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Lexember 11. Share Your Word for the Day!
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.




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
Oh, lovely! I approve!
Every language needs tea-related words!
Most excellent!
So... I remember verbs are last. What do gi and kor do, here? /nosy
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'.
Works fine for me! I should figure out what 'cup' is called in my current main conlangs, too...
Today's words:
(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:
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.
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...
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
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?)
Yes, it is! I love that, bumping into Nahul. :D
: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!
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.
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.'
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.
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...
That makes sense: 2 and too. The one I have is chech, which means literally repeat. That's in Vas'hehr.
That sounds so cool! Is that the English pronounciation of /ch/?
Yes. I try to keep my romanizations as straightforward as possible.
Great sound!
Thanks!
11th Khangaþyagon word:
þirras: red squirrel
Love this! Is it a different word altogether for squirrel in general?