Lexicon Building

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töy, Old Sjal *töle

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SE:
motlatlaxa
mo.tla.tlaxa
excessive.PL.rain

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Hellesan:

m. ternal "curtain"


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Määda:

'Anarchy' has several meanings, so:

chaos: ŋappä
decentralised socialism: analle torekonaprutähasoeo 'level workergroupeconomyideology'
freedom, statelessness: tuata

next word: margin

Ascima mresa óscsma sáca psta numar cemea.
Cemea tae neasc ctá ms co ísbas Ascima.
Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho.

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I probably spend too much time deriving political terms, so I'm going to do two.

reikkiasto
[ˈɾɛicːaˌsto]
anarchy
etymology: from reikkia "rule, authority" and -sto denoting lack or absence
derivations:
- reikkiastosair "anarchic" (+sair, a conceptual adjective suffix)
- reikkiastosarja "anarchism, libertarian socialism" (+sarja "philosophy, ideology")
- reikkiastosarjesta "anarchist" (+sta "adherent, practitioner")
- ūjslareikkiastosarja "anarcho-syndicalism" (lit. "union-anarchism")
- yrvareikkiastosarja "anarcho-capitalism" (lit. "right-anarchism")

svirin
[ˈsv̥ɪɾɪn]
margin
etymology: from svir "side, edge"

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mirricheu [mir:içja] v. to colour, to paint; from mirrich n. coloured; from PC *mrikko "colourfully flecked"
(no distinction between nouns and adjectives - mirrich means "coloured" or "coloured thing")

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alphabet n:
tsxakammonauȝa [all-units]

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næn:älʉː

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In Ataenniy:
mauchas
"danger rush" or "danger excitement"

There's no word for adrenaline, seeing as nobody on Ataenniy knows what it is.

next words: thought, think, ponder, muse, wonder

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kekardo "a thought", from kardoa "to think",
kanna "to ponder, to think about, to muse"
tk'ia sapso "to wonder"
All verbs in their supine-Form

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The shape or the weapon? I'll do the shape because I already have a word for arrow the weapon (dozens, in fact).

Kuroras:
tṁ (a syllabic /m/) + -as "shaped like" = tiŋos "arrow shape" (Kuroras is a highly fusional language.) A "softer" or broader arrow shape could be called ŋimos, from ŋìmo "mushroom".

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Hellesan:

v. feuir "to perceive through the senses, generally with exclusion of sight". Feuir man ses badhes "to feel with the hands", feuir man se fiu "to feel with the skin".


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Emnonian
deisiucikula - scientific, the road which the sun rides every day. Etymology: desius "sun" + cikula "circular road".

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personak wrote:Next word: debate
Debát /de.bæt/ n debate
Debátre /de.bæ.tre/ vt to debate

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maekritin - "full of drink"
This is a more pleasant kind of drunk, and would be "wasted" for a cheerful person.

suritin - "river of drink"
This comes from a ridiculous meme-like story of a man who lay down at the end of a river of wine. This is absolutely wasted. You can't get any drunker than this without dying.

next words: reprimand, scold, scolding, to reprimand, to scold, to chide

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gierjā (+dative)
[ˈɟæɾjaː]
to scold, to reprimand

hjifrā įhau (+dative)
[ˈçɪvɾaː ihaʏ]
to scold, to go off on, to bitch at (idiomatic, lit. "to tear at")

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Tormiott:

esard /'əsaɹn/ (n) sturdy or strong structure; (v) to be sturdy, to be well-built, to be strongly built
miulesard /my'ləsaɹn/ (n) something that is probable or likely; (v) to be probable, to be likely {miul-, positive prefix}
somuilesard /somy'ləsaɹn/(n) something that is improbable or unlikely; (v) to be improbable, to be unlikely {so- opposition prefix}

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Futte /'fʏtə/ or /fʏ'ta/ n.f. puddle, little pool of watter; futten[/i] /fʏtən/ or /fʏtɛ̃/ v. to gather into a puddle, to form a pool, to piss (highly vulgar)

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Hellesan:

1a m. pelf. From pelfe "leaf".
1b m. las


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laskartakan, from las "between" and karto "state, country"



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Poswa:
plorba, from the name of a game that Poswobs used to play with their hands (possibly just the same thing as modern arm wrestling). pl- = battle, orba = hand. The original sense would be re-stated as babi pižes, "battle of hands", which is the same construction as the original but with newer morphemes.

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Tormiott

rgay /ɾʁɛj/ (n) eye; window (window is also commonly: norrgay ; (v) to look around; to see (nol-, prefix for things that are clear, transparent; fluid or gelatinous)
argay (v) to look at; to watch (a-, transitive prefix)
aiersgay /ajəɹ'sʁɛj/ (v) to face, to turn towards (a-, transitive prefix + es-, locative prefix meaning towards here; in or into something; at some place + plus some metathesis)

I tried to make Tormiott nice and flowing, but this word can be an exception to the rule, I guess


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Bengedian:
fašem (v) to do (-em: infinitive, gerund, present active participle)
fašand (n) action, doing (-and: verbal noun, like English "-ing" in "building (structure)", "setting (of a story)")
fašad (n) program, procedure (-ad: collective suffix)
rad (n) work, task, errand, assignment

Next word: understand (Sorry if it's been done already. I checked in a little bit late, you know?)
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Bedelato wrote:(Sorry if it's been done already. I checked in a little bit late, you know?)
Don't worry, I doubt even people who've been watching the thread since the beginning can remember every word that's been done. A repeat doesn't hurt. (Also, welcome!)


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míle /miʎ/ vt. understand. (Kulae mílel "cast light on, illuminate")

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South Eresian:
ap'ela tla mahos
literally "speak from/by means of knowledge"

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Proto-Ataenniy
suukhanpfo
This would be 'an imitate-tion' (as in, directly derived from the verb 'imitate', and not as in 'a knock off'), as I still haven't figured out the verb sytem.
suu- water
khan- picture
suukhan- reflection, reflect
pfo-again

next words: handwriting, to write, pen/stylus/whatever your conpeople write with

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