Lexicon Building

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I've been meaning to do this for days, but I keep getting distracted.

Tormiott:

tgad /tʁɛn/
(v) to turn sharply or suddenly; to turn around; to bend at a sharp angle; make a turn (on a road)
(n) exit (on a road)
condotgâdo /'kon:otʁɛ:ðo/
(n) deviation, aberration, anomaly
{cond- (prefix) elsewhere; to another place; out of + tgâdo, passive participle of tgad}

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buttermilk
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din wrote:next: buttermilk
Kala:

pima
buttermilk; cultured/fermented milk

next: dense; crowded; thick

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Guma:

Paku : Dense, thick, viscous
Mani : to crowd or swarm

Next: Mellow
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Garlic wrote:Next: mellow
Kala:

tsume - mellow and rich; simple and kind; relaxed

next: delay; hold-up; to waste time

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Hope I don't look like a bum.

Guma

kansa - to delay
wamka - to waste time - dillydally


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Garlic wrote:Next: to hoard
Kala:

tsame - to gather; to collect; to accumulate; hoard

next: long-winded; wordy

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svaimahaa (excessive speaking)

Next: Ogre, Troll (like Shrek)
Talāṃ leya kalakena rāmah, saktalām peha leya bhūmena ca.
See a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower.
Omkāṃs tava sutvantayam pharo, 'naiṃ le' jeś ca.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

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abaddamn wrote:Next: Ogre, Troll
Kala:

puana - deity; monster; strange; mysterious; supernatural

next: to wait upon; to accept orders (from superior)

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next: to wait upon; to accept orders (from superior) [I like the idea of this as a weriously held practice in a conworld. YOINK]

Guma

pemu - to exact the will of a superior unflinchingly

next: siphon (verb, noun, or both)
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Garlic wrote:next: siphon
Kala:

tlapo - siphon; seep

next: withered; dried up

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masako wrote:next: withered; dried up
Himmaswa: Image jiner: to wither; to wilt; to shrivel; to dry up

Next: doll; toy person

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Modern Palethian
mematu /memaˈtu/ n doll < PE mismaˈtɔl < PC miṣm-a tol (girl-of cloth)

next: hyperbole

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Pazmivaniye wrote:next: hyperbole
Kala:

tleki - to boast; to brag; exaggeration; pompous; hyperbole

next: pawn; lackey; accomplice (in crime)

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Çux:
ανζαυ , ΑΝCCΑΥ , 7antcaa , ançay [ʔɒ̃tɕ'ä: ~ ʔɒ̃tɕ'aj]
lackey; accomplice, comrade

paa7antcaa citevutcim
"My lackeys are seated"



Next word: To Mount, Climb (a short distance), renege

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ulsh wrote:Next: mount, climb (a short distance)
Kala:

uaya - to ascend; to rise; to climb; to go up; ascent

next: to the point; concise

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Tormiott:

open /'owən/ (n) division; half; separation; shore, coast (more commonly staropen)
(v) to divide; to cut, to slice; to pare, to cut off

ôpeno /'o:wəno/ (n) shell
(v) to be terse, to be concise, to be to the point, to be curt
{passive participle of open}

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bilingual
— o noth sidiritt Tormiott

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din wrote:next:

bilingual
Himmaswa:

ImageImageImage mgiatswa'urt [mə̯̆ɡʲiə̯t̚swaɚːt̚] - to be bilingual/multilingual (Himmaswa doesn't differentiate)

Image mgiat - to manipulate; to control; to adjust
Image swa - language
Image urt - to double up; to overlap; to pluralize

Next: entity; being

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Wōše: vaţţekei

Next word: to be responsible for
I did have a bizarrely similar (to the original poster's) accident about four years ago, in which I slipped over a cookie and somehow twisted my ankle so far that it broke
What kind of cookie?
Aeetlrcreejl > Kicgan Vekei > me /ne.ses.tso.sats/

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Aeetlrcreejl wrote:Next: to be responsible for
Kala:

kimu - duty; responsibility

next: objectify

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Objectify:

Guma : Hanupifugna (Hanu - empty
pi - abstraction attribution
fugna - See)

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Garlic wrote:Next: polarize
Kala:

kete - polarization; polarized

next: impassable; uncrossable

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next: impassable; uncrossable
alolak - un.go.able

next: utmost, highest, most high (superlative)
Talāṃ leya kalakena rāmah, saktalām peha leya bhūmena ca.
See a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower.
Omkāṃs tava sutvantayam pharo, 'naiṃ le' jeś ca.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

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abaddamn wrote:next: utmost, highest, most high (superlative)
Kala:

kihaka

kiha - high; tall; above average; numerous; long

-ha (-ka) - augmentative

next: fake; false; artificial

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masako wrote:fake; false; artificial
Tletlwan has somethings corresponding to this, thus far only:
/tid-/: adverbial prefix: artificially, by means of production, through work.
/aqw-/ adverbial prefix: pretentiously and falsely, with "puffed-up" idiocy.
/aqwnwa/ noun: pretentious idiot; shallow fool.

next: Longevity
From:
Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.69

To:
Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33

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Kvan wrote:next: longevity
Kala:

tseua - longevity; ability to live long; long lived

next: domestic; internal (to a country); civil

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