Lexicon Building

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Hellesan:

v. caroscar "to write". Etymology: from Sardanyese karoskari "to write" (replacing Sarden amiderou), from Peran karausakari "to cut on rock", from karauko "rock" + sakar- "cut", "incision".


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Myonian:

n. dedmetal "slag"
from ded "dead" and metal "metal"

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veosnohu (veos, *vehos 'outer space' + nohu *nouhk 'vessel')

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Tormiott:

miþ (n) seed
astarmiþ /astaɹ'miθ/ (v) to sow (a-, transitive; star-, pertaining to land, solids; the land of...)
Starmiþ /staɹ'miθ/ (n) October

Not too creative I suppose. I should do the other months, too.

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<osvruníbu>, literally 'softener', in Adehyam.

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Olguma:

férfa /'fʲøɾ.fa/, ['fʲøɾ.va] - Flea

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ceeklfujuf - scary
ceekl (fear, be afraid of) + fu (causative) + juf (adjectiviser)
/çe:klfuʝu/, /ʃe:klfujuf/

As for the calendar, felt like answering this oneː the closest equivalents to October (ie, shortly after the autumnal equinox) are the months of Tèlkym (/tɛlkəm/, /tʰelkʰɨm/) and Jecoo (/ʝeçø:/, /jɨ:ʃu:/), which so far I think I'm naming after heroes or gods, in the short calendar, and Fièn (/fíən/, /fi.en/), which means Music, in the long calendar.

(The current month is Vàleem (/ʋɑle:m/, /vale:m/) in the short calendar and Koos (/kø:s/, /kʰu:s/) in the long calendar. Again, Vàleem hasn't an etymology yet, and Koos means sand. They're both spring months, although I guess they'd be autumn in the northern hemisphere.)

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Hellesan:

m. rastar and rostau "fox" (Vulpes). Etymology: from Peran rastaru "fox", from rast- "thief".

f. ghise "red fox" (Vulpes vulpes).

And the bonus:

Bermous "forest pilgrimages" and Brovinyes "herds of fogs" are the two current official names of two Hellesan months. Compared with our Gregorian calendar, Bermous runs from September 19 to October 18, while Brovinyes runs from October 19 to November 17.


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Bengedian:

ran /ɹan/ (n.): gang, union, club, group of people

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san "thing", also widely used to form new nouns like pathosan "Cigarette" from patho "smoke" and san.

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Olguma:

permáth /'pʲer.mɛi/, ['pʲer.mʲɛː] - Shoe
Derives from Late Agiram pero mèche, meaning 'covering (of) feet'. At that time, pero mèche was a compound and not a single word - the usual Agiram word for shoe was gollai.

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Hellesan:

f. astorgamme "circumference" or the traditional gamme na s'astor "measure of the circle". Etymology: from astor "circle" + gamme "measure".


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Sordóivi:

éusi autumn, from Hungarian ősz.
Also híeni, from Sogurian hiena.

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South Eresian:
oroupok talma
Literally, "tree's torso."

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Hellesan:

f. timne. Etymology: Neologism from Classic Sarden thymne "dust spread", "cloud of smoke", "particles in suspension", taken from Drusnian thumne "dust", "cloud of smoke", from Sing. dheu- "smoke", "dust", "vapour".


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Late North Terran:

giri hrodzol [ˈgi.ɾi ˈxɰod.zoʟ] - Psychoactive plant (lit. "plant [that makes you] high")

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z(ssw) m(tsw)n / Dry-Dweller:

m(tsw)n m(trs)n m(hj) n(sws) μ(trs) - Psychoactive lichen (lit. "soil-feeder that changes the mind")
[lichen-like organisms take the niche of land plants on the Dry-Dweller homeworld]

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Mtxłanadařřšamatł n Psychodrama,
Comes from mtxłana (psycho-), dsama (to act in context), dařřšamatł (a drama)
[mɹxɬanada:ʀ:ʃama:tɬl]

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Olguma:

usara /'u.sa.ɾa/, ['u.sa.ɾa] - Regulations; rules
Plural of usárig /u.sɛ'ɾʲij/ [u.sɛ'ɾʲiː]. An abstract noun derived from sár (king, ruler), with the addition of the u- unagentive prefix and the -ig suffix for class 3 abstract nouns.

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Tirase:

lúli adj. square, rectangular, quadrilateral. (Kulae láholi "four-pointed", cf. Proto-Nuelic həuʟ "point, projection")

Saolo:

ládi [lɑdʒ] masc. adj., laduẽ [lɑˈdwɛ̃] fem. adj. square, rectangular. (Compare reborrowing láholi [læʊʎ, ˈlæʊʎi] m. "regular quadrilateral", a geometry term.)


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rima (also: kvartarima) "kitchen sink",
iksa "to sink (intransitive)"

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That "there's a new post while you type" thing is handy.

Mata-Itia:
kara'ina - falcon, hawk; occaisonally, any large bird of prey; kara 'unkind death', ina 'wing, wind, breeze, bird'
(such birds are uncommon in Mata)

Juka-Itia:
kyarano - falcon (adaptation of kara'ina)
tsijakyo - falcon (formal)


next words: plate and/or bowl; eating utensil (fork, spoon, chopsticks, fingers)

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South Eresian:

tsoherolma: dish. Etymology is the Old Eresian phrase "a half full thing," I'd post the etymological form for it but I'll probably change it later anyway.
wichiwara, yoniwak: utensils (not traditional earth utensils, pictures will probably eventually end up in my South Eresia thread). The first one is just literally "tool(s) used for eating," the latter is a loanword from a language on the mainland called Wosot.

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Сордо́иви:
Sordóivi:

пhу́ллоти / phúlloti boredom, listlessness, from Sogurian pohul "be bored" and -joti "-ness".

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asahiha kwa chiyel axkoya: the edge of a new/young world.

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