Lexicon Building

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Cathbad wrote: Next: furrow (as in made by a plow)
Djakhetian: am-itj to furrow (related to am-utj, meaning 'to plow')

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cybrxkhan wrote:Next:
ritual sacrifice
Proto-Aketamsei lauyi- NOM lauyiḥ libation
> Baranxe’i lāji [ˈlɒːjɪ] - public recitation of a hymn
> Asuāneica rauy [ɻøʏ̯] - sacrifice, libation; religious festival

Baranxe'i:
saźur - sacrifice of a living being
< loan from Temple Speech saźur to cut; to sacrifice, a Northern cognate to standard Baranxe'i sadźa cut, slice

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MisterBernie wrote:next: tool to start a fire, (adjust as needed by technological level)
Kala: kyopa

next: heartfelt; sincere; unfeigned

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sano wrote:next: heartfelt; sincere; unfeigned
Djakhetian:
ramer - to be honest, sincere, heartfelt, etc.


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scholar
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cybrxkhan wrote:Next:
scholar
Tuyuk: petteyá know-C1.NOM
'one who knows things'

Next word: parade, festival

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Theta wrote: Next word: parade, festival
High Eolic: lartámas "parade, procession", or lartámasa-harangec "holiday parade" (lit. "parade for festival/holiday")

Next: cooperative, obliging

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Cathbad wrote: Next: cooperative, obliging

Djakhetian:
bunkh-r-tja - to be cooperative, to be obliging, to be agreeable


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Asahi wrote: Next: Rights (as in "human rights")
Vayaryio:

antréa - right

next:
to encounter
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Yagia wrote: next:
to encounter
Djakhetian:
edfi - to encounter; variation of "edfa" meaning to meet
hukhati - to encounter (an enemy or someone one is having an argument with); variation of hukhatu, meaning to confront


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fried, adj. (as in fried foods)
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cybrxkhan wrote:Next:
fried, adj. (as in fried foods)
Cravanian: oftak, from oft (oil) and -ak (adjective ending); "oiled"

Next word: security detail

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Sortsdam wrote:Next word: security detail
Xuáli:

ahax (from Old Xuáli *akʰazi 'bear')
(1) is a tall, strong, heavily built, fierce-looking man
(2) is a bodyguard (-a of)

om
is a group/herd/squad

om ahax
is a personal security detail (-a for)

Next word: horse
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Imralu wrote:Next word: horse
Kala: uma

next: to leave aside or shelve

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sano wrote:
Imralu wrote:Next word: horse
Kala: uma
very creative

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horse!!! yea, I like this word.

Proto-Halauzhani asha < Proto-NE-Iranian acwa: horse
zhaya: horse that likes to run, someone with initiative
axvasha: fast horse, having fast horses
rzhasha: exceptionally fast horse, an exceptional person, an innovator, avant-garde
xvasha: strong horse, having strong horses
arvatasha: a racing horse, the balance of speed and endurance (like a marathon runner)
staura: beast of burden
daam: tame domesticated animal, slave, submissive
viyasha: wild horse, loose/free horse, someone who's gone off the reservation
dandashaana: unruly domesticated animal, feral animal, biter, spirited woman
bastha: a captured but not broken horse
vishasha: head of a herd (of horses), leader, stallion
vrsh or vrshasha: stallion
graazh- herd of horses, circle of friends
babar: bay horse, that color
brathna: chestnut horse, that color
aurusha: dun or white horse, those colors
flasha: a calming (of horses), a soothing gesture/caress, sedative
flinasha: the act of pleasing a horse (source of poetic flinashthra apple [lit. thing that pleases horses])
flavasha: a desirable horse, an attractive woman
yaujasha: break a horse, a broken horse, a dandashaana that has become a daam
kraushati: to trample, to stampede
nay: to lead a horse
basnay: to return with (re)captured horses, to bring (someone/something) back to the fold
hapash: to lead a herd of horses, to coordinate
vrtasha: a chariot horse, one who is coordinated, a good member of a herd
vaarah: a horse's tail, the hair from a horse's tail
shafa: a horses hoof

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marsh: to put aside, to shelve
maush: to take back, to unshelve

Next word: gift

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Přemysl wrote:flavasha: a desirable horse, an attractive woman
LOL ... You're a desirable horse.

Awesome list of words though. Horses and cattle died out on Qol (the planet where the Ahu are from) because of disease and habitat change (it got wetter, grasslands got taken over by rainforest) and bad breeding techniques reducing genetic diversity to dangerously low levels. The words for these animals frequently survived though.

Xuáli

diál[a X]
is a gift [from X] (utilitative form of dal[a X] "gives [X]")

tuc[a X]
is a gift [for X] (from tus "is a tangible object" + tc[a X] "is for [X]"

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Imralu wrote:
Next word: initiation rite

Kkughrolarr Aagoolarr Rolarrtukh


"to stand before a large, important community to come to possess an importance in a communal sense"

Kkugh = To Be Before/In front
Ro = Community/Communal/Communally
Larr = Important/Big/Respect-marker
Aa = Coming/Nearing/To Approach
Goo = To Possess/To Give/To be Given
Tukh = Many

...I honestly adore how stupidly ambiguous and open to interpretation Trollish is turning out to be. Mind you, it's largely body language that defines meaning anyway.

Next word - "bipartisanship"

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besfap = league, religious sect (all political parties are religion-based)
pop = on both sides of (when there are only two major sides, this is used rather than the simple word for two)

so besfappop = "both parties"

The -ship wouldnt seem to be necessary in Poswa, since in English the word is almost always used as part of an adjective clause ("the spirit of bipartisanship") or as the subject of a sentence in which case its meaning is something like "Bipartisan cooperation".

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Soap wrote:next : very angry
Kala: enomha

eno - anger; angry; upset; mad

-mha - many; much; a lot of; numerous; multi-; not few

next: affix, append(ix), attach(ment)

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Kinál:

kúr - limb, often used to mean 'arm'; in grammar refers to affixes

Next word: robe

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Theta wrote:Next word: robe
Acrenish: ÀRИС /ja ɹɪs/ n. robe
(I enlarged the pronunciation because the <ɹɪ> did not render well in the normal mode, as you can see for yourself.)

Next word: incompatible
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Gâlispratch:

âcreveny â not, no crever to mix, to mesh
slightly less technical sounding than
âcompativilau (loanword) â no, not compativilau compatible

next word: secretive

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valiums wrote: next word: secretive

Djakhetian:
shiy-kah - to be secretive, hidden; related to "shiy-keh", meaning "to be quiet, shy"


Next:
to spray
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cybrxkhan wrote:Next:
to spray
Acrenish: гoиъин /gɔɪ jin/ n. spray; гaъин /ga jin/ v. pres. perf. to spray

Next Word: bargain
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focle wrote:Next Word: bargain
Vaida Mi ha:
siakar ["Sakar] (n. class 5) "bargain, (good) deal, value"

cf. omtuk ["o~tuk] (n., class 5) "cheapness, inexpensiveness, economy; (a) bargain"; from om "cheap, inexpensive"

Siakar refers to getting something at a low price relative to its value - i.e. a good deal, "getting your money's worth", etc. - while omtuk simply indicates a low price, and may have connotations of cheapness or stinginess.


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