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el flokratisson wrote:next: revenge
Kala: neka - to make reprisals; to retaliate; revenge; retaliation

next: to reward; to compensate

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sano wrote: next: to reward; to compensate
Trurian:
erendhono 'to reward (someone)' (= to give someone a reward for completing something, e.g. winning a contest; implies a greater reward/compensation than is strictly necessary or fair)
lanthono 'to cover, cover over (something); to pay, compensate (for)'

Next: mind / soul / heart

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Cathbad wrote:
sano wrote: next: to reward; to compensate
Trurian:
erendhono 'to reward (someone)' (= to give someone a reward for completing something, e.g. winning a contest; implies a greater reward/compensation than is strictly necessary or fair)
lanthono 'to cover, cover over (something); to pay, compensate (for)'

Next: mind / soul / heart
Illyrian:
Méty (f.) — Recollection, Memory
Soulle (f.) — Spirit, Zest, Essence
Herte (n.) — Will, Desire
Ember (m.) — Mind
Keur (m.) — Heart (Organ)

Next Word: Organ (Instrument)
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Christopher Schröder wrote:Next Word: Organ (Instrument)
Kala: kanuyasa

kanu - any stringed instrument

yasa - wind

next: kind-hearted

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sano wrote: next: kind-hearted
Aurelian: magaç - kind, friendly, obliging
High Eolic: lúc - kind, kind-hearted

Trurian: theleí - good, kind
lucheí - kind, altruistic (loan from HE)

Next: shark

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Cathbad wrote: Next: shark
Icastrian has a few words for shark. The general and scientific word is horaig [ˈhɔɾajj]. Another is förtenano [ˈfœr̥tʃəˌnano], literally "sea-bear." This term is mostly used in coastal areas where fishing and whaling are primary economic activities, as sharks are minor sacred animals in the professional-religious traditions of fishermen and whalers. In the navy, where a very different professional-religious tradition predominates, sharks are seen as loathsome creatures that portend calamity; sailors know sharks as förteangrou [ˈfœr̥tʃˌaŋgrʌʊ] (sg. förteanger [ˈfœr̥tʃˌaŋgɛr̥]), literally "sea-demons."

Next word: document
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Colonel Cathcart wrote:Next word: document
Vanga:

œyhmýls
; text; letter; document; character; glyph

I just took the already existing word for 'text'.

Next word: agony
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Skomakar'n wrote:Next word: agony
Kala: umuaha

umua - pain; ache

-ha - augmentative

next: stench; stink; smelly; to smell (bad)

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Illyrian:
Brieth (m) — Smell, Odor
briethen — to smell of, to emit Odor
briethy — giving off a Smell; briethy ta smelling of
Staum (m) — unpleasant Smell, Stench
staumen — to stink, to smell bad, to reek
staumy — unpleasant-smelling; staumy ta smelling of

Next Word: Blizzard, Snowstorm
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Christopher Schröder wrote:Next Word: Blizzard, Snowstorm
Kala: pakyo

next: to elucidate; to explain clearly; to expound

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Turrugh - To explain. To answer.

Turrugh ho ka hu a hu glan u wurruh - He explained as like water of a cleanliness - He explained with clarity.

Next - molasses

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ùlemmow - n inan - sweet, viscous substance; syrup, molasses, honey

Next: paranoid
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treskro wrote:Next: paranoid
Kàmo:
Ganikanà - "to see ghosts frequently" - to be paranoid; to be crazy/out of one's mind

Next word: fang; sharp tooth

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Theta wrote:
treskro wrote:Next: paranoid
Kàmo:
Ganikanà - "to see ghosts frequently" - to be paranoid; to be crazy/out of one's mind

Next word: fang; sharp tooth
Poswob pappo, from a word that originally meant poison
Pabappa: wobabiu, from feas pisi žužubu, "front teeth (that) bite"
Khulls: , a single word with no significant changes in form or meaning since its parent language

next: maze, trap
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Heba:

vèrlmiki a maze
vèrl spiral, confusion
miki trap, snare
veremiki a maze, made of shrubbery (playing on the similarity between vèrl and vere)
vere green, plant


Next: guest, visitor, customer

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valiums wrote:Next: guest, visitor, customer
Telèmor: depajor (n-var.): visitor; fem. depajot

Next: visa
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vampireshark wrote:
valiums wrote:Next: guest, visitor, customer
Telèmor: depajor (n-var.): visitor; fem. depajot

Next: visa
Vanga:

alantúnahha; alantúnahhs; "permit to travel (across borders)"

From ál(a)-m ("to go") and tų-w (tún-w; "to be possible/able").

Next word: bridge
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Skomakar'n wrote:Next word: bridge
yucxqay /jutʃ.`Ɂaj/ - n. a bridge, from yucxa road and qay sky.

Next: antidisestablishmentarianism

Or: quagmire
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Poswa:

besfap = league, religious sect (religions and political parties are generally the same thing on this planet)
piššep = the government

piššwes petem besfap = (a/the) religion supported by the government
(piššwesfap for short)

piššep besfwap petembwob = (for) the government to stop supporting a religion

piššep besfwap petembworpete = to support (the idea of) a government no longer supporting a religion

piššep besfwap petembworieše = to oppose (the idea of) a government no longer supporting a religion

piššep besfwap petembworieše bumbem = antidisestablishmentarianism

But most likely if this became a commonly used phrase it would be shortened by piššwesfap bumbem, "the alliance (in favor of) the established religion", or at least piššep besfap bumbem.

Pabappa would most likely just loan everything letter for letter from Poswa, but if it were native it could be something like pisep perap pimpem.

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Soap wrote:next: quagmire
Kàmo:

ipikoí - diminutive of 'swamp'

next word: liver

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day-day /daj.daj/ - n. liver, from reduplication of day stomach.

Next: amusement
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Kèia:<arieko> -amusement
<tepaka arieko> -amusement park
Next word:doubt

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Xaro wrote:Kèia:<arieko> -amusement
<tepaka arieko> -amusement park
Next word:doubt
Classical WIP Lang:
doubt- daubédn [daʊbe:dn]
to doubt- adén daubédn [ade:n daʊbe:dn]

Next Word:
Relatively narrow plane between a Sierra and the Coast.

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Lyra wrote:Next Word: Relatively narrow plane between a Sierra and the Coast.
Do you mean "beach"?

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Lyra wrote:Next Word:
Relatively narrow plane between a Sierra and the Coast.
Illyrian —

Greutlende (f.) — Sandy Beach
Strend (n.) — Coastline, Edge
Daille (f.) — Bluff; high, rocky Coastline

Next Word: Tart, Pie
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