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sano wrote:next: matter; thing; item

Antico Meìḵoda:

peùnano: [ˈpe̯u.na.nɔ] matter, substance (from peno "soil, Earth" + suff. -an-)

eddos̱o: [ˈɛd.dɔ.ʃɔ] material substance (from eddoù "to emanate, exhale" + suff. -os̱- "nomen rei actae")

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next word: sunbreak What does that mean? Dictionary.com thinks it's an architectural feature, some other sources think it's a "burst of sunlight", and Wikipedia is just plain confused. Sunbreak: "a projection from the side of a building for intercepting part of the sunlight falling upon the adjacen...

While I've got all the linguistics under control (or at least I think so), I'm having trouble shaping the families into my conworld. A few precise questions: 1) At which rate do new languages split off from their mother-language? To put a bit of context, it's a proto-language, not written, spoken b...

to rot: krunar [kruːnar] = to divide into parts, to chop, to rot

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