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In Latha, 'cloud' is 'mepata'

me = white, pa = air, ta = thing

next word: spicy

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ashmoonfruit wrote:next word: spicy
Kala:

마으
ma'u
to be spicy hot (taste); fig. biting (criticism)

next: to pioneer a frontier area; to open up new territory

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masako wrote:
ashmoonfruit wrote:next word: spicy
Kala:

마으
ma'u
to be spicy hot (taste); fig. biting (criticism)

next: to pioneer a frontier area; to open up new territory
In Aćiarień: vamne ['vɐm,nɛ] (verb) to settle new land; to claim the new land to the north

next: the artisan class/caste

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VT45 wrote: next: the artisan class/caste
ækdrId: artisanal; highly experienced in an art; this is where the name for "Agdrid City" came from



I'll also do this one, since it was missed.
masako wrote: next: highly eligible bachelor; desirable male partner
siːrʌijoʊsæ: to be romantically desirable (no gender specific terms)


next:
motor vehicle
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Jerian_Nostigia wrote: next:
motor vehicle
Mauretanian:
avtomovil [əf.tɔ.ˈmo.vi͡ɪ̯l] - automobile; from Spanish, "automovil"
cuch [ˈkutɕ] - automobile; also from Spanish, "coche"
sayahr [ˈsa.ʝaʊ̯ɾ] - motorised vehicle (of any type), from Arabic, "sayaara"

Next word: An electronic entertainment system; dedicated video-game machine.
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Caleone wrote:Next word: An electronic entertainment system; dedicated video-game machine.
Aćiarień: a lexical gap, as the technology doesn't exist. But I suppose the closest they would come would be something like this:

laaneń bos (noun): a mythical technology that some say existed before the Fall that harnessed the power of lightning to perform magic and make life easier.

Next: hurricane, typhoon, and/or cyclone (does your language even differentiate between them?)

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VT45 wrote: Next: hurricane, typhoon, and/or cyclone (does your language even differentiate between them?)

Zarian:

Tornado: Matlas'tulduris: A Matlashtan storm (Matlashta being the only place in the world they occur)

Hurricane: Keridj'tulduris: A Khaurijydyymian storm (don't ask me how you pronounce that name. I came up with it when I was 9. I usually just say KRJD)


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Jerian_Nostigia wrote:Next: a sheet of paper
Kala:

가미
kami

next: boundless; vast

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sano wrote:
Jerian_Nostigia wrote:Next: a sheet of paper
Kala:

가미
kami

next: boundless; vast
Mauretanian: ühda /yːda/ [ˈɔʏ.də], adj. wide; large; vast from PGmc, "wīdaz"

Next word: An expert in a profession; someone recognised for skill in a particular area
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Caleone wrote:Next word: expert
Kala:

몬가
monka
expert; adept; experienced; an expert; a professional

next: to enter without permission; to trespass

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sano wrote:next: to enter without permission; to trespass
Vanga:

mlo‹›wq-
; to go without permission; to sneak away (Swedish smita, more or less)
zní-; toward; LATIVE
zní-mlo‹›wq-; to sneak into/toward [someone/something] (TRANSITIVE)

sausasaji znímloluquhmauzi
sa‹›w-ˤh-z-ˤ‹j›i zní-mlo‹l›wq-ʷf-m-ˤ‹w-z›i
you snuck into my home / you entered my home without permission
to_be_home-3P-INAN-OBJ<1P> LAT-to_go_unpermitted/sneak<PAST>-TRA-2P-OBJ<3P-INAN>
[ˈs̻ɑʊ̯s̻ɑs̻ˌɑɪ̯jɯ̯ ˈz̻niːmlɔɾʊqʊ̤̯̃ɸpm̥ˌɑʊ̯z̻ɯ̯]

Next: to snuggle
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Skomakar'n wrote: Next: to snuggle

tərɪd: to have sexual intercourse

æntrɪlræ: intimacy without intercourse


next word:

to impregnate
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Jerian_Nostalgia wrote:next word:

to impregnate
Icastrian: zilgollais [ˈsɪlgollaʃ]
etymology: zilga "pregnant" + causative suffix -ol(lais)

Next: to anger, to make angry
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Colonel Cathcart wrote:Next: to anger, to make angry
Kala:

어노
eno
[e:no]
anger; to be angry; upset; mad

next: eliminate, remove, except

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sano wrote:eliminate, remove, except
Alahithian: ricaw

Next word: rumour
It was about time I changed this.

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ol bofosh wrote:Next word: rumour
Tautisca: claumun, neuter n-stem, derived from cluten "hear"

Next word: message

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hwhatting wrote:Next word: message
Kàmo: nagima - message (spoken or written)

Next word: hostile

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Hostile:
malikra: to be hostile (v)
malikar: hostile (n)

next:

lucid dream
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Jerian wrote:next: lucid dream
Kala:

삐마갸
mpimakya
"awake dreaming"

next: tenant farmer; sharecropper

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sano wrote:next: tenant farmer; sharecropper
Icastrian has osomors [ˈosomɔr̥s], one who works under the system of osomath ([ˈosomaθ] or [ˈosomaː], from oso "share, stock"), a type of sharecropping which replaced serfdom following the Acts of Manumission of 1912. While metropolitan Icastria is highly industrialized and urbanized, the provinces are still largely agrarian, and the majority of provincial subjects work as osomorsou.

Next: to make a mistake
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Colonel Cathcart wrote:Next: to make a mistake
Kala:

하다
hata
['ha:ta]
error; mistake; mistaken; blunder

next: concerned; troubled; having sth on one's mind

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sano wrote:next: concerned; troubled; having sth on one's mind
Tautisca: parborruwatus, past participle of parborruwaten "to trouble, worry; occupy, keep busy", derived from borrus "heavy"

Next: voice

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hwhatting wrote:Next: voice
Kàipói:

moà - /bo̯ã˨/ [bʷo̯ã˨] - voice

Next: to dwell

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Hellesan

v. itandir "to dwell" » From Middle Peran entanediri "to dwell", lit. "to sit on".

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

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Izambri wrote:Next word: basalt
Kala:

고노
kono
['ko:no]
ash; dust; lime; gray; rock; stone; basalt

next: meager; slight

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