Lexicon Building

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Kuroras mṡ (/ms:/, often with an epenthetic schwa)
Poswa wemblo
Pabappa blanip, also mus which is cognate to (but not loaned from) the Kuroras word above

No etymologies, which is unusual for me, but I'll get there eventually.


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Soap wrote:next word:

''abortion''
Aidisese:

Wawivestan - "abortion". Originally an ungrammatical street slang term combining "Wawi", meaning "baby", with "vestan", the terminative aspect suffix; as time went by, the ungrammatical-ness of the term was forgotten and it was used in normal speech.


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Tarandim: donnerande, 'a collection of reports', 'chronicle', 'history', presumably from Geminon's Ekaisagi neça borge a donnerande, lit. Compilation of the reports concerning the war against the Kaysan, better known as Reports of the Kaysan war or A chronicle of the Kaysan wars. < From the perfective of donne, 'to make sure' + the collective suffix -nde < proto-Tarandic *dowŋ, 'to be sure'.

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Hellesan:

f. aur laurejantedh "electoral fraud". Etymology: of aur: from Peran anber– “injury”, “hurt”, “broke”, from ana– “in”, “upon”, “in excess” + nber– “to broke”; of laurejantedh: from Peran laureantediu “electoral”, from laureantea "election" + -ediu (adjec.).


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Proto-Vdangku:
růong inzqūze n. ancestor, older relatives - lit. "old person", since they believe life continues after death, those who have died still continue to exist and are referred to as such.
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Hellesan:

f. lhamede nuscre or nuscre lhamede "next word". Etymology: of lhamede: from Peran lambede “word”, from Sate LAMBA–, from LAM–; of nuscre: from Peran nuskari “following”, “which goes second”, from Meg. neoskares “second”.

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Izo wrote: Next word: household deity
gedores, related to ige, fire and gedo, hearth < proto-Tarandic *gri

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Amakese: ḫudros, masculine of ḫudra, "hen". It is thus cognate to Kohanese chúdherrH and chúdherL, respectively- both being from Proto-Northern *xūders, *xūderā.

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dhokarena56 wrote:Amakese: ḫudros, masculine of ḫudra, "hen". It is thus cognate to Kohanese chúdherrH and chúdherL, respectively- both being from Proto-Northern *xūders, *xūderā.

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Poswa blabel bedžy (blaba "paper" in the essive case, plus bedžy "sheet, blanket")
Pabappa plabel pepua (same as above)

Kuroras kʰògō but technically that just means "book leaf"

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Soap wrote:Next word: necklace
Kala: oyo - bead / necklace / jewel(ry)

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sano wrote:next word: significant
Aidisese:
Hena - literally, "important", or "significant"


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unisberisda [unipeɾita]- university
obviously a loan from Spanish

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Karani: You can either use "Muun[mu:u:n]" or "Iskimingo"[i:zkʰi:mi:ŋo] to get "to fry" out of. If you are referring to cooking than "muun" would work better but if you're referring to something else that is frying then you would use "Iskimingo" as it relates to fire and heat.
Muun- to keep something refridgerate something, to put something in the freeze, to heat up something in the microwave (on a stove, and other cooking related activity)
Iskimingo- Everything related to fire

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Koko.Dk wrote:Next: v ethical / virtuous
Kala: hitsua - just / morally fair / righteous / ethical / virtuous

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sano wrote:next word: refuge
Maka - aítèmai - lit. kindly gathering place

Ji tu aítèmai mao. Go to the refuge

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valiums wrote:next word: okay, alright, fine
Kala: tipa - OK / okay / all right / alright / good / acceptable

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Kuroras xʷáʕʷòsi, which literally means "that which surrounds the hair", a type of heavy fur jacket worn in very cold climates. Later the meaning shifted to torso-only jackets and then to sweaters.

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Hellesan:

f. timne –s "pollen". Etymology: neolog. from Class. Sarden thymne “scattered dust”, “big smoke”, “suspended particles”, taken from Drusnian thumne “dust”, “dust off”, from Sing. dheu– “dust”, “smoke”, “vapor”.


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Izo wrote:Next word: myrtle
Athanic:

myŕtello "myrtle bush" [myrtelːɔ] from Latin myrtillus

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peŕvinca "periwinkle" [pervinka] from Latin pervinca

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bersiḳon /bersiˈkʼõn/; from ber-, bara "heavy, strong" and siḳo "smell"

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Ciecha-- Pendisqusquian for gossip

From Scuriean: cievicchiane (to talk behind someone elses's back)

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In Saimiar, karøpo, "vacant, empty, hollow". Unanalyzable root, unfortunately, not much interesting stuff to say about it.

Next word, "on top of"
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con quesa wrote:Next word, "on top of"
Kala: ua'e - on top / above / on / about

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Poswa:
pwamia from the verb pwam "to reach up", plus a phonologically reduced form of a word (waba) that means sister. (pwamwaba > pwamwea > pwamwia > pwamia)

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Soap wrote: next word:
devil, demon
Aidisese:

Newato - devil, demon. A burrowing from the Xemarian Nhiuttio, who was a demon spirit in Xemarian folklore. Stories of Nhiuttio became popular in Aidis, and the Aidisese version, Newato, became the word for any kind of evil spirit in general (sort of like Ghoul in English).


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