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How do you say Verdurian in Isma?n, Barakhinei, Cu?zi, Kebreni and so forth?

vegfarandi wrote:How do you say Verdurian in Isma?n, Barakhinei, Cu?zi, Kebreni and so forth?

Isma?n - vrezr?n
Barakhinei - ferediri
Kebreni - verduren
Cadhinor - vereduris
Flaidish - verdurick

Verduria didn't exist when Cu?zi was spoken. The area was called Arosd, so a hypothetical word for the language spoken there would be arosdoro.

Is the name taken from the Spanish word for vegetable, or is that just a coincidence? I always assumed it was from a conlang until I learned that word in Spanish just recently.

Mercator wrote:Is the name taken from the Spanish word for vegetable, or is that just a coincidence? I always assumed it was from a conlang until I learned that word in Spanish just recently.

It's from the English word 'verdure' meaning 'greenery'. (The Spanish word is related, of course; etymologically 'greens'.)

Aha! When I learned of the word verdure I thought it might be a coincidence. Then someone told me that Verduria was an example of one of the many Latinate roots you used in said language. Whilst not knowing Latin, I saw the French vert and Spanish verde in there. (Part of me wanted to see the Swedish gr?n, but I was young and foolish.)
But it comes from English, you say, not Latin? How interesting... Iirc, Shakespeare uses verdure in The Tempest to refer to something fertile and growable.

OK, cool. I forgot Cu?zi wasn't spoken, but I knew that.