zompist bboard

I figured I'd resurrect this thread rather than start a new one, seeing as there's some nice stuff here. This is the Icastrian flag: the Árumoahalez ([ˈaːɾʊˌmoaˌhaləs]), the Sun Wheel Flag. aarumoahalez.png The green field represents the old-growth forests which cover much of Icastria, and which hol...

Icastrian Five points: - postnominal relative clauses with inflected, resumptive relative pronouns (e.g. English "who" vs. "whose") - a periphrastic perfect formed with 'have' plus a passive participle (e.g. English "I have said") - there is a periphrastic perfect, but it's formed with "be" plus an...

Nice work. Depending on how much work you want to do to reach perfection, you can spend countless nights weeding out all the layers of IE loans. A particular one that jumped to my eyes is ja which in reality is a Germanic loan into Finnic. That will definitely be an ongoing sub-project - it's hard ...

I derived the letter shapes (at least the majuscules) directly from Phoenician, but I may have overplayed the "coincidental similarity/convergent evolution" card. On the other hand, Phoenician letters are easy to write and most of them have some obvious directions to evolve in; IMO it's not inconcei...

Okay, one more thing for tonight. Numerals The numerals in the Icastrian alphabet are taken from the Icastrian names of the numbers. 0 - Ѳ for ℓŷstɛ thûste [θyːʃtə] (the name for zero is derived from thûs "empty") 1 - Ƶ for ɟoƕtɛ jokte [joktə] 2 - H for haƕtɛ hakte [haktə] 3 - U for uıstɛ viste [ʋɪʃ...

Orthography • Kirjutaškuuvo • Kıpɟytaṡƕyyuo [/size] Turo has no official orthography, and may be written in a phonetic "descriptive" orthography (outlined above), an "expressive" Icastrian-based orthography, or some mixture of the two; indeed, only Icastrian officials and the most educated Turo wri...

Phonology • Äänkuuvo • Ããvƕyyuo [/size] Vowels short /i y u e ø o æ ɑ/ <i ü u e ö o ä a> long /i: y: u: e: ø: o: æ: ɑ:/ <ii üü uu ee öö oo ää aa> Turo has a characteristic Finnic vowel harmony system. The front vowels /æ ø y/ and the back vowels /ɑ o u/ cannot coexist in the same word, compounds an...

Turo is something I've been quietly working on for a while now, and it's a concept I don't think I've seen before: an a posteriori language with an a priori superstratum. This thread will not be a well-structured grammar of Turo, just a place where I'll keep track of linguistic and cultural notes an...

Izambri wrote:Next: slate (rock)

Icastrian: keytonost ['keɪtonost] "slate, shale"
etymology: keyto "layer, stratum" + nost "rock, stone"

next: lobster (or the most similar animal in your conworld)

berízíu (the state of being only very slightly in the wrong and not being able to stop worrying about a problem everyone else has probably already forgotten about.) This is my fucking life . Next: hypnagogia Icastrian: moestanámasot [ˈmoɪstaˌnaːmasot] etymology: moesta - "fall asleep" (from moia - ...

Just woke up from this and I don't know what the fuck. I was in Portland hanging out with Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock. We went into a very hipstery cookie boutique because Liz wanted to, and for some reason I started vividly remembering being 15 and fooling around sexually with my best f...

din wrote:next: bookmark

Icastrian: kaedaistorpo [ˈkaɪðaʃˌtor̥po]
etymology: kaedais "book" + torpo "post, pole," by analogy with ságtorpo "road-post," which is a marker on the side of the road so travellers can still find their way if the road has been washed or snowed out

Next: equilibrium

Om stolja. Se ó guha. An irtu stipta firu ais a fá stipta tuga ais lon. [om ˈstolja - ʃoː ˈgʊɦa - an ˈɪrtʊ ʃtɪpta ˈfɪɾʊ aʃ a ˈfaː ʃtɪpta ˈtʊɣʷa aʃ ˈlon] I'm sick. It sucks. My body feels light and my head feels heavy and full. Para hasu tige jaga ígiasortot ajarótarvike ais oajesüldarvike. Jom irro...

