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That's from Dictionary.com. I've never heard of it and an image search for "sunbreak" doesn't turn up anything that looks like it, though "sunbreaker" does.

Sjal wrote: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.

Kulae:

sómsalimoum m. ruminant, animal that chews cud. (som "two" - salimoum "chewer" fr. salimote "chew", salimo "jaw")


next: doomed, screwed, beyond help

Saolo:

saoiuẽ [sæʊ.jəˈwɛ̃, sæʊˈjwɛ̃] f. ocean, sea. (Kulae sánoila "salt water")


next: saliva

The page design looks good, very readable. I'm glad to see things coming together. The balance you strike between leveling and irregularity hits my aesthetic just right. I'm looking forward to seeing the sound changes. Little stuff: there is only two strong adjective forms there are -wa and -wo stem...

(Welcome, melancholyverde.)

Tirase:

kúrume m. message. (Kulae káuhilumos "that which is run", i.e. that which is delivered by a runner)


next: defile

Tirase:

ok m. cough. (Kulae óhukhi "coughing" fr. Proto-Nuelic ʔuxux "cough", probably echoic.) Verb form ókil "to cough" perh. on analogy with ákil "to laugh".


next: cope with, face, deal with

Tirase: fedárk m. propulsion. (Kulae pheo-táhil-khilkhi "let-chest-moving" i.e. causing to move forward.) This word and its verb form fedárkan "to propel" sound technical, suitable for scientific discussions. In a technical work one might speak of the bork te fedárk "method of propulsion" of a boat ...

Tirase: énuberil te tóro vt. to modulate, to adjust, to make a finer distinction, lit. "to carve/whittle of a little bit". ( énuberil "carve, whittle" fr. Kulae hénupeloel "stone-dance". tóro "little bit" diminutive reduplication of tor "portion" fr. K. tóhila "portion".) Le zaví bíran rúze. Enuberó...

I think "spider" got orphaned earlier. I'll do both. [eta: Oh, no it didn't. Well, whatever.] Tirase: rúde m. spider. (Kulae elúto "spider" fr. Proto-Nuelic ailútu "weaver", lútu "weave" also source of T. lúdil "wave, undulate") fánoz m. cook, chef, esp. baker. (K. phánoaphise "bread-man") next: spo...

Tirase:

nolólark m. mathematics. (noló-lark: noló "counting" fr. Kulae hínoel "count, reckon" fr. híno "finger", + lark "knowledge, lore" fr. K. láhilte "know".)


next: swallow

Tirase:

pádagil f. acronym, abbreviation. (Kulae pátakaikuli "acrostic" (lit. syllabogram-poem). Sense evolution from acrostic poem that spells out a word/phrase, to the word/phrase to be spelled out, to any acronym.)


next: itch

sikúle adj. improvised, esp. of music. (Kulae siamkúelis "of no plan", ultimately from Proto-Nuelic kul̩ "path")


next: old

Neqitan wrote:Eodrakken: Do you know if there's any difference between selecting "UTF-8" and "Unicode"?

I believe UTF-8 is preferable for compatibility reasons, but I'm unclear on the details. Both encodings work for saving and opening IPA text files in Notepad, at least on my computer.

dinnae wrote:Sometimes that does lead to me trying to log onto some website with IPA characters...

I've accidentally activated IPA entry while playing a game, making me think my keyboard had gone berserk making every punctuation character I typed come out as ?.

I greatly doubt any blog readers want to hear about anybody's dreams either. I dreamed that there was a tandem bicycle abandoned on the sidewalk. I decided to take it, but then after a while of riding it, I thought maybe I should have turned it in to the police. Then as I was riding down the bike pa...

mózromire m. "street lamp" (mózro "city" + míre "light")


next: advertisement

Tirase: stovín f. proper care and discipline of animals (Kulae siteuphínu "animal síte ". síte referred specifically to a man's duty to care for and discipline his lessers, including children, women, and domestic animals, and is equivalent to Tirase stel . stovín has drifted from the original sense,...

Vermont says kindergarten with a voiceless t? Is that common in Vermont or just your idiolect? Me? I'm from San Francisco originally. I really can't remember if others there have [?] in kindergarten, or if it's just me (maybe the spelling has subconsciously influenced my pronunciation, but I never ...

Though "garden" may have an influence on the first, there's not really any need for an extra explanation-- post-stress t normally gets realized as [d] here. 'Carted' and 'carded' are homophones for me. Do you also have [d] in "carton", though? Carted and carded have [d] for me too, but not carton o...

Is he very big? Hard to tell with no reference points in the photo.

I can't say I love centipedes (I only know them as pests), but I used to have a pet snake, so I can sympathize with not everyone seeing your baby the way you do!

isbú f. cause, instigating action, factor, or person (Kulae aithipaóm, nominalization of áithiel "to cause, to put")

next: ramble on, talk without making a point

Cool. I'd definitely read this if you uploaded it.

zompist wrote:Yes, ecuni is a strategy game something like chess. There's at least one more board game called muyo (Peril), which has an element of luck and thus can be wagered on.

They never bet on contests of pure skill?

Chess was developed around the 6th century AD, but didn't get to Europe until later. In any case, it was much too late for the Elenicoi, who left Earth in 325.

Go had been invented by then, but I think it's unlikely Greeks would have known of it.