Lexicon Building

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Adanrima-lâba:

higân 'cordial, Spontaneous' (Ethymology: higâ 'life' + -n 'adjectival ending')
also Pâthadâisân 'honest' (Pât 'to talk' + Hadâ 'truth' +isâ 'but, just, only' + -n 'adjectival ending')

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legolasean wrote:Next word: Waterfall
Rutān: putārasprig from putāra - "water" and casprig - "to fall"
Next word: sponge

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ûndûnâma 'sponge' (ûndû 'stone' + nâm 'water' + -a 'of')
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legolasean wrote:Next word: unicorn
Kala: tlapahyanao

tlapa - horn; cone; wedge

-hya - animal

-nao - singularity; one of

next: to feel sorry for a person over sth that should have happened

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sano wrote:next: to feel sorry for a person over sth that should have happened
Rutān: catūgati - to feel sorry, from tūga - sorrow
Next word: roof

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2-4 wrote:Next word: roof
Kala: tapa - lid; top; cover; canopy; roof

next: throwing the hammer (athletics event)

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sano wrote: next: throwing the hammer (athletics event)
Yoab: Goyan Xurenissonu- lit. Wedge-Inward Throwing-Gerund-Infinitive
"Hammer Throwing"

next word: stock broker
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Helios wrote:next word: stock broker
Kala: tsuasiko [tʃʷasi:ko]

tsuasi - stock; share; capital raised by a company

ko - agentive

next: to extend; to spread

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sano wrote: next: to extend; to spread
Kàmo:
oín- [õˈĩn] - spread out

Next word: to sneak; prowl around

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Theta wrote:Next word: to sneak; prowl around
Kala: hipa - to infiltrate; to sneak into

next: to cycle; to circulate

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sano wrote:
Theta wrote:Next word: to sneak; prowl around
Kala: hipa - to infiltrate; to sneak into

next: to cycle; to circulate
lowet - to move in the shape of a circle
lou-et
around-V

louleot - to pass around, to circulate
lou-leot
around-pass

löüdauhet - to come into a cycle/unending loop
löü-dauh-et
exist.GNOM-again-V

(Probably irrelevant, but yeah)
There are no direct translations for "to cycle" in the sense of riding on a bicycle, but a cycle can be coupled with the following verbs.

fíxadĺ hàg/xut - come/go by cycling
fíxad esyà - use a bicycle
fíxad syöb - ride a bicycle as a passenger
fí-xad
fast-wheel

Next word: to research, to investigate
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Wigbalcad (wiɪ̬gbaːlkət) - research
Wigdibalcaz (wiɪ̬gdiːbaːlkɔz) - to research

Next word- ring (geography)
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legolasean wrote:Next word- ring (geography)
Did you mean geometry?
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Of an Ernst'ian one.

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yeah... oops Fail...
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I think I had a word for that, but I've forgotten it, so I'll make up a new one. I have a rough idea of what it was.

Vanga:

nunu‹›n-
; to be circular; to be round and flat; to be a ring

Next word: choir
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Skomakar'n wrote:Next word: choir
Kala: tli'apuako - [tɬiʔapʷa:ko]

tli- = collective plural

apua = to sing; chant

-ko = agentive

next: tight; strict; close at hand

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Skomakar'n wrote:
legolasean wrote:Next word- ring (geography)
Did you mean geometry?
How about you coin a word for crater which is derived from the word for ring?

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sano wrote:next: tight; strict; close at hand

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Jesus, can you be any more passive aggressive? And weren't you were leaving this site forever?

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Actually, I'm just really keen on doing some lexicon building.

So...
sano wrote:next: tight; strict; close at hand

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Illyrian:
reid [ɾeːd] (adj.) — strict, demanding, insistent (CGmc *rekhtaz, Old Illyr regda)
reiden ['ɾeː.dɨn] (v.) — to insist
nery ['nɛ.ɾɪ] (adj. inv.) — narrow, petty, bothersome, troublesome (CGmc *naragaz? Old Illyr naerig)

Next Word: Aggression
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Christopher Schröder wrote:Next Word: Aggression
HMJ: viqenšš (from <dictatorship>), absr.

Next word: scotch tape / sellotape / duct tape
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Wattmann wrote:Next word: scotch tape / sellotape / duct tape
Kala: sinta - to adhere; to stick to; to bond; to agglutinate; adhesion; adhesive; tape

next: to touch; to come in contact with; to feel

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sano wrote:
Wattmann wrote:Next word: scotch tape / sellotape / duct tape
Kala: sinta - to adhere; to stick to; to bond; to agglutinate; adhesion; adhesive; tape

next: to touch; to come in contact with; to feel
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Gloss: to reach out, has connotation of encounter, rendezvous or meeting (again or for the first time); intent is not necessarily part of it.
Combine with the word for 'sticky' (sumec) and you get the phrasal verb for 'piqué interest/catch their eye' but in a bad way. A 'sticky person' is someone persistent you want to lose, whether a detective or a 'clingy' lover. But it cuts both ways, as a fly which buzzes around, flitting everywhere so indiscreetly, may meet a sticky end. So a 'sticky feel(ing)' is used where English would use 'fishy, unease.' In addition there is the connotation of 'grasping' i.e. a sticky touch, and with it snare/entrapment and the extension of 'trolling' (which also has the simple translation of bait; this word extends into the domains of 'goad', 'taunt', 'rise' and 'obscene' however.) So the meaning extends beyond intent into the realms of desperation and feeling and the opposite, calculation and waiting, but always need and sometimes desire.

A famous poem refers to the half known species of sundew in a devious use of punning which in its English translation is attempted as "a fly's sundewing", but it really might just be too cute. Anyway, this is taken to be said plant's prerogative.

Next: fleshy
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meltman wrote:Next: fleshy
Ahu:

zahu : is meat : is muscle : is contractile tissue found in animals
mubu : is fat : is soft body tissue where energy is stored as lipids
sema : is a cushion : is a (soft) pad

ié zahu : is muscular : contains (some) muscle : is meaty
bié zahu : is muscular : contains a great deal of muscle : is meaty

ié mubu : is fatty : contains (some) fat : is fleshy
bié mubu : is very fatty : contains a great deal of fat : (of a person) is fat

ié sema : is cushioned : is padded : is fleshy (eg. buttocks)
bié sema : is cushioned all over : is well-padded : is very fleshy

Next: a draft, cool air which enters from outside
Glossing Abbreviations: COMP = comparative, C = complementiser, ACS / ICS = accessible / inaccessible, GDV = gerundive, SPEC / NSPC = specific / non-specific
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