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Gaver- to pump,push




next word; fire
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Bettaunn:

火 hua [xwa] - fire < MC xwa
火炎 ha hiam [xa çam] - conflagration < MC xwa hjem




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hometown/city/country/place
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treskro wrote:Next:
hometown/city/country/place
Vaida Mi ha:

jonko mic /dZonko mitS/ "hometown" < jon "home, origin" + -ko adj. suffix + mic "town, village"; sometimes also jonmic /dZommitS/

similarly:
jonko pevein /dZonko pevein/ "home country, country of origin, homeland"


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Boşkoventi wrote:Next: "self-righteous, stuck up"
Kala: kuampo - egotistical; arrogant; brassy

next: to call; to cry; to shout

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sano wrote:next: to call; to cry; to shout
Tlalyso: coevdeut


v – d – t ; vediytà [ˈvæ.dɪ.tə] “loud” < PT *vedyto “loud”
(I) veudeut [ˈvɯ.dɯt] “make noise”;
(III) veudeuttà [ˈvɯ.dɯt.tə] “use s.t. to make noise,” “make noise with s.t.”
(IV) coevdeut [ʔœv.ˈdɯt] “shout,” “cry”;
(VI) qavedàt [ɣa.ˈvæ.də̆t] “scream”;

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Zayk wrote:Next: nosebleed
Kala: tima te ihu - bleed from the nose

next: pincers; pliers; tongs; claw (of animal); to grasp with pincers; to pinch; to clamp

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Iozian; Lusis Riviv; connected sticks

Lusis Sitraviv- connected fingers

next word; intuition, estimate, sense
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Finally! I made my way through all the past posts here, helping to build my root dictionary, and now I feel like I can contribute.

Taalen:

reise /'rej.se/ intuit, sense, feel (< *REJ, senses, especially magical)
reisas : NA-IN. intuition, ESP.

The noun is animate, as are most mental or emotional processes, and like most abstract ideas and verbal nouns, falls into the Incohesive class, aka the Cloud class.

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to dissolve, break down, fall apart, come apart (as of over-boiled potatoes)

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Dauyn wrote:to dissolve, break down, fall apart, come apart (as of over-boiled potatoes)
Vayardyio: garrani - 'to crumble, fall apart, break into pieces'

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Bettaunn:

僧廟 sonnmion [sõ.mjo:n] - 僧 monk + 廟 cloister/temple



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Eyrol-Parlend

fant (fant, fanto, fanta) - ghost, specter, phantom
dacir (dacir, daciro, dacira) - monster, creature
dacr (dacer, dacro, dacra) - monster, creature (something like Zalgo. Not as "solid".)


next word: ice, frost
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Illyrian
Ijse — ice
Glas — ice put in a beverage
ijslig — icy
Vrût — hoarfrost
Vruslig — covered in frost
Givre — coating of ice of nearly any discription
Givrig — coated in ice

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Taalen:

latse: spray of flowers, bouquet.
la'te: flower cluster or umbel (e.g. lilac, queen anne's lace)
jyse /jʌ̃.se/: bloom, single flower

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to fart, pass gas, expel wind

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Hiirawə

-haakˀə: 'fart'

Next word: camp, encampment, fort, military outpost

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Uscaniv:

frali - military encampment

Next word: tummy, belly
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Hiirawə
tsiyu, tsii-: 'stomach, belly'
tsiyatsu 'beer belly'
tsiyesquu 'someone who complains all the time' (literally the pejorative form of 'belly')
?tsiiki: 'belly-DIM' I guess this could be used as 'cutesy' term for 'tummy' or the like

The above word refers to the general area or outside, and is also used about when talking about the feeling of one's stomach. When talking about an actual organ, there are a couple words. kʷˀeyət, kʷˀiit- is a human stomach, while pətə, paat is the stomach of an animal (and this is often used in compounds, so saahpətə is a horse's stomach).

Next word: hurricane, typhoon, very powerful storm

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Uscaniv:

ucnata - hurricane

Next word: brain
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vecfaranti wrote:Uscaniv:

ucnata - hurricane

Next word: brain
Anda: éna - brain

next word: instruction manual

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Poswa: sossokupe literally "method textbook".

Pabappa: sossotupe A loan from Poswa. A native translation would be something like epampsas pessipup.

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bandage, cloth to stop bleeding
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Eyrol-Parlend

kit (usually plural kits) cast and crutches
kita specifically, a cast
kito a bandaid, a cover for a tiny wound
kiter bandages
kitra wound dressings

kitere to bandage a wound
kite to treat a wound (in general)

next word: competition, tournament

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Hellesan:

m astred –s » postv. deriv. of astredar "to combat in a tournament", from Peran and Sarden astoretari "to fight in a tournament", from astor "circle", because tournaments are held in circular enclosures.


Next word: siege tower
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So I'm going to run with this one a little bit, since the people that speak Hiirawə really would have no way of knowing what a siege tower is:

wəsráwe [wʉsɾawɛ]- 'war party'

The word is composed of the independent noun root rawe and the bound root wəθ- (> wəs- / _C) which functions as both a verb root meaning 'fight' and a noun root meaning 'fight, war, battle'.

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Hellesan:

n. fenuc –ghe –s –ghes » From Meg. phenduko "duck", possibly from Marnuncian phenet "duck", "goose".


Next word: pharmacy
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Tormiott:

stog /sto:/ (v) to heal
> astog /æ'sto:/ (v) to cure {+transitive prefix}
> stadog /stæ'ðo:/ (n) medic, doctor, nurse {active participle of stog}
» astōgo /æ'sto:ʁo/ (n) medicine; cure
» eriastōgo /əɾjæ'sto:ʁo/ (n) pharmacy {location prefix + passive particle of stog}

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din wrote:Next: Pottery
Kala: tsunku - can; jar; pot; urn

next: miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman

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