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After more digging I think the kwer portion actually refers to kar in the longer form. My current theory as to their theory is ham+zam+kar+an with zam assimilating to zan. This would produce together + destroy + make, or roughly "they make destruction together". Like Jal said, despite the WP entry (...

Yeah kw > h doesn't fit anything I have read on Iranian languages. However I did see someone suggest the modern formation of "to make to fight together" would be something like "bâ ham jangidan". The obvious potential historic connection between ham jang... and ham(a)zan is pretty obvious, but how t...

What does that mean in English? Even if there are more popular possibly more correct etymologies, I would like to understand how this one was formed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons claims Amazon may come from ha-mazan based on Hesychius's gloss of hamazakaran as "to make war". Further, supposedly ha comes from kwer, to make/do. I have two problems with this on a linguistic level, which may both be based in my lack of knowledge. First how do...

What do you mean by innovation? Do you mean things like neologisms? Adapted loans? Productive processes such as bahuvrihi?

Why the hell do you get all the fun sex dreams? The closest my dreams get to sex are getting raped and beaten. Well, there was this one dream years ago where someone I had a crush on made passionate love to me, but then the building was burning around us. I was trying to warn her but I couldn't reme...

cybrxkhan wrote: Random possible words:

Pmryedz

Oh God, I've undergone a sound change.

Komite is based on the 6 languages of the UN done as a committee. It is half auxlang and half jokelang. /p/ <p> /t/ <t> /tʃ/~/tʂ/ <c> /k/ <k> /f/ <f> /s/ <s> /ʃ/~/ʂ/ <x> /x/ <h> /m/ <m> /n/ <n> /r/~/ʁ/ <r> /l/ <l> /j/ <y> /a/ <a> /e/ <e> /i/ <i> /o/ <o> /u/ <u> CV(N/R) Russian votes for p t k f s x ...

jaarapahat- surgeon
jaarapahat < jaarapah < jaar "hand" + apah "work" calqued from Greek kheir + ergon

Next: veteran (in any meaning of the word)

daishat- any symbol of honor including medals and badges of honor
daishat < daishati < daish- > deik_j to show

Next: to boil

Earthling wrote:

Přemysl wrote:Are there languages that differentiate post alveolars and alveolo-palatals?

Ubykh.

Leave it to those crazy Caucasians. Say those funky phonemes white guy, say those funky phonemes right.

Proto-Kalauźani /p t tʃ cç k/ p t č c k /b d dʒ ɟʝ g/ b d ǰ j g /f θ s ʃ ç x/ f θ s š ś x /v z ʒ ʝ/ uu z ž ź /m n/ m n /r j l/ r ii l /a aː i iː u uː aj aw aːj aːw/ a ā i ī u ū ai āi au āu The palatals aren't set in stone yet. They may become alveolo-palatals or I may wait until Old Kalauźani. Are t...

sano wrote:next: compassionate; gentle; merciful; kind; humane

Haziam:
aria- compassionate, humane, kind like a host
iipiah- gentle, soothing, kind like a friend
civa- helpful, kind like a mother

Next: manners; etiquette

I had translated Sura al-Faatiha to Haziam but I can't find it. As some here can attest I have very bad file naming habits (i.e. 1.jpg, 1.txt, 213.doc, etc).

You could look at M.H. Klaiman's book about grammatical voice, to find the types of voice-systems. Derived voice is one Basic voice is one Inverse/Direct voice is one Salience or pragmatic voice is one (topical or focal; at least one language has both). Also, consider voice-prominent languages like...

Voice sounds like a good topic. Active, passive, antipassive, middle, causative, reciprocal, etc. Then you have things like inverted, applicative, and circumstantial voices. Shenilar, now defunct, had active, antipassive, 4 applicatives, and 4 circumstantials. I wasn't insane enough to combine the a...

If you conflate patients/themes and experiencers, (how) do you distinguish transitivity for certain experiential verbs? In I saw an eel , how do you know (slash does it matter that you know) the verb's transitivity? How do we know eel isn't an oblique? Many verbs in Majiusgaru are labile. Transitiv...

I think you need to cut out a lot of the hesitation moments in your podcast. It can be quite slow-going at times. Will's problem is slightly different; when he has the floor he'll sometimes make a dramatic pause, and I think it'd be better if he just got on with what he's saying. Normally it isn't ...

The latest Conlangery podcast had me finally wanting to write out how different relations are marked in Majiusgaru. Its been sitting in my head for sometime but I never put it down. Experiencers, themes, and patients are treated as Patients. This means they are marked with the absolutive (by positio...

Legion wrote:There's minced and minced~

Oh you mean it is spiced fruit? Or is it even yet another form of minced meat?

BTW on "shish kebab". Here in Central Asia shish kebab is always minced meat on a skewer, never sliced meat - that would be simply "kebab". I have to ask. How the heck does minced meat stay on a skewer? I have a hard enough time getting a hamburger to stay in one piece when it is sitting on a gridd...

You are right as far as the plural goes. I found a few more grammars, although none of those give more good ordinal examples. But a Yucatec one did mention how the plural marker is not used with mayan numerals. If loaned spanish numbers are used then the plural may be used.

@finlay: DM isn't too expensive but you could try what I did at first, which is borrow it through your local library if they do interlibrary loans. I did that with Payne's wife's book on verb initial typology as well. Hmm, if you guys need more topics there are always different typologies, like how ...

How do Mayan languages do ordinal numbers? I only have one source on Mayan and it isn't the greatest. I am trying to understand how to construct something like "2nd star". My "dictionary" lists ka' as meaning two or second, u as the 3rd person possessive, ye' as the classifier for divine bodies, tal...

And I still wouldn't call a döner kebab a "kebab", I'd call it a "döner kebab". You're the only BE speaker I know who would. This wasn't a word I'd ever encountred before going to Germany. (assuming the word you are talking about is "döner") Really? I've watched enough British food television (that...