Perhaps derived from Washington?Astraios wrote:In Lakota too: Wašíčuyapi < wašíču 'white man'. Nobody knows where wašíču really comes from, but I've heard some people say it's from wašíŋ ičú 'he takes (all the) fat' (I think it isn't, though).
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- Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:10 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Genesis in Ojibwe
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7875
Re: Genesis in Ojibwe
- Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:28 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Colours as surnames
- Replies: 56
- Views: 8895
Re: Colours as surnames
Green describes people who lived near the village green.
- Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:50 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Colours as surnames
- Replies: 56
- Views: 8895
Re: Colours as surnames
I've seen some Blues too. There's also Blancs. Never heard of a Pink though
- Sat Jun 11, 2011 1:21 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Invent an Idiom
- Replies: 362
- Views: 78824
Re: Invent an Idiom
Tll-Fusyn: Qos khunshyk talshyk
"The arrowsmith stabs the swordsmith"
Next: "I thought that went without saying"
"The arrowsmith stabs the swordsmith"
Next: "I thought that went without saying"
- Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:45 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Words and expressions you overuse
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7386
Re: Words and expressions you overuse
I use indeed alot. I also tend to be very indirect and circumlocutory in my speech.
- Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:21 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
- Replies: 882
- Views: 143659
Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting
This is my first time making an isolating language, so I don't know how good it will be, but I'll shoot for a sketchy grammar by sunday or monday
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:09 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
- Replies: 882
- Views: 143659
Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting
I too am still in. I've just been feeling kinda down lately. If anyone needs anything from me, feel completely free to ask. I'll see if i can't have som more Tll characters up by tommorow In fact, I've been considering the idea of setting deadlines again. Maybe something like at least one new contri...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:10 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily
- Replies: 322
- Views: 55271
Re: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily
I can't hear the difference between [ɺ] and [ɾ]
- Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:29 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: My beef about ɨ/ɯ
- Replies: 62
- Views: 9765
Re: My beef about ɨ/ɯ
How dare you! Who do you think you are to mock the linguistic innovations of the most magnificent Atatürk?linguoboy wrote: ı--A nightmare. Just what were the Turks thinking? While you're at it, why not use j for /ʤ/ and dotless j for /ʒ/ too?
- Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:22 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
- Replies: 882
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Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting
I've had a really bad sleep schedule lately, and inspirations been lacking. I promise to make up for lost time though.
Anything you need?
Anything you need?
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:47 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan
- Replies: 197
- Views: 44864
Re: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan
There's also Baronh, though I don't know how developed it is.
- Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:36 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
- Replies: 882
- Views: 143659
Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting
Again, the question isn't could these inventions happen, but would they. The mechanics aren't in question, but the invention's conformity to known trends of technological development. Upon research, the only people to have developed the pot-in-pot refrigerator were from the Middle East, which leads ...
- Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:44 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 499873
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Damn, I've been reading the Cambridge language survey of Australian languages and I've been wanting to do a conlang based on Aboriginal languages too. O well, I guess there can be two....right?
- Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:26 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
- Replies: 882
- Views: 143659
Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting
But the fact that it can happen isn't the point. A quick look at the history shows that the first thing remotely approaching a refrigerator was done by William Cullen in 1756. Prior to that the height of low temperature technology was the icehouse, the world over. And yet, somehow, civilization mana...
- Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:27 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
- Replies: 882
- Views: 143659
Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting
Also, to paraphrase what Berek said on IRC, the refrigeration system is a "Gilligan's Island" mechanism that serves only to introduce modern conveniences into your consociety.
- Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:46 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
- Replies: 882
- Views: 143659
Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting
Started a history of the Chäng. I apologize to the Ibabawans: the Tll-Ikish have been receiving the majority of my attention, and it's quite possible that I will have to hand the responsibility of the Chäng off to one of you.
- Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:07 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
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Re: Lexicon Building
Tll-Fusyn: Kinkho' [kin.xoʔ]. Like most complex Tll-Fusyn words, a compound word formed of Kin "near" and Kho' "feeling/emotion"
Next: Pious
Next: Pious
- Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:55 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
- Replies: 882
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Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting
I say sure! As to where to put your people... 1.) There's a few deserts and tundras that no one has claimed 2.) You could go with something like the pacific islands, where your people inhabit chains of islands that are too small to represent on the map 3.) If all else fails, I'd be willing to donate...
- Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:14 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
- Replies: 882
- Views: 143659
Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting
Late on my promise by ten minutes >< http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww96/cephalopod_/hpqscan0001-2.jpg Also Leaci, keep in mind that any piece of Tll culture that reaches them is probably going to be filtered through the Slavasko, who the Tll-Ikish have had much more contact with. What if they d...
- Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:08 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
- Replies: 882
- Views: 143659
Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting
Of course! I'll have at least one new page of characters up by midnight tonight, cross my heart, hope to die.
- Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:33 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: How do you store your lexicon?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 10642
- Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:16 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
- Replies: 882
- Views: 143659
Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting
Tll-Ikish culture test. I made it in ~4 hours, so I know it's not perfect :P FAMILY 1.) You have a mother, a father, a grandmother, a grandfather several brothers and sisters (both by blood and by adoption), and several cousins 2.) You revere your father and obey him, but feel no particular bond to ...
- Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:36 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
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Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting
Go right ahead Amuere! Take whatever you want. If you have questions, feel free to PM me. The history of Ibabaw that's posted isn't what I'd planned for. I wanted the Chäng to be uncivilized at least until the 200 or so (the equivalent of earth 500AD). Looking at the map though, that seems kinda unl...
- Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:16 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Dresden Dialect
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2780
Re: Dresden Dialect
In a (sort of) unrelated note, what ever became of the dialects of the former eastern territories of Germany after WWII? Did they just die out after all the expelled Germans settled down in the west?
- Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:57 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
- Replies: 882
- Views: 143659
Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting
BTW great job on the Qhalqon writing system Leaci. Looking at it reminds me that I still have quite a few symbols that I need to supply (I didn't make a word for arm or hand? How foolish!). I like the clear linearity of your script though (I imagine, since the Qhalqon are a forest people, that there...