rise the new Carrish people and ethnicity. Carrish continued to develop in isolation from the other Norman and Oïl languages with continuing Norse and Dutch influence, as Anglo-Norman died out in England and the other Norman languages developed in and near France with growing influence from Parisian French.

Its family tree can be traced as Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Western, Gallo-Romance, Oïl, Norman, Carrish.

Nouns
Carrish nouns possess grammatical gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural). In singular gender is entirely unmarked and thus gender usually cannot be determined in singular without prior knowledge. However, in plural, masculine and feminine nouns are distinguished, with regular masculine nouns being pluralized by -s and regular feminine nouns being pluralized by -es. Irregular nouns are inflected differently: masculine nouns ending in -z are inflected by adding -e (eg: fitz, pl. fitze), those ending in -s are inflected by adding -se (eg: urs, pl. ursse), feminine nouns ending in a vowel other than e are inflected with -ës (eg: nu, pl. nuës), and nouns of either gender ending with -e are inflected by simply adding -s (eg: m. aage, aages, f. oue, oues).

Other than personal pronouns, Carrish nouns are not inflected for any other grammatical category other than gender and number.

Lexicon
Abandon- abandune

Ability- abletie

Able- able

After- aprés

Afraid- afraie

Age- age

Air- air

Alphabet- abecedee

Anger- angst

Angry- angstus

Ancient- aunkyn

Ankle- kevil

Apple- pom

April- averil

Arm- bras

Attire- cledtyn

August- Aust

Azure- blœwet

Bad- mal

Bait- bait

Back- dos

Back away- wintche

Barter- barate

Battle- battail

Be- este

Be born- naiste

Be late- retarde

Beak- bek

Bear- urs

Beer- byr, œl

Belly- pauntch, mague

Bile- fyl

Bird- wisel

Bitch- put

Bishop- evesk

Black- nair

Blouse- blus

Blue- blœw

Boil- bruille

Bone- os

Book- liver

Bound- bund

Brake(n)- haltur

Brake(v)- halte

Branch- brauntch

Bread- pain

Breakfast- disner

Breast- sain

Brother- frere

Broke- broke

Broker- broker

Bronze- bronz

Brown- brun

Buck- cerf

Bucket- buket

Bunny- laperel

Bush- busket

Butter- bœr

Cabbage- cabbetch

Cake- wastel

Candle- candel

Canvas- caneves

Captain- keften

Capture- saise

Carrish- Carries

Carrot- carot

Catch- catche

Cater- acate

Cattle- catel

Call- calle

Cauldron- caudren

Causeway- cautchie

Centimeter- centimeter

Challenge- chalenge

Chance- caunz

Change- caunge

Charge- carge

Cheese- fromage, ost

Cherry- cherys

Chest- pitz

Chew- masche

Chicken- pullet

Cliff- nes

Clothe- clede, veste

Cloud- nu

Coin- quin

Cold- fraid

Color- culur

Come- vene

Complete- plentie

Conceive- relade, aviee

Cook- parle, quie

Cotton- coten

Count- cunte

Courage- curage

Court- curt

Crescent- cressaunt

Cross- cruis

Crow- corbel

Cry- críe

Cubic- cubik

Currant-

Dad- fefé

Dang- syt, mitte

Daughter- fil

Day- jur

Dead- mort

Death- mort

Delay- delaie

December- December

Dessert- dusset

Devil- dybel

Diamond- dymaunt

Dictionary- vervliver

Dinner- festel

Do- fe

Doe- bitch

Dough- past

Down- dun

Drink (n)- bever

Drink (v)- baie

Duke- duk

Dune- myl

Dune grass- melgrœs

Dungeon- dongen

Ear- orail

Earth- Ter

East- est

Eat- maunge

Embezzle- embesile

England- Angleter

English- Anglies

Eraser- frottur

Ewe- oue

Except- sauf

Eye- œy

Faith- fai

Fall- tumbe

Father- pere

Fashion- fetchen

Fast- rade

February- feverer

Feed (n)- abesche, paiste

Few- pui

Fig- fig

Finch- fink

Finger- dait

Fire- fœ

Flock- floket

Flower- flur

Four- faren

Foot- py

Foreigner- waul

For- pur

Fork- furk

Fox- fus

France- Fraunz

Freeze- gele

French- Fraunzies

Fruit- fruit

Fuck- fute

Furious- furys

Fury- furie

Garden- garden

German- Dytch

Germany- Dytchie

Give drink to- abevere

Glutton- gluten

Go- alle

Goat- kever

God- Dy

