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.
itwitqasta [itwitx̠astæ] - to speak aggressively or obscenely and thereby relieve one's pain
From qasta, "to speak obscenely or with inappropriate aggressiveness," and atwat, "to be relieved of pain, to recuperate physically"
next: joke
Poswa and Pabappa: pumblup, from pumblu "to laugh" (considered an emotion). This covers also the sense of laughably poor performance or being out of place, e.g. "P-Mobile's 4G coverage is a joke outside their home city".
sus mitlat [ʃuʃ mitlæt] - to repulse; literally, to impart in another a longing to turn away
A phrase made up of the causative particle sus and the compound verb mitlat, from mat "to turn around, turn away" and lat, "to long, be metaphorically pulled by internal forces"
Concentrate:krǒu-ngārę̂u 'to point/orient the mind/will'
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krǒu: (vb) to point, direct, orient (an object toward a certain direction) ngārę̂u: bound form of ngę̂u: (n) the entity responsible for conscious processes in a human, and/or such processes: mind, will, spirit
The bound form of a noun indicates (among other things) possession; in verbs with incorporated objects such as this one, the bound form indicates that the compound verb can take an object, which corresponds to the possessor of the object (here, the person whose mind is concentrating).
Next:cotyledon(s), the first two (sometimes one) leaves that open when a seed sprouts, which generally look different (more simple) to the shape of the plant's normal 'adult' leaves.
Bunson's Unnamed Conlang For Spellcasting (In A Story She May Or May Not Actually Write) mintunen pimalendoaku (literally "leaves of sprouting"-- mintunen is the nominative singular of mintum; manendoaku is the genitive of the gerund [pimalendon] of pimaler.)
Next-- messenger
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1. characteristic, presence of an attribute: pócutatu, noun derived from pócus "which, what kind of" (a calque of Latin qualitas)
2. standard of a product: sudichtutatu, noun derived from sudichtus "well-made" < su- (prefix) "good" + dichtus Past Passive Participle of dichten "make"
buržvwerbubus "influenced by emotions". The word for psychology itself could be buržvwerpablam "knowledge of emotions".
Unusually for me, I don't have any further etymology for the large unbreakable root word buržvweb "emotions", other than that it comes from the parent language form beužemiu. Bubus is from bimibišus which is related to the word for family (bimiu) and pablam is from pamiam.