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Leneric:
utarid - vegetable/fruit, originating in a Tamlrinian term meaning "an edible plant" (I do not know what it is, as I barely know anything about Tamlrinian yet)

next word: pencil

Leneric:

tasir: to make a copy
manarhe: to imitate
pofub: to copy (someone's work)

Next word: drum

The trade thing sounds plausible. Another possibility is expansion through colonization. Maybe the nomads crossed a sea and settled in a new land, but contact with the mainland was retained, and a colonial empire was founded. And, if you want cities, maybe the colony had to have a place where the go...

Zayk wrote: d-r-s "wipe out"

Is that an Arabic root? If so, doesn't Arabic d-r-s means "learn"?

Thanks. I tried making some new sounds earlier and partly succeeded, but I wanted to make sure... well, I am not sure what I wanted to make sure. Thanks, anyway.

I have been reading Zompist's online Language Construction Kit. I have already worked on several conlangs, but I never really understood phonology and phonetics, or whatever the official name is. So I decided to go deeper into the phonology section of the LCK. I am particularly interested in the sec...