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Lexember 02. Share Your Word for the Day!
It's that time of year when conlangers challenge ourselves to create one new word a day. Feel free to share and link to your words in this and the following Lexember posts. :D Additional etymologcial or explanatory notes encouraged.




2nd Khangaþyagon word katost: (n) billhook (v) prune, pollard katoston: pruning
(I started writing this before midnight so I'm going to pretend that counts. PS don't expect my grammar to make too much sense because I'm in the make it up as you go along stage.)
Gerenem Loose, open, failed. Generally a negative term. It would not be associated with relaxation, for example.
Ap a gerenem era et tala si. They were loose to their mother. I.E., they're a momma's child.
Gerenemsine chel tul, andegestalkr In a moment of failure, I went berserk.
Gerenem bro chan i si o Don't become too accommodating.
Its "child" terms in the corrupted languages:
Missaknal - Gilniem. In Missaknal the term is generally considered positive, which can cause issues in communication.
Fael Mo Tuk - Gal Eam
Sofik - [Lost and replaced with the Shuuli derivative Hsuhi]
Cal Rea - Kar Reh Nam
It can be used in rather different ways, I enjoy that. And I love that you keep figuring out what it turns into in the daughter languages! (Why do you call them "corrupted", by the way, if you don't mind my asking?)
Amandet Sol, which is what this language is called, is the language of the gods. It's what's used by the oldest beings to communicate with each other, and is the language used by mortals to communicate with their dieties. There are a few cultures that consider a strict adherence to the old speech to be a moral imperative, for a number of reasons, so they regard any evolution in the language to be a corruption.
Fun. I love words like this!
/a:gi/ • parent or aunt/uncle, whether related biologically or simply acting in that relationship
a noun of direct address with undecided orthography for the long vowel
Language: Akachenti
I like that it can be used both for parent and for aunt/uncle!
Is it only used for direct address, sort of like "Mum" and "Dad"? Do you use other words for referring to the kinship relationships in question?
It is only used for direct address, just like Mom and Dad. I tried to suss out the formal words for each kinship relationship and got nowhere but a frustrating headbang on the wall of this language. Argh! But before the end of the month, I hope to get something more, or some of the related words.
ETA: come to think of it, casual reference to that person might go something like "my aagi" (and possession is just interesting enough, I'm not going to pretend I can write it correctly in Akachenti just yet), but as a rule, that's a new construction and so a new "word".
Very easy for a baby to pronounce, haha! Definitely a believable word for aunt.
Thanks!
My word for today is for the language Nahul: tedeth, meaning 'star'.
The stress is on the last syllable, as always in Nahul. The /th/ spelling indicates aspirated /t/. Aspirated and unaspirated stops are discrete phonemes in this language. So here you have all three dental stops in the language: voiced /d/, unvoiced and unaspirated /t/, and unvoiced and aspirated /th/. (Although that's not why I came up with it - I realised it after the fact.)
The word belongs to Class III of the language's three noun classes or grammatical genders. This is the class for most inanimate nouns ending with a consonant, though there's probably more to the categorisation than that.
The accusative form is tedethat, the genitive is tedethet. Definiteness is not formally expressed. The plural is phitedeth. Again, the /ph/ spelling indicates an aspirated /p/. In plural accusative and plural genitive the forms are, logically enough, phitedethat and phitedethet. In all forms the stress remains on the last syllable.
Love, love, love this and all the contrasts descriptions. I always develop phonology by just using/creating the language, then analyze it to figure out what I've done, so I get this so much.
... well, I had no idea Lexember was a thing, but by sheer coincidence I started thinking about conlanging and yesterday decided to start trying to throw something new (and super simple) together. Apparently my timing is really good!
Except my vocabulary is incredibly tiny right now. I guess my word of the day can be... 'mag', meaning 'to eat'. It's about the only verb I have so far.
I love those kinds of coincidences! :D
That's a very good early word to have! :D Do you know yet how it's conjugated, if it's conjugated at all that is?
I do not know yet! I'm torn between wanting to do something interesting and fun with conjugations and tenses and stuff, and 'but wait, I was just going to throw a really simple thing together for fun...'
Ahh, I know that feeling!
+1
You should also post on /glossopoeia. We're steadily growing.
I understand it's for complete languages though, not conlangs in progress.
It is for all languages, but complete is preferred.
Good to know. Not what the mod told me when I asked, but oh well.
I'm trying to aim for a higher quality community, so even just theory-crafting about glossopoeia is acceptable.
That sounds very intimidating. I don't know if any of my comments would pass muster as being of a high enough quality.