Wiktionary talk:About Old Czech

Vowel changes
I've been working on the Old Czech declension modules and I would appreciate advice.

I can make the declension templates without mentioning any vowel shifts. But that wouldn't show all attested forms. And for example, these two vowel shifts were already sometimes prevalent.

Soft cons + u > iu > i (všu > všiu > vši; ľudie > liudie > lidie, zemʼu > zemiu > zemi)

Soft cons + ú > iú > í (róžú > róžiú > róží; zďú > zdiú > zdí)

For example, I haven't found any example of "róžu" in literature, but I have found 6 books with accusative "róži". But it seems weird to me just to mention those two changes as the other ones are sometimes also found in Old Czech books although they weren't so common yet.

Do you think I should put in only those original vowels, which are on this page https://ridics.ujc.cas.cz/nlp/patterns/index.html?lang=en? The reader could possibly look up those vowel shifts somewhere in "Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation" or something like that.

And I'd like to ask as well which colours I should choose. It seems Slavic languages use the blue colour, does it represent something? I will probably use the lighter ones so that the Old Czech terms aren't confused with the Czech ones.Zhnka (talk) 10:35, 9 July 2023 (UTC)