Lexicon Building

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Hellesan:

1 m dabregamany –s "production" » From thaburkamaniu "production", from thaburkari "to produce" + –maniu (action of the verb).

2 m dabreganoc –s "production" » From thaburkanoku "production", "produce", from thaburkari "to produce" + –noku (effect of the verb).

3 f aragea –ees "energy" » Neolog. from Peran and Sarden aragea "energy", from Meg. arag– "active motion", from ar– "towards" or "onward" + ag– "action", "ascent" or "increase".


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Djakhetian:
bahi - lentil, small beans


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Poswa:

tumu is "to opine" (thanjk you Lojban, for teaching me that opinion had a verb form) but that doesnt really express the meaning properly. A vote is counted, an opinion can just be ignored. There are several words for counting. bub is the best to use here, since it means that the votes will also be measured against other votes. THus the word for vote is bumptumu, pronounced just as spelled, and bumptumuta is the word for a person who votes (although it implies habitual activity, .if you just want to talk about people voting in a given situation you can just use bumptumuba, a verbal noun that doesnt imply any time other than the immediate present.)

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Frying pan
Saharaina:Mapleka- [ma-heat pleka-circular pan] /maplɛka/
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Koko.Dk wrote:
Next: Sunscreen, Sunblock, cream to protect one's skin again the sun
Xuáli:

naim buzia maiauas
naim bi<uz>-a maia-auas
milk stop<causative>-OBL eye-day
"sunscreen" (sun-stopping milk)

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Glossing Abbreviations: COMP = comparative, C = complementiser, ACS / ICS = accessible / inaccessible, GDV = gerundive, SPEC / NSPC = specific / non-specific
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Kuroras: z (a regular development of proto-Kuroras ʕùhi, which also developed into Poswa bus which is a term for any wild animal)

This is a whole word, even though it has no syllagbles. It is even possible to build a sentence from this, zt, which means "hurt (him)!" and sounds much like a human imitating a "buzzer" sound.

In Poswa today you could say sumbvep, which comes from a verb meaning to bite off someone's fingers. Thus, it really refers to animals with strong bites, but can be used metaphorically for humans or other animals as well. Another word is bavbata, which is simply "injure" plus an agentive suffix.

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Hellesan:

m carsonet –s » From carsó "cart", "wagon" + –et (dimin).


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Izo wrote:Next word: slow-paced
Aidisese:
ashitaretéi - slow-paced, dull, absent-minded. Re-borrowing from Djakhetian Ashtart, meaning confusion.


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Chocolate is one of those words where I tried to contrive a common origin for the word for each of my otherwise-unrelated conlangs. I'm not very good at language families, so this is a bit informal. I don't know, for example, what the common ancestor of the word would be.

Sentalian: jèxana [jɛxaˈna]
Umpát: ikaná [ɪgəˈna]
Yaufulti (Western): yekana [ˈjɛːgɑ̃də]
(Eastern): yækæla [ˈjæːxæɬə]
Panceor: yekana [ˈjɛːganɐ]

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pāthy̆ä [pɒːtʰ.ɥaː] < Resmus pātsyjæ "that which is laid on the floor" < pād "to lay" + s (passive) + æ "it"

next: village (as opposed to a town or city)
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Z500 wrote:next: village (as opposed to a town or city)
Djakhetian:
kiyi - village, hamlet, small settlement


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Hellesan:

f. tegollirant "chivalry".


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Baranxe'i:
þokrand (variant þokrind) - fairy, pixy, gnome, a small sprite ( < pre-Old tʲukrńd, from tʲūkr- small and -n/n̩ person suffix)

next: fight, battle, skirmish
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Kinál: -hok- [xʷoɤ̯k] to fight, a battle, war-like

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Theta wrote:Next: poultry
Illyrian:
vlieugeria (n.f.) — poultry (collective)
vlieuge (n.f.) — fowl, pheasant, bird which is eaten
hegne (n.f.) — chicken; (m.) hengt applies specifically to males of the species, and is rather rare
fluire (n.f.) — bird
wassauld (n.m.) — bird of prey

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finlay wrote:(Eastern): yækæla [ˈjæːxæɬə]
Reminds me of the Finnish word for "lichen": jäkälä /'jækælæ/ ... why do I remember that but not how to say "difficult"?
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Christopher Schröder wrote:Next word: counterpane
סושח /ˈsʊwʃəχ/ romanticization- susjocj - quilt

Next word: Crispy
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Imralu wrote:
finlay wrote:(Eastern): yækæla [ˈjæːxæɬə]
Reminds me of the Finnish word for "lichen": jäkälä /'jækælæ/ ... why do I remember that but not how to say "difficult"?
because "lichen" is a cooler word.
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sucaeyl wrote:Next word: Crispy
Illyrian:
crellig(e)(n) — (adj.) curly, curled
gecrelt(e)(n) — (adj.) crispy, curled by cooking

Next word: ham, either the meat, or somebody who is overly-dramatic
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Imralu wrote:
finlay wrote:(Eastern): yækæla [ˈjæːxæɬə]
Reminds me of the Finnish word for "lichen": jäkälä /'jækælæ/ ... why do I remember that but not how to say "difficult"?
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Christopher Schröder wrote: Next word: ham, either the meat, or somebody who is overly-dramatic
Meat:
דיען /dɪjˈæːʕn/ romanticization- diaan - cured pork

Person:
פנך שולק /pəˈneʔˠ ˈʃʊwlɨq̚/ romanticization- poneek sjulekc - literally he who widens his wounds

Next word: Astringent
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finlay wrote:I had a maths teacher whose only phrase of German was "How do I get to the town hall?"
An English teacher of mine knew only one phrase in Portuguese: "I will kill whoever used my underwear as a washrag".
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sucaeyl wrote:Meat:
דיען /dɪjˈæːʕn/ romanticization- diaan - cured pork

Person:
פנך שולק /pəˈneʔˠ ˈʃʊwlɨq̚/ romanticization- pnek sjulq - literally he who widens his wounds
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Nortaneous wrote:
sucaeyl wrote:Meat:
דיען /dɪjˈæːʕn/ romanticization- diaan - cured pork

Person:
פנך שולק /pəˈneʔˠ ˈʃʊwlɨq̚/ romanticization- pnek sjulq - literally he who widens his wounds
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sucaeyl wrote:Next word: Astringent
Kala: nika - pungent (taste); bitter; astringent

next: very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic

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