Gold- or

Good- bun

Goose- ganz, wi, auk

Gray- gris

Green- vert

Grief- gryf

Grow- craiste

Guarantee- warantie

Guardian- wardyn

Guide- wide

Hand- main

Hard- dur

Hare- lever

Hatchet- hatchet

Haul- hale

Have- have

Head- kyf

Heart- cœr

Hello- bunjur

Hi- hee

Hide a possession- embusche

High- haut

Hip- hauntch

Horse- keval

Host- hoste

Hot- caud

House- kes

Humid- muker

Hunger- faim

Hungry- affaime

Hurry- haste

If- se

Itch- yke

Indigo- indik

Infant- enfant

Inside- daunz

Iron (n)-

Iron (v)- ferre

Islet- hommet

January- Genever

Journey- jurne

Joy- jui

Joyous- juius

Judge- juge

July- Juillet

June- Juin

Kennel- kennel

King- rai

Knee- genu

Knock down- abate

Lamb- agnel

Late- tardif

Leg- gamb

Lemon- citren

Library- librarie

Life- vie

Light- lumyr

Lilac- lilak

Lime green- vertet

Lion- lyn

Liver- faie

Lord- munhar

Lunch- frocost

Lung- pumen

Madam- madem

Maid- bunnitch

Make thirsty- tœrste

Man- omme

Mansion- maisen

March- Martch

Marten- martren

May- Mai

Meal- repast

Mercy- merce

Milk- lait

Mitten- miten

Mister- munsyr

Mother- mere

Mom- memé

Monday- mercrede

Moon- lun

Morning- main

Morsel- morsel

Mound- haug

Mouth- buk

Mug- mug

Mutton- muten

Navel- nombril

Neck- cu

New- nœf

Night- nuit

No- ne

Nose- nes

Nostril- nesel

Note- not

Nothing- nitz

North- nord

Norman- Normaund

November- November

October- Witover

Oil- wille

Orange- orenge

Other- auter

Oyster- wister

Peanut- Gernot

Pear- pair

Pee (n)- pis

Pee (v)- pisse

Piece- styke

Pig- pork

Pink- ros

Plank- plank

Please- s’il vus plaist

Please (v)- plaise

Pocket- puket

Poor- pur

Pork- pork

Potato- patatte

Poultry- puletrie

Pound- liver

Prayer- praier

Pregnant- lade

Prince- prinz

Profound- profund

Provençal- Provenzal

Pummel- abattre

Puppy- cau

Purple- purper

Rabbit- conel

Rain (n)- pluie

Rain (v)-pluve

Ram- ram

Read- lie

Red- ruge

Remain- reste

Return- verte

Ribbon- ryben

Rich- ritch

Rise- munte

Roast- rost

Rock- rok

Romance- Romanz

Round- rund

Rub- frotte

Rude- rude

Rush- rusche

Rust- rust

Sad- triste

Sand- gryt, sabel

Sark- Sarck

Save- sauve

Scare- afraie

Scissors- kisel

Seagull- mauve

September- Setember

Sister- sœr

Silver- argent

Sheep- muten

Shelter- aber

Shit- merd

Short- curt

Shrink- schrinke

Skin- pel

Skull- test

Sky- cyl

Slice (n)-

Slice (v)- mangle

Slow- lent

Snake- slang

Soft- dus

Soften- abunne

Soil- suil

Son- fitz

Sound- sun

Soup- sup

South- sud

Sparrow- passerel

Squirrel- esquirel

Star- estail

Stomach- estomak

Stop- arreste

Strange- estrange

Stun- colle

Sturdy- esturde

Sun- solail

Surplus- bunte

Surprise- estunne

Swallow- glute

Thirst- tœrst

Thirsty- tœrste

Thousand- mille

Thumb- puce

Tiger- tiguer

Toast (n)- tost

Toast (v)- toste

Tomato- tomate

Tomorrow- demain

Tongue- lang

Tooth- dent

Touch- tutche

Town- burg

Trap- wil

Tricky- rus

Troublemaker- baratur

Truth- vertie

Urn- urn

Venison- venesen

Victory- saisyn

Violet- vylet

Vixen- fyxen

Wage- wage

Wait- waite

Wallet- walet

War- wer

Warrior- werryr

Wasp- wesp

Water- iyw

Wear down- fraie

Weasel- wisel

Weight- pund

Well- byn

Welcome- bynvenu

West- west

Wet- muist

White- blaunk

Whore- putyn

William- Willem

Witch- hex

Woman- dam, fem

Womb- usterus

Wood- buis

Word- verv

World- mund

Yellow- gaune

Yes- wil

Example text
We ate mutton and soup for dinner and I cut the cake for dessert.

Nus havuns maunge dœ muten et de la sup pur le festel et Y hai mangle le wastel pur le dusset.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

Nitz n'estait a tai sauf les puis cubiks centimeters daunz ta test.

Water is a boring drink. It's true.

Le iyw est un bever annuius. C'est vrai.

The lumberjacks chopped down fifteen trees today and dragged them into town.

Les buschens hont colle chinze arbers wi et les hont hales en burg.