Axunashin question
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:55 pm
How do you say (eg) "How many kings..." in Axunashin? So far, my best guess is "Ji nivei...", but that would normally mean "Which kings/emperor..."
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Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:47 am
Ji boyok niveyei?
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:35 am
Thanks, but the lexicon says:zompist wrote:Ji boyok niveyei?
boyok m sum (of money), price [W.]
This usage isn't attested in the corpus either.
PS. Thanks for explicitly confirming (my suspicions about) the plural.
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:27 am
It is, actually-- it's used in The Cheating Skourene.rotting ham wrote:Thanks, but the lexicon says:zompist wrote:Ji boyok niveyei?
boyok m sum (of money), price [W.]
This usage isn't attested in the corpus either.
It's true the lexicon is misleading (and I'll correct that at some point). But note that the Wede:i word also meant 'sum', and a derivative means 'sum' in Xurnese.
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:09 am
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the word boyok is used three times on the page. The first two occurrences are unambiguously glossed as "price", while the final example "Ji boyok dei?" follows the same syntactic format as "Ji ende..?" Here, boyok obviously signifies "sum (of money)", the other meaning listed in the lexicon.zompist wrote:It is, actually-- it's used in The Cheating Skourene.
However, I hadn't checked Wede:i and Xurnese, which was a mistake considering Wede:i doubles Axunashin's basic vocabulary. (boat, &c)
Anyway, thanks for clearing up the matter.
PS. I had searched the Wede:i lexicon for "number" and "quantity", mind you, just not "boyok" or "sum".
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 10:57 pm
who're you going to believe - the lexicon or the creator?rotting ham wrote:Thanks, but the lexicon says:zompist wrote:Ji boyok niveyei?
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 1:51 am
Excuse me, extreme insomnia is messing up my phrasing. This usage is now, of course, attested in canon.Rodlox wrote:who're you going to believe - the lexicon or the creator?
PS. Shit, and I also meant to say it's not obvious from the examples "Ji boyok" can be used in the same way as "Ji ende X", not that it IS used in this manner.
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 1:46 pm
apologies; i was trying (attempting) to inject humor.rotting ham wrote:Excuse me, extreme insomnia is messing up my phrasing.Rodlox wrote:who're you going to believe - the lexicon or the creator?
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 4:00 pm
Sorry, so was I. (at first)Rodlox wrote:apologies; i was trying (attempting) to inject humor.
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:09 pm
Looked at the cheating skourene out of interest and couldn't understand the answer.