DICTIONARY OF REVIVED PRUSSIAN:

As urban culture spread, terms for appartment conveniences were introduced.
How could the word for ‘sink’ be created? A sink is something for pouring out wash
water into the water supply. The Germans have created Ausguss, the Latvians –
izlietne, and the Poles – zlew. An independent Prussian analogue should be NPr.
izlija.
In the beginning of the aviation era, the Prussians had to create the word for
‘airplane’. One of the first words of their neighbors Lithuanians was “air-ship”
(orlaivis). This model also suited for the Prussians: NPr. winalaîwan (the word NPr.
neutr. laîwan ‘ship’ has been reconstructed first on the basis of East-Baltic neutr.
*laivan, cf. Lith. masc. laivas, but Latv. fem. laiva, secondly, as a reminiscence of
the same word in Gothic, neutr. hlaiw: Old Prussian demostrates traces of contacts
between Common Prussian and Gothic).
A New Prussian word for the post-envelope NPr. zûrbrukis is a combination of
semantic loaning with own derivational model. The second component of this
compound corresponds to the second component of the German compound Um-schlag.
As for the first component zur-, it is taken from the word OPr. Surturs E 326 [zûrturs]
‘cover of the mill-wheel’. All these words are no less authentically Prussian, as those
attested in old texts.
14. The main shortcoming
The main shortcoming is that in many instances the accent is not clear and is defined
by volition. Of course, main principles persist. The Prussian accent is mobile and
melodic, i.e. it is a syllable accent: an acute or a circumflex one in long syllables (or
on the second or on the first component of the diphthong respectively) but a simple
dynamic one in short syllables. Accentuation of the 3 rd Catechism shows that the
Prussian accent was of the Latvian (or Slavic, Greek, not Lithuanian) type. Whether
an accent paradigm is mobile or not depends mostly on the root. In many instances,
the same roots attest the same Indoeuropean accent in Baltic and in Slavic. A broken
tone in Latvian points to acute in a corresponding Prussian word, of course. There
are cases of the metatony in which the accent is not clear before the purpose of the
metatony is defined. In long syllables, metatony usually converts the original acute
tone into secondary circumflex tone in Lithuanian and in Latvian, although there are
a number of exceptions. Verbs with the suffix -in- create a special problem. So far,
there has been no specific investigation of the Prussian accent. In most cases, new
Prussian words are provided with an accent mechanically taken from Latvian and
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