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-yˀaahq: 'be mean, angry' (stative verb)
uˀ...-yˀaahq: 'act cruelly towards someone' (transitive verb)
puθə: 'mean, bad, cruel, angry' (adjective)
-tsuwu: 'be sad' (stative verb)

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roninbodhisattva wrote:Next word: vein
Kala: sila - arteries and veins; vein

next: to lose; to miss; to fail

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-kaaru(s)- 'be disappointed, fail'

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Thsjäb: mäm [maːm], from earlier mänib, from Resmus məsrib < Memeyk mətsrib < sməts "shit" + rīb "to taste"

X disgusts me - Mämā oX
X disgusts Y - Märm oX Y

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Z500 wrote: next word: to discard
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senti - to discard, abandon


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cybrxkhan wrote:Next: melodrama
Kala: kehi - drama; play; show; severe; melodrama

next: to dry in the sun; to sunbathe

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lypelpyp maerub "Lypelpyp nap", where Lypelpyp is a city in the extreme western part of the empire noted for its dry sunny climate. The name of the city means "scorpion" so this could also be read as "scorpion nap".

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Taalen:

dytse /'dʌ̃.t͡se/: counter-clockwise, lit. against the shadow, <dam 'shadow' < *DAP + vatse, -uts 'against' < *VATs 'face'

This is a stative verb (i.e. an adjective) which can be turned into a motion verb with standard valency/argument-changing processes. I just haven't quite figured out what they are just yet. :)

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Dauyn wrote:Next: calendar, calendrics, count of moons, etc.
Kala: sayoma - date; calendar

sayoma = uesa'o (19) & yoma (day) | The calendar I use for Kala is based on the Baha'i calendar (a non-religious borrowing).

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Hellesan:

v beldandetz -e -s -es » Participle of beldander, from Peran nbertanteri "to open in extension" and "to extend", from nbertanti "wide", "spacious".


Next word: to trip, to stumble
Un llapis mai dibuixa sense una mà.

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Izo wrote: Next word: to trip, to stumble
Merthic:
arbnioy - intransitive verb meaning to fall, to trip, to stumble, etc.; from triconsonantal root Br-N-Y, denoting the concept of jumping


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Bettaunn:

飲料 imlon [ʔim lon] - beverage



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Illyrian:
Twijsendravellen (twijs (dis-, un-; cognate to English "twice") + end (combining form of en appearing before /l r n/, and used more liberally than the English senses to denote putting something into something else, cf. encherkellen (to encircle, to put into a circle), encherissen (to endear, to make dear), but also used in the sense of giving some sort of quality, as in enthrieuren (to make dreadful), "enformalismen" (to make formal) in much the same way both -fy and -ise/-ize are used) + ravellen (to weave; endravellen carrying the sense of "unravel" or "make come apart", which "ravellen" does not possess).

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Bettaunn:
煩 bian [bjan] - bothersome
煩惱 bian non [bjan.non] - pester
惱人 non neng [non.neŋ] - pest


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Illyrian —

Thonre — Lightning
Thonresleuid — Thunder (Thonre "lightning" + Leuid "sound")
Thonresvellieu — Thundercloud (Thonre "lightning" + Vellieu "cloud")

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Christopher Schröder wrote:Next word: Paradise, walled garden
Aidisese:
Aira - paradise, garden


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Hellesan:

m. Antar romeu "sountrack", lit. "sound(ing) space". The whole of dialogue, music and sound effects in a film.


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Un llapis mai dibuixa sense una mà.

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sweşely [sβɛ.ʃɛ.ly] 'Parasite, (derog.) Yehudi'
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Ulan wrote:sweşely [sβɛ.ʃɛ.ly] 'Parasite, (derog.) Yehudi'
NEXT WORD: really; truly; indeed; real; true; genuine

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Bettaunn:
真 hion [çon] - true, genuine, augmentative; cog Mandarin 真 zhen1
當尼 dang ni [daŋ ni:] - really?, of course


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Poswa: wabbubop, from wabbubo "hourglass", implying that one turn of the hourglass makes one hour.

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Eh, sorry, was caught up in something

ngânaniqelu [ŋænaniqɛlu] Rainbow, lit. 'Sky's belt'

Bringing up an approximation of the chuj syllabary

I say approximation because it is so laughably worse written on a graphics program rather than it handwritten


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Ulan wrote:Next word: Janitor/Custodian
Kala: tlelako - one who cleans / cleaner

next: to emit; to give off; to send out

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Taalen:

pyyva /ˈpʌ̃ːˌβa/ to emit; to eject spores (external origin: < puffball, internal: <*PYV, eject, puff out in a cloud; smolder)

pyuse /ˈpʌ̃.uˌse/ incense

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Bettaunn:
泊 paeh [pæʔ] - amber
液 yah [jaʔ] - tree sap
脂 tti [tli:] - resin
膠 gaeun [gæwn] - tree gum

All can be compounded with 樹 giu - tree.


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