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Hefynĸoĸseću - to take prisoner, make a prisoner, from Hefynĸa - inmate, prisoner from *Hefynasĸa, itself from hefynacu - fasten, bind, stick, secure Just out of interest: what's the phone[t/m]ic value of <ĸ> here, and how does it differ from <k>? There isn't any - when I was working out the orthog...

Élerhe wrote: Hefynĸoĸseću - to take prisoner, make a prisoner, from
Hefynĸa - inmate, prisoner from *Hefynasĸa, itself from
hefynacu - fasten, bind, stick, secure

Just out of interest: what's the phone[t/m]ic value of <ĸ> here, and how does it differ from <k>?

sano wrote: next: poor; inadequate; deficient; garrulous

High Eolic: cávert 'bad, useless'
Aurelian: piçar 'bad, inadequate'

next: plan, project; course, method

sano wrote:
next: footstep; step

Trurian: tanth "step, footstep"

High Eolic: nartav "step, footstep"
Aurelian: nèton "steep, footstep" (cognate)

Next: extra, unnecessary, unwanted

My friend said the same thing, he needed "space" to make the connection. So it's only me who understands the phrase "on a crawl?" But if the guy's actually an architect who should be familiar with terms like this, where could the phrase have come from? (...and please, please don't just give us the ...

Next word: to be shocked/surprised Aurelian: ansuş "surprised, taken aback"; yiç ansuşis "be [or "will be"] surprised or taken aback" High Eolic: serán "surprised, taken aback" Trurian: turnaí "surprised, taken aback", turnono "to become surprised, taken aback" (by something, etc.) Next word: (wate...

cybrxkhan wrote: Next:
cliche, commonplace, stereotypical

High Eolic: tarlá 'ordinary, common; boring' (from tar-láya 'two-eyed')
Trurian: reí 'common, ordinary, boring'; tärlaí 'boring, unimaginative, stereotypical' (from HE tarlá)

Next: stooge, lackey

I should shut up :) Yes, yes you should. --- I read the article on wikipedia. Still, I must say that Kyiv is a totally different case from western Ukraine. I just have trouble collating blue-yellow fences, roofs, etc. in the countryside with choosing Russian as an every day language over the mother...

Just finishing up The Polymath by Bensalem Himmich (in English translation unfortunately). It's on Ibn Khaldun, and a very interesting novel.

next: to bewilder; to dazzle and confuse Trurian: turnono 'to become dazzled/confused' eturnono, aturnono 'to confuse, bewilder someone' (Brief derivational note: eturnono and aturnono are somewhat unique in that they are both effectively lexical causatives; usually, the e- prefix denotes reflexivi...

Skomakar'n wrote: In one of my languages, rītā means name!

It's also a colloquial word for 'ass' (as in 'buttocks') in Slovene.

OK, I've done some tentative changes to address the two issues Cathbad and Trailsend have encountered. See the updated file here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8026017/cb_gloss.php.txt — To test the updated file, you'll best rename your cb_gloss.php to something like cb_gloss.php.bak and replace it with ...

Tested here: http://jonafras.conlang.org/?p=548 And it appears to work quite well. Extremely useful. Great job, GP :) EDIT: just one thing: is there any way to add your own formatting inside the 'glossed' area? I want to be able to emphasize the relevant words in the sentences for my WOTD posts, but...

Superb! I'll install this immediately once I get back from uni this afternoon... and test it on my recent TC quote.

Next : Saga/Epic Poem (a culturally-important narrative e.g. Beowulf, Mahabharata, Gilgamesh) Aurelian: toç 'myth, legend' (cognate with High Eolic tand 'famous'); sutraş 'story, epic' (no HE cognate, although possibly related to atruş 'speech, language', which is in turn related to HE ters 'mouth'...

Guitarplayer wrote:I've taken the whole afternoon to create a plugin for Wordpress:
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Tinariwen - Tenere Taqhim Tossam

I don't know how come they came up on the Colbert Report, but I've been a fan of these guys for the last 5 years. I love all of their albums.

I'm playing World of Goo now, which I got in a package deal with 4 other games for 10 dollars. (much of it went to charity) I have World of Goo on my iPad, which may be superior to the computer version, but I haven't played it in ages. I think I remember it getting immensely difficult after about l...

sano wrote: next: to bore through; pierce; perforate; penetrate

Trurian: ächtono 'to pierce, perforate'

Next: bald, baldness

Slovene has a few: no /nO/ is probably used very similar to Polish, although it also occurs in order to express only partial commitment: no ja , as a response to a statement / utterance (and usually introducing a more fully worded reply), would probably best be translated as 'you're right, but I don...

I once planned on studying Mehri , but have abandoned the thought of it for now. I just think that it's not really productive to learn a language unless you really learn it - and then it has to become an important part of your life one way or another. If you're not planning with really linking to it...

Élerhe wrote:
next word: volcano

Aurelian: keylèyaç (literally 'fire-head') 'volcano'
Trurian: kelöyach (from Aurelian - mostly a literary word, since most Trurians would hardly know what a volcano is)

Next: (grape)vine

And, yes, I'm a virgin as well: I think that one should wait until one's in a steady relationship before the mattress dancing should occur. I can't say I really agree with you here. This kind of attitude 'sacralizes' sexuality too much in my opinion. I think sexuality should be more independent fro...

L1, etc. is Slovene. I'm supposed to have some Czech blood in me but it certainly doesn't show.

treskro wrote: Next: float in the air, float in water

Trurian:

emreon - to fly, to float (in the air), to levitate
chaldheon - to float (on the water); to lie (on a slope) (from chaldhá "slope, horizon; wave")

Next: down (as in feathers)