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Posted byAnonDegreesJonin/conlang-Dec 11, 2016 at 4:07 AM

Lexember 11. Share Your Word for the Day!

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It's that time of year when we 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.

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  • nathrachaDec 11, 2016 at 4:24 PM

    After seeing a few of the other posts from the last few days I thought Lindhina was definitely overdue for a word for 'tea', so now I have one.

    tiza: tea
    gi tieza kor berim: I drink (a cup of) tea

    • AnonEngineerKaitlynnDec 11, 2016 at 4:37 PM

      Oh, lovely! I approve!

      • nathrachaDec 11, 2016 at 4:58 PM

        Every language needs tea-related words!

    • printfogeyDec 11, 2016 at 4:54 PM

      Most excellent!

      So... I remember verbs are last. What do gi and kor do, here? /nosy

      • nathrachaDec 11, 2016 at 4:58 PM

        Thank you! I am a big fan of tea, so I'm surprised I got this far without a word for it tbh :)

        gi is the first-person pronoun, and kor is 'cup'. The sentence is actually literally more like 'I drink a tea-cup', but I figure it works as an idiom - it felt less clumsy and flowed better than kor aa tiza which would be the literal translation of 'cup of tea'.

      • printfogeyDec 11, 2016 at 5:00 PM

        Works fine for me! I should figure out what 'cup' is called in my current main conlangs, too...

  • killerbee13Dec 11, 2016 at 2:04 PM

    Today's words:

    • skan /skan/
      • "and". Well, roughly, anyway, I haven't gotten far enough in the grammar to know how conjunctions will work, but I was building a noun phrase and I needed to combine two things.
    • spal /spal/
      • "sea". The seas taken together would be spalmat of course.

    (I realized that s-clusters were highly neglected. They're the only sort of clusters I have, so I should probably be using them.)

    Now I can form a first draft of the long-form religious title of Ranataṙ, the Blue Aspect:

    • hasmat spalmat ailskantif /has.mat.spal.ma.taɪl.skan.tiɸ/ (/t.s/ can only occur at word boundaries like this)
      • lit. "wind-collective sea-collective abstract-and-D"
      • "The Winds and the Seas"

    The grammar wasn't trivial but in the end I felt that it would be best if "skan" were the head of the noun phrase and therefore placed at the end. As far as I know, "hasmat" and "spalmat" should both be in absolutive [unmarked] case here, and "skan" should get the case marker if it does get one, but maybe actually both internal nouns should get the marker instead of or in addition to "skan". I don't know enough about the underlying tree-structure theory of noun cases to say for sure.

    • printfogeyDec 11, 2016 at 2:20 PM

      Ooh! These are pretty. And I love how the phrase comes out and your explanation!

      This is also highly relevant to my interests right now, as I've just started pondering on what to do with 'and' in Nahul. In other conlangs so far I've used a fairly easy equivalent of the English and Swedish words in question. Maybe it's time to go for something that gets used a little differently...

  • AnonEngineerKaitlynnDec 11, 2016 at 11:12 AM

    As a note to whoever made this post, I literally have every single remaining Lexember post drafted so I can just hit publish in the morning. If you wouldn't mind, I'd rather go ahead and post them please, as the work on them is already done.

    That said,

    gien • [gjɛn] or [gi ɛn] • information gathered by oneself
    noun
    Language: Akachenti

    • printfogeyDec 11, 2016 at 11:21 AM

      Like first-hand evidence? I like it! Brief and elegant.

      (This is the word used for 'you' (2sg nom) in Nahul, by the way! It's a really neat sound, isn't it?)

      • AnonEngineerKaitlynnDec 11, 2016 at 11:22 AM

        Yes, it is! I love that, bumping into Nahul. :D

      • printfogeyDec 11, 2016 at 11:23 AM

        :D It's unavoidable! But I haven't actually used it in a sentence yet, as Nahul is pronoun-drop and I still have way too few verbs, nouns, and... well, everything!

      • AnonEngineerKaitlynnDec 11, 2016 at 11:24 AM

        Understandable. I only know one Akachenti pronoun and I actually don't know what it means: ushar, sometimes without the r. Akachenti makes great use of those vowel object and topic markers to avoid having to spell things out.

  • printfogeyDec 11, 2016 at 10:39 AMΔ

    New Nahul word: tethem [te' tʰem], 'too, also'. I have no idea about the etymology yet. Invariable; can't be inflected. The usage seems relatively uncomplicated so far.

    Zeenatai anchat. - Inan tethem.
    'I like tea.' 'Me, too.'
    Kathach chorel tethem halamat.
    'We're painting the house (and) also the boat.'

    • AnonEngineerKaitlynnDec 11, 2016 at 11:22 AM

      Oooh, what fun. I've only got that word in one of my languages yet, but it's sooo useful. And I love the sound of tethem.

      • printfogeyDec 11, 2016 at 11:27 AM

        In Beldreeni it's supposed to be expressed with the infix -jen-, which is also used for the number 2. But I haven't tried it out more than a couple of times...

      • AnonEngineerKaitlynnDec 11, 2016 at 11:29 AM

        That makes sense: 2 and too. The one I have is chech, which means literally repeat. That's in Vas'hehr.

      • printfogeyDec 11, 2016 at 11:30 AM

        That sounds so cool! Is that the English pronounciation of /ch/?

      • AnonEngineerKaitlynnDec 11, 2016 at 11:33 AM

        Yes. I try to keep my romanizations as straightforward as possible.

      • printfogeyDec 11, 2016 at 11:33 AM

        Great sound!

      • AnonEngineerKaitlynnDec 11, 2016 at 11:36 AM

        Thanks!

  • PeteBleackleyDec 11, 2016 at 4:08 AM

    11th Khangaþyagon word:

    þirras: red squirrel

    • AnonEngineerKaitlynnDec 11, 2016 at 11:23 AM

      Love this! Is it a different word altogether for squirrel in general?

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