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There are a few of these little jokes I sprinkle throughout but the one I immediately thought of was <nam> which I've used to mean "to eat" or "food" a few times as a joke based on "nomnomnom" (an onomatopoeia for eating sounds). I also like to work in real world roots, for example a couple conlangi...

Thanks! History-wise, I'm purposefully being vague because I don't know all the details myself but if pressed I would say in the late 900's with the main speakers speaking the "standard" West Saxon dialect, or something thereabouts with some influence from other parts of England (not to mention Fris...

Still working on the verbs section, until then here are a couple texts: The Our Father and the North Wind and the Sun Ór Fader Ór Fader hvá in hevone is ehálod vœrþ ðín name. Đín rikje kom, Đín vele vœrþ an œrðen alsvá in hevone. Ór dailíkjen bræd jev ús tódaye. Ann forjev ús óre gœltes, alsvá vé fo...

@Nort: Have you posted a thread on pembrish where I can learn more about the grammar and history? ***** Janko messaged me about numbers so I'll post them here as well. 1 án 2 tvá 3 ðrø 4 føer 5 fíf 6 sex 7 sœvon 8 aght 9 níon 10 tén 11 enlevon 12 tvelf 13-19 are formed by adding <-tén> (note that 18...

oh cool, another anglic conlang cf. Butter, briaede, on grwyne çyse is good Inglisch on good Vreas. / Buter, brjæð, on grúin kjýs is góð Inglisk on góð Frísk. more pembrish: Grwyne bith at loand /grwɨːn bið ət loə̯nd/ Reed bith at clif /reːð bið ət klif/ Fite bith at soand /fiːt bið ət soə̯nd/ Thae...

Yeah, i have been. Wikipedia doesn't have much on North Frisian. Omniglot says that /ð/ is specific to the Sylt dialect. Anyway, I have a couple sample texts that are relevant to Heligoland/Frisian. Grén is ðat lann /gɹeːn is ðat lanː/ Ræd is ðé kant /ɹɛːt is ðeː kant/ Hvít is ðat sann /fiːt is ðat ...

Oh it does? Honestly, I don't know much about North Frisian, much more familiar with Saterland and West Frisian so I assumed it didn't have interdental fricatives. I appreciate the help!

If the area is influenced so heavily by Frisian, Dutch and Low German, it shouldn't have such sounds as /θ n̊ l̥̥ r̊/. Agreed, I'm planning on having the voiceless sonorants regularlize back to voiced. When it comes to the interdental fricatives...I'm less sure. Although it is supposed to be influe...

I recently saw Herra Ratatoskr's "West Saxon" thread and was really impressed with his work. It reminded me of an OE derivative I had worked on a long time ago which I called "High Middle English" so I decided to revisit it. Long story short, it wasn't well developed and no longer what I found inter...

And for what it's worth, a while back I did some experiments on vowel perception and a lot of American English speakers interpreted (German) front rounded vowels as (English) central vowels /ə~ʌ ɚ/ (in CA, a /ʌ/ is often fronted and more central than back). Mind you, this was a minor experiment don...

Conventionally, the NURSE vowel in RP is transcribed using [ɜ]. At the same time, the backed DRESS vowel found in my own dialect is probably best transcribed with [ɜ]. However, the two sound absolutely nothing alike, and to my ears the RP NURSE vowel sounds much more like [œ] while my DRESS vowel s...

The /h/ seems to appear only in these particular locational verbs. My issue with listing it is that it never actually appears as an -h-; it always assimilates. You should list morphemes by their underlying forms (in this case -h-) rather than surface forms. You (or anyone with a working understandi...

And in tribute, the next is: Servant, minion, assistant úhu /ʔuː.hu/ "servant, slave" noun formed from the root ʔVh with the general meaning of serving, slavery áhmu /ʔaːh.mu/ "servant, server, waiter/waitress" from the same root as above, agentive noun from the verb ʔaːh "to serve" pallmu /palː.mu...

Next: Fortune-teller khulíqu /xu.liː.qu/ "shaman" (lit. spirit-instrument) There is no direct word for fortune teller in Dnukta'u but there closest thing is terms of role in society and archetype is the shaman. Once an integral part of Fi'd religion, the shaman was largely supplanted by the khilg̃g...

hwhatting wrote:Next: blood

sulkhu "blood" from the root sVlx- from which are also directly formed salkh "to bleed" and silkhu "bloody"

Next: shepherd

next: political; politics; government huflahú'u /huf.la.huː.Ɂu/ "politics" from huf- "assembly" and -la- which creates nouns of location (literally: assembly-place) to form "court" plus -huː- which makes nouns of skill or ability (like English "-craft") so that the word means something like "court-...

There's also the Old English and Old Norse kennings like hwæl-rad and hron-rad "whale road" along with others like "swan road", "sail way", "whale way", etc. all meaning the sea or ocean. For the sky, I can't think of any but a brief search yielded Ymis-hauss "Ymir's skull" for sky from ON.

Well since you described it as an unknown -h- between the pronoun and verb, it seems best to list it as a separate morpheme (at least that is how I understood your description). You could call it "unanalyzable" or something to that effect. However, since it looks like it's an obligatory part of the ...

I would do both. In my lexicon, I list basically all types of morphemes (inflectional, derivational, roots, etc.) but then I also list whole words as separate entries even if they're composed of several morphemes. The only exception being made for inflected forms. I normally don't list every inflect...

I really like the phonology! I'd be interested to know more about the different dialectical variations. That level of detail is something I aspire to. Thanks! I made that shit up as I went along, tbh. Ha! Fair enough. You really should develop that though. I really appreciate linguistic diversity w...

I really like the phonology! I'd be interested to know more about the different dialectical variations. That level of detail is something I aspire to.

I too would be interested to learn more about the conculture. Is there a conreligion?

Next: guest naq̃qhmu /naɴχ.mu/ "guest" As in many cultures, guests are usually provided with food as a sign of hospitality and the sealing of a kind of unwritten guest right contract. Thus, the word derives from <nam-> "to eat" with a stative suffix <-qh-> and agentive suffix <-m->, ultimately from...

coherent [kʰoʊˈçɪːɹɨnʔt˺]
inherent [ɪnˈhɛɹɨnʔt˺]
adherent [æd̥ˈçɪːɹɨnʔt˺]
spherical [ˈsfiɹɨkʊ̜ɫ]
heroism [ˈhɛɹowɪzm]

I have never heard of such a thing, but it sounds like just double-marking to me. Like how children has what are historically two plural markers instead of just one (both the <r> and the <en>). I was thinking thinking the same thing, double marking. That being said, Travis B., this is recognizable ...

hwhatting wrote:Next: to serve

tlal- "to serve; to work for, to worship" from the root tl-l from which also derives tlulu "slave"

Next word: relief