Lexicon Building

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Since you didn't give a new word, I'll choose, and do, the next one, which will be rain, since you wrote about a rainforest.

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; rain; shower (broad /ˈmiːjːa/, main dialect [ˈmʊːjːɑ]) (dictionary entry)

Next word: to listen (to)
Online dictionary for my conlang Vanga: http://royalrailway.com/tungumaalMiin/Vanga/

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Skomakar'n wrote:Next word: to listen (to)
Illyrian: clusin "to listen", clusin ta "listen to", clusin vrem "listen for", "await"

Next Word: Assassin, Hitman since it was unfortunately skipped over.
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Christopher Schröder wrote:Next Word: Assassin, Hitman since it was unfortunately skipped over.
Oh, sorry! Didn't see that! Would've taken that instead of rain if I had seen it.

I don't think it's that fitting a word for my culture, though, so I'll let someone else take it.
Online dictionary for my conlang Vanga: http://royalrailway.com/tungumaalMiin/Vanga/

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Poswa: tšušibi "to hatch and then kill" because of the way assassins hide in harmless objects such as trees and then come out and immediately fire their weapon. Sometimes tšuširafe is used to give more emphasis to the "kill" part of the word, which is mostly obsolete. Even though there are no guns or other such weapons on my conworld, it is still possible for someone with good shooting skill to kill from a distance.

Pabappa: pubapuradi "hidden killing" ... the same idea but with different morphemes and without the past tense infix that Poswa uses.

next: to jump with all four legs
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Soap wrote:next: to jump with all four legs
Illyrian: vierjaumscleuven, elnvierjaumecleuven (theoretical, literally "to four-Legs-jump" or "to all-four-Legs-jump"), cleuven by (eln) vier Jaume (a perhaps more-likely Phrase, "to jump with (all) four Legs)

Next Word: Vegetable Oil
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Christopher Schröder wrote:Next Word: Vegetable Oil
βὁᾳπνζὑκ
/bʱɤə̯ap.ndʑʱuk/

Next word: Eigengrau/Eigenlicht, that is, the color seen by the eye in perfect darkness.

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Hellesan

m murt-na-tunh "eigengrau", lit. "back dark".


Next word: asphalt
Un llapis mai dibuixa sense una mà.

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Izambri wrote:Hellesan

m murt-na-tunh "eigengrau", lit. "back dark".


Next word: asphalt
Uhwrāūphok-hu-wronphoka (Uhwrāūphok for short)
lit. - Viscous liquid rock which is thickly black (Thick liquid rock for short)

Next - Indigenous

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GrinningManiac wrote:Next - Indigenous
Illyrian: Lengeriar "something which is native or indigenous", lengeriarly "native, indigenous"

Next Word: Fruit Juice
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Bah. Ninjaed. The next word will remain the one Christopher gave, then.
GrinningManiac wrote:Uhwrāūphok-hu-wronphoka (Uhwrāūphok for short)
lit. - Viscous liquid rock which is thickly black (Thick liquid rock for short)

Next - Indigenous
Vanga:

vąulaimáhj
; to be indigenous; to be native (broad /ˈvã͡ũla͡imaːhj/, main dialect [ˈvã͡ʊ̃wa͡ɪmaːç]) (dictionary entry)

Etymology

Derived from the word vąu; here; there and the verb laimáhj; to be carried; to be born; encounter (dictionary entry), itself from laij; to carry; to conceive (dictionary entry).


Next word: fruit juice
Online dictionary for my conlang Vanga: http://royalrailway.com/tungumaalMiin/Vanga/

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http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36688

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Skomakar'n wrote:Bah. Ninjaed. The next word will remain the one Christopher gave, then.
GrinningManiac wrote:Uhwrāūphok-hu-wronphoka (Uhwrāūphok for short)
lit. - Viscous liquid rock which is thickly black (Thick liquid rock for short)

Next - Indigenous
Vanga:

vąulaimáhj
; to be indigenous; to be native (broad /ˈvã͡ũla͡imaːhj/, main dialect [ˈvã͡ʊ̃wa͡ɪmaːç]) (dictionary entry)

Etymology

Derived from the word vąu; here; there and the verb laimáhj; to be carried; to be born; encounter (dictionary entry), itself from laij; to carry; to conceive (dictionary entry).


Next word: fruit juice
cich diddr
cich - juice
didd- - fruit
-r - adjective marker

next word - plant (verb and noun)
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Turtlehead wrote:next word - plant (verb and noun)
Illyrian:
Gresse, -en, tha — Plant
Herbe, -es, tha — Grass
Séen — to sow seeds, to plant
gressen — to cover over with Plants, to landscape

Next Word: to deforest, to remove Plants
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Christopher Schröder wrote: Next Word: to deforest, to remove Plants
Giamulu:

kā’o - To harvest crops or gather [useful] plants from the wilderness

Next word: wilderness

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Hellesan

f serdanie –s "wilderness" » From serdà "wild".


Next word: bunker
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Izambri wrote:Next word: bunker
Kala - tahetsaka - lit: house underneath

next: community; colony

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sano wrote:next: community; colony
Vanga:

laulamla
; community; society; tribe; people; ethnicity (broad /ˈla͡ulamla/, main dialect [ˈla͡ʊlɑmlɑ]) (dictionary entry)

Etymology

Compound of the nouns lau; people (dictionary entry) and lamla; group; collection; flock (dictionary entry).


Next word: to sip
Online dictionary for my conlang Vanga: http://royalrailway.com/tungumaalMiin/Vanga/

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Skomakar'n wrote:Next word: to sip
Kala: sika

next: somewhat; perhaps

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sano wrote:next: somewhat; perhaps
Illyrian: ſondell

Next: Quirk
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Christopher Schröder wrote:Next: Quirk
Kòmo:
ganapaima [ŋãnaβãĩma] - quirk, unusual feature

Next word: recursion

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Theta wrote: Next word: recursion
In Gamûl: 몬가출닷안암 Mongachuldasan'am - self-calling (often shortened to 몬가차 around coders.)
derived from: 몬 = self, human; 가출다 = to call, to talk to (+ 안암 nominalizer)
consequentially, it's the same word as "talking to oneself".

Next word: The organ of knowlege for one's conculture (Most likely a brain, but for some it might be the heart?)

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Kevinnar wrote:Next word: The organ of knowlege for one's conculture (Most likely a brain, but for some it might be the heart?)
Illyrian:
Breugne (f) — Brain
Rhet (m) — Heart
Beûl (m) — Gut

Next Word: Typesetting
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Christopher Schröder wrote:Next Word: Typesetting
Kala: soku - font; typeface; typeset

next: body; form; style

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Klai:

srùk - form, shape
srùkeung - style

Next: threshold

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Poswa:
bammame (beginning of someone's property);
postalapsub (minimum, lower limit)

Pabappa would use Poswa loanwords for both senses.

next: spray (noun), spray hose
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Soap wrote:next: spray (noun), spray hose
Kala: sumu - to puff; to spout; to spray; to spurt

next: sound of beating a drum; onomatopoeic for rat-a-tat etc

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