Next word: Database Icastrian: túvárfold [ˈtuːʋaːr̥fold] "database, dataset" etymology: portmanteau(?) of túfold "data, information" ( tú - "know" + - fold indicating a collection of things of a type) + várfold "store, stock, inventory" ( vár "goods, wares, merchandise" + - fold ) Next: theorem

CatDoom wrote: Next word: loneliness

Icastrian: joktelykaismath [ˈjoktələkaʃmaː], [ˈjoktələkaʃmaθ]
etymology: joktelykais "lone, solitary, lonely" (jokte "one" + -lykais indicating characteristics or possession) + -math, a nominalizer of states and instances

Next: to exile

Ni slítám hintais izkerot kara tám olas 14 tágünas (12 tágün fí). Nua izkerid jót kerzha kesta már. Ikaistari ó nua márrak-kestó izker; se ó olas 2 tágünas. [nɪ ˌʃliːtaːm ˌhɪntaʃ ˈɪskəɾot kaɾa taːm olas ˈtaŋgəɾaʃ ˌtaːɣʷʏnas - ˈhaktəɾaʃ ˌtaːɣʷʏn ˈfiː - nʊa ɪskəɾɪd ˈjoːt ˌkɛrza ˌkɛʃta ˈmaːr̥ - ˈɪkaʃt...

mappy.png The Kroh people of Kroh Island are a secretive and deeply superstitious hunter-gatherer society. They are divided among seventeen tribes, each of which utterly despises all the others, and they have no economic activity to speak of, though Kroh Island is fantastically rich in natural reso...

nkʷɔ þa çɛ sɛjhahu mɒjnɒɸɒs kʰʌnrʌŋʌsŋʌ kʰʌ ançɛtɰʌwŋʌ. How goes your* conlang creation? *Plural. Ím ó tachtasut kotát sest a kanelykais sottog jál stiám iste, karamine se tá. [ˈiːm oː ˌtaxtasʊt ˈkotaːt ʃɛʃt a ˌkanələkaʃ ˌsottox ˌjaːl ˌʃtaːm ˌɪʃte ˈkaɾaˌmɪne ʃə taː.] NEG-1SG be.CONNEG do-PAST.ACT.P...

masako wrote:next: market place; market; supermarket

Icastrian: siolkarvik [ˈʃolkarʋɪk]
etymology: siolk- "trade, deal in, buy and sell" + arvik "gathering place, meeting place" (from arva- "gather, meet, come together," from arva "crowd")

Next: statistics

Linguifex wrote:Next: isolationism

Icastrian: intéustamathasarja [ˈɪntʃˌeːʊstamahaˌsaɾja]
etymology: inte "self" + éustamath "sufficiency" (from éusta- "suffice," from éu "enough, sufficient") + sarja "policy"

Next: precedent

All I seem to dream about lately is plane crashes. I don't know why.

next: domestic; internal (to a country); civil Icastrian: ígiaormátalais [ˈiːjjaˌormaːtalaʃ] "domestic, internal; subject, denizen" etymology: ígia - "in" + ormát "country, state" + - lais denoting origin or affiliation cf. alormátalais "foreign, foreigner" ( al - "out") kalykalaisi [ˈkaləkalaʃɪ] "...

This stuck out to me too while playing that game. It's pretty clearly a retroflex [ɻ] rather than an alveolar [ɹ], which made me think Eastern Mohawk has /ɽ/ [ɻ], at least nowadays - I very much doubt they tried to reconstruct 18th century Mohawk phonology; it's not like us palefaces would know the ...

din wrote:next: Uvula

Icastrian:
haele [ˈhaɪle]
etymology: from haela- "hang"

Haele is a general term for things that hang from a ceiling or overhang. It can also mean "icicle" or "stalactite" (also híhaele "ice-haele" and nosthaele "rock-haele" respectively).

Next: tweezers

Next: To take revenge on the wrong party thinking it is the right one Icastrian: tachtais Maronalaisku [taxtaʃ ˈmaɾonalaʃkʊ] do-INF Maronalais-ESS To do a Maronalais Maronalais is the protagonist of the tragedy The House of Jardey ( Ar Jardeya tere ) by Ilona Sarmath (1692-1761), a female playwrigh...