Substantial postings about constructed languages and constructed worlds in general. Good place to mention your own or evaluate someone else's. Put quick questions in C&C Quickies instead.
éblas (noun) apple < PIE *h₂éblosapple
or daruneblis (noun) apple tree < PIE *dórutree and PIE *h₂éblosapple
or pamas arudras (noun phrase) red fruit < Latin pomusapple, fruit and PIE *h₁rudʰrósred
next word: silvan, of the woods, wooded area
[bɹ̠ˤʷɪs.təɫ] Nōn quālibet inīquā cupiditāte illectus hoc agō Yo te pongo en tu lugar... Taisc mach Daró
Poswa: bummis means "town in a forest" and can be used to indicate where forest people live even if they are not living in a static town with buildings and places to sleep. Plenty of words for forest itself exist, wumba is the most general purpose of these.
Šarlihet ja veressön elimaulbun mit uuzazu mardrömje(Karuslnko)
/ʃarlihet ja vɛrɛssœn ɛlimaʊlbun mɪt u:tsatsu mardrœmjɛ/
[lit: Love (n)+ and (conj)+ next to (prep)+eli-(prefix implying learning, teaching, education, etc)+language+ with+ 1(number)+counter for books+nightmare+instrumental case ending./
Šarlihet- Love (noun)+j
ja- and
veressön- next to (preposition)
eli- stem from elimu (education) and the verb elimure (to teach)
maul- language
Uu- from Uuo meaning 1 (one) (in this case the -o is dropped and the counter word for counting books: "zazu" is added)
Mardröm- Nightmare
-je (instrumental case ending)
-bun (suffix for literary works)
Next word : A word describing happiness and excitement.
EDIT: Whoops! Mixed up my conlangs! Karuslnko NOT Karani.
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Current Conlang Project: Karuslnko. http://karuslnkoconlang.wordpress.com
Well, time to see how Cretovanian turned out. This language borrows a lot from English, Russian, and Greek. It has many original lexical entries as well.
Next word: For those who have conworlds to go along with their conlangs, whatever the names of the countries (or other political bodies) that speak your conlangs are.
Tarannar wrote:Next word: For those who have conworlds to go along with their conlangs, whatever the names of the countries (or other political bodies) that speak your conlangs are.
Kala:
Kala does not belong to a conworld. However, Kala uses a suffix -tla to describe a language. This can be suffixed to a cultural group or political entity.
alapotla - Arabic (language) (alapo - Arab)
amenyatla - German (language) (amenya - Germany)
sipanyatla - Spanish (language) (sipanya - Spain) This particular construction straddles both language and culture. To distinguish dialects one could say mehikotla to identify Mexican Spanish, etc.
liyat [lij.at]: Swelling, lump on the skin. From lay, "pick up, raise," and at, "skin" skisan [ski.san]: insect bite, pimple. From ska, "louse, annoyance," and san, "red, red thing"
Talāṃ leya kalakena rāmah, saktalām peha leya bhūmena ca. See a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower. Omkāṃs tava sutvantayam pharo, 'naiṃ le' jeś ca. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.