Lexicon Building

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8Deer wrote:Next: snowshoe.
Lokura: Etpa - n. /ɛt-pɑ/ - From et, to keep, and pamo, foot.

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Luhre wrote:Next: sleep-walking
Ahu:
umu lam : sleepwalks
le umu lam : is (the action of) sleepwalking : is somnambulism

Next word: meta, self-referential
Glossing Abbreviations: COMP = comparative, C = complementiser, ACS / ICS = accessible / inaccessible, GDV = gerundive, SPEC / NSPC = specific / non-specific
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Hellesan

adj eudebambarn "self-referential", lit. "auto-focal".


Next word: to mess about
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tzau-sumilii

bezhihelbolee
bastard.CAUS.inf
[pʰɛɕ.çi.xɛː.pʰə.ɬɛː]

To make debauchery, raise hell, or muck about


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aghuhārgū
to cringe; to wince; to flinch; to shrivel up; to cower; to contract
from aghuū (to bind; to put together) + hārgū (to pull; to draw)

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To Posit/Postulate

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Iscan:
s’encàpere /senˈka.pe.ɾe/ ■ v. refl. cringe, whince, jerk, give a start, flinch.
— origin: en- 'inwards' + càpere 'seize' < Latin carpere

Dudish:
foryse /foˈɾɛɪ.zə/ ■ vi. cringe, whince, jerk, give a start, flinch.
— origin: for- 'more thorough action' + yse 'shudder, quiver, tremble' < Middle Low German eisen


Iscan:
postulare /pos.tuˈla.ɾe/ ■ vt. postulate, assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom.
— origin: Late Latin postulare

Dudish:
postule /ˈpos.tʊ.lə/ ■ vt. postulate, assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom.
— origin: Iscan postulare < Late Latin postulare


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Xeon wrote:Next: photogenic
Icastrian: zenkaskuillu [ˈsɛŋˌkaskʊˌɪllʊ]
etymology: zenkasku "camera" (zen "image, picture" + kasku "machine") + illu "happy"

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Ahu:

alu naim : is a mammal (literally "milk animal")

Next: "ambulance"
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Imralu wrote:Next: "ambulance"
Himmaswa:
dmeyn nung pleat keuu nchoych fnau
cart REL transport person suffer sickness

Next: horsetail (or similar plant)

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clawgrip wrote:Next: horsetail (or similar plant)
Arasamean:
falotalaa

Derived from falota-xo-laaj, ("lots of these {scales} and similar things" plants), a reference to the horsetail's pangolinhide toughness.



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Rodlox wrote:Next: Dugong (or similar herbivore)
Illyrian: Seecuy. ['seːkɛʉ] lit "seacow"; See (CGmc "saiwaz") + Cuy (CGmc "kūz")

Next word: paperback, or similarly cheaply-printed reading material
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Christopher Schröder wrote:Next word: paperback, or similarly cheaply-printed reading material
Icastrian: tabasághalamasot [ˈtabasaːgˌhalamasot], "alley stories" (mass noun, singulative tabasághalamaton, singulative-plural tabasághalamaion)
etymology: tabaság "alley" (taba- "second-order, vice-, off-, side-" + ság "street") + halamasot "history, stories," from hala- "happen, occur"

Tabasághalamasot is Icastrian pulp fiction. Tabasághalamaion consist of short anthologies or serials of (typically) gritty, lurid mysteries and sensational adventure stories, printed on cheap paper and available for the equivalent of a few pennies. In recent decades radio dramas and the cinema have taken the place of tabasághalamasot as Icastria's favourite entertainment, but it remains hugely popular among children and adolescents, particularly working-class boys.

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Alahithian: tamath

Next word: enclave
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treegod wrote:Next word: enclave
Icastrian: ígiazietakónyt [ˈiːjjasɪətaˌkoːnət]
etymology: ígiazieta- "enclose, seal in" (ígia- "in" + zieta- "close, shut") + kónyt "municipality, province, state" (general term for a governed area, often used in compounds)

Next: to compare
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Lunan:

To Compare--Taltisuk

Next word: archipellago
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D.J. Camilleri wrote:Next word: archipellago
Arasamean: řajař [ɾæƷæɾ]

though some pronounce it as [RæƷ.ƷæR]


Next word: to see / to observe
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Rodlox wrote:
D.J. Camilleri wrote:Next word: archipellago
Arasamean: řajař [ɾæƷæɾ]

though some pronounce it as [RæƷ.ƷæR]


Next word: to see / to observe

Already have that, so I guess this will be a Plawaswapala chuj word

/zegaltee/
[ʒɜ.ɣə.θəː]
"he/she/it/they see"
The typical chuj word for 'he/she/it/they see' /yetu/ would be used for for 'they note,observe'


Next word: Confusion, pandemonium
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Ulan wrote:Next word: Confusion, pandemonium
Himmaswa:
Image - bloung: chaos; disorder
ImageImage - bloungbnar: riot; commotion (bnar: event; incident; case)
ImageImage - oonbloung: to confuse; to confound (oon: to mix; to stir)

Next word: schism; rift; disunion
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clawgrip wrote:Next word: schism; rift; disunion
rothor (< * Latin ruptura): rupture

Next: stellar, lunar, solar adjectival form of star, moon, sun.

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Eandil wrote: Next: stellar, lunar, solar adjectival form of star, moon, sun.
Lunan:

Chul--star
Chulaka--stellar ("of the star")

Jahu--sun
Jahuku--stellar ("of the sun")

Kiin--moon
Kiinookoo--lunar ("of the moon")

Next Word: tributary (a river that flows into another river)
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D.J. Camilleri wrote:Next Word: tributary (a river that flows into another river)
Illyrian:
Straum, thes [stɾou̯m] (n.m.) — Stream, small River, Tributary (CGmc straumaz)
Oie, tha [u̯a] (n.f.) — River (CGmc aujō, appeared in Old Illyrian as auĭā, though dialectal oĭā eventually replaced it)

Next Word: synonym
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Quosaw:

gaĝhɔz-a, ubanw-i ("tributary")

samanamid-a ("synonym")

Next word: mitochondrion (the Quosaw word is "gowŝîyadeyagaĝh-ɔ")

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Illyrian:

Canulle [ka'nʉl.a] (n.f.) — Lump, Glob; Biol. Mitochondrion (probably a CGMC knulōn)

Next Word. Squall, Storm
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Chuj (byushan)
Yurtsaa [jɯ.ʣaː] "Thunderstorm, scuffle"

Chuj (central)
Bezka [pʰɔʑ.kä] "Storm cloud, dust devil"



Next word: bradycardia / tachycardia
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Ulan wrote:Next word: bradycardia / tachycardia
Poswa:
ambva "heartbeat"

rufli "fast, moving quickly, speedy"
movo "slow, being held back by something"

-up "that which causes X"; sometimes used for medical syndromes

thus:
ambvaruflwup "tachycardia"
ambvamovup "bradycardia"

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