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Arabic. Why do the newbs always try to make a triconsonantal root system. ugh

Lexember 19th: - U - (suffix) marks a singular out of a collective, limited to planets, animals, and food/drink; etym: survival of the Proto-Western * -γ suffix that signaled edibility on a noun. yamó 'pine trees' --> yamóu 'a single pine tree' laná 'eggs' ---> lanáo 'one egg' willí 'millet' --> wil...

Lexember 18th

nóké - (particle) emphasizes the speaker's point, expresses surprise or incredulity when said by itself; etym: ná7ó ké 'to me'.

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A Vezurian adage:

Ülü lü iri riy
/'y.ly ly 'i.ri ri/
ül-ü lü ir-i riy
drink-3sg.PAST that become-3sg.PRES brave.NOM
He drinks to be brave

"Any problem solved is a new problem made." - Karl Pilkington

táékúwoká tháló7í tsá oe7ellállé phatótsá7é
He eats meat, and the whole village arrives.

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Lexember 7 Wippwo: akrẽ - (n.) 'seal, approval, certificate of legitimacy, proof'; Faralo akremu 'wax' atelor - (n.) 'department, division (of an organization)'; Faralo atelol 'closet' boad - (n.) 'duty, obligation, responsibility'; Faralo boed 'son'. The word also gave rise to several patronymics: ...

nó - /nɤ˥/ [nɤ˥] (particle), particle of address to grab the attention of the listener(s). Used with more frequency than English 'O'. From a contraction of the first person pronoun in the construct case: ná7ó

Talamotsé tsuŋé, nó Phuwú!
You swim great, Phuwú!

Lexember 6:

Empotle7á:
ewólano (n.) 'bad thinking, illogic, sophistry', from ]*yabu-ʔu-lãsu 'back-mouth'
ʔwotsemná 'flattery', from *ʔwotsiŋná < *ʔuwadzĩkhta < *ʔuwa-dzĩkhata 'sweet vomit'

Lexember 5th:

Wippwo literary terms:
inol (n.) 'basis, foundation' < extension from 'bottom, floor'
it 'genre' (n.) < extension from 'manner, method, way'
ižwã (n.) 'chapter' < 'arm'
mihta (n.) 'plot' < 'ordered'

Lexember 4th: Loanwords into Wippwo from Buruya Nzaysa (through Naidda). Semantically related words in Buruya Nzaysa include yovla ‘superstition, unfounded reasoning’, nzesu’ə ‘incompatible thing’, mesə ‘insufficient thing’, yaba ‘faulty thing’, bɔvla ‘mistake, blunder, error’, sumɔ ‘falsehood, coun...

Lexember 3rd: Now featuring adverbs! Empotle7á tlanem 'suddenly', from Proto-Western *dłanẽ . tsuŋé 'skillfully' and tsuŋe-í 'master, maestro, artist, sage', from *tyũkʰe . oŋú -7atlo (vt.) 'rock, sway' and oŋó -pá (n.) 'cradle', from *wãyu 'repetitively, again'. - *wã gives om (vt.) 'coo' tsotsú (p...

Lexember 2nd:

Wippwo:
meill [meʎ] (v.) to act, pretend, from Naidda mele < me- 'speak' + -le 'attenuative'
meillbbo [meʎβɔ] (n.) actor, from meill + -bbo 'agentive'

Rural/bedouin dialects of Arabic from all areas. Plus North African dialects, particularly Moroccan (which is famously unintelligible even to native speakers). Yep. I can't count the times the Jordanian owner of a local hookah lounge has reminded me to switch dialects when I unconsciously begin spe...

Lexember 1, Wippwo: - iravo (n.) 'outsider' And the Neirians will appropriate this as rabbo /'ra.βɔ/ ['ra.ʙɔ], as a derogatory term for someone from the Buruya area. Empotle7á: peŋe /pe˩.ŋe˩/ [pœ˩.ŋe˨], (ditransitive verb) 'give good news to someone,' from Proto-Western pẽγe Derived terms: peŋéllá (...

Word: arpeggio

Empotle7á:
swowolá [swo˩.wo˧.ɬa˥]< swowu 'harp' + -lá; 'what is done to a harp'

Shtåså:
nåassa [nɑː.ʔasːa] < nåas 'jump' + -sa 'result of verb'

Wippwo:
alloar [a.'ʎɔar] < Adāta āliora 'harp'

Next word: piano (as in soft music)

Following Abdurrahman ibn Abdullah's conquest of Rome, he decreed that the local tongue be written not in the manner of the kuffār Romans, but in the manner of the Blessed Qur'an: كوي ويرو ديوس إسي ديكسيرنت تنته سنت ان ورياتاتي ات دسينسي أوني / ات أيؤروم إينفينيتوم ست إينمراري سنتنتياس / نام ات دي ف...

Mobile prepositions. An entire verbal phrase has been placed in the phrase the date on between 'date' and 'on':

Select the date you are willing to have a yard sign placed in your yard on until the March 4 primary.

Arabic takhayyul is the masdar of the wazn V form of khāla ( kh-y-l ). According to the online dictionary Al-Maany, khāla translates as 'deem, consider, believe' and takhayyala 'sway, strut, praise oneself'. The adjective 'imaginary' is derived from the fi3āl wazn and the nisba suffix: khiyāliyy

Basics Username: Arzena Birthplace: California Place of residence: alternates between California, Texas, and Morocco Occupation: student Identity Gender: cis male Sexuality: gay Relationship: dating Nationality: Murcan Ethnicity: white Religion: Endajué and strong agnosticism Politics: American left...

Born in California, moved to Texas for school. To quote Torco, my milklang is English and the first language I studied was Spanish. I study Arabic now (MSA, Egyptian, and Moroccan) at the expense of my Spanish. I've lived in Morocco and I so I often slip into Darija when I speak Arabic. This is very...

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Stop being effete Latins and be strong Germanic samekind!

Word: theosis

Empotle7á:
kotsú7ellátó state of becoming filled with kotsú

next word: supernova

Yep, and it seems to me to be stereotyped of blacks and hispanics. I.e., in Black Dynamite, I remember that the eponymous hero refers to his female counterpart as 'mama' at one point. And I've heard Pitbull refer to girls as mamí before.

Empotle7á, base 8:
tawo, sí, nalló, mená, 7otla, mení, nallé, ŋawo

Shtaasaa, base 8:
tab, shi, nastï, nheddh, us, mech, naish, nhab

Neirre Wippwo, base 10:
ke, ni, woa, boa, du, iš, mem, son, nil, roa