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setetneᶅ [ˈsɛtɛtsˌnɛʎ~ˈsɛtɛdˌnɛʎ] seatbelt, from setet seat, seated, sat, past participle of seten to sit + neᶅ belt

next: social class

Ascima mresa óscsma sáca psta numar cemea.
Cemea tae neasc ctá ms co ísbas Ascima.
Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho.

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zqatam jonduri [ˈzʁataŋ ˈdʒonduri] social class, from zqat 'tribe' + jonduri, resultative noun from joma 'stratify, differentiate'

Next: electronic cigarette
Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.

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nicáitía sdrita [niˈkoːitiːjɔ ˈzdriːtɔ] electronic cigarette (plural nicáitíe sdrite), from nicáitía (nicáit electron, past/mediopassive participle of nicáir to conduct, ignite, illuminate + -ía roughly -ic) + sdrita cigarette

next: cowboy

Ascima mresa óscsma sáca psta numar cemea.
Cemea tae neasc ctá ms co ísbas Ascima.
Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho.

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äreo wrote:next: cowboy
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ikülep sen yur vyàkxïldörilàrenvēcä - someone who often rides on the backs of dorilas (cows don't exist in Rahturi so dorila is the next best thing, being reptilian cattle)

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Next: sky
Vayah, mechraeya, echriya.
(water-air, great-expansivity, expansion)

Next: Horizon.
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.

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Karuslnko: Pösunålišö /lit. Skyline sea/
Next: Suspicious
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Eng: suspicious
National Symphonian: [lɨ kan dɛ lɑ] лыкандела
NS Old Romanization: leukandela
NS Revised Romanization: lykandela

next: Eng: optimum, as in optimum conditions (wait, I think that's obvious, whatever lol)

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English: optimum
Rovörgelskar: badir /bɑː.dər/
Note: badir is used as both an adjective and a noun.
Next: chimney (a vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydro-carbon based fuels); a flue)

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Next: chimney (a vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydro-carbon based fuels); a flue)
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Taru m. Chimney, flue, from súlis tarúdvíjelejs, eye of through-smoking

Next word: smithy, blacksmith's

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Pabappa: saspunem, from saspun "to heat in order to reshape" + -m, a locative suffix. Oddly the word seems to be missing from Poswa; it would have been saswunem if it had carried over the same morphemes.

next word: kelp, seaweed
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Celtich: viváin [vʲivaːinʲ], from Proto-Celtic wimmānis "seaweed"

next word: hero
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Yewedu:

ǰaxîhìnù [dʒaxi̤ːɦi̤nṳ] - "hero; any larger-than-life character of myth or legend." From Wendoth gaxaihi- "be respected, renowned" + -nu "animate agent nominalizer," with reduplication of the first syllable.

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'ûmezenù [ʔṳːmɛz̪ɛnṳ] - "hero; an exceptionally righteous and honorable person." From Wendoth umejha- "have honor" + -nu "animate agent nominalizer," with reduplication of the first syllable.

next word: (to) inspire

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Bok sa has no specific word to inspire, but common cultural belief is that ideas and creativity come from dreams, therefore:

to inspire; doă pȩlâ ăhdz ănă ŏbæ; translated as "to make beautiful dreams real"

Next word: to love ( romantically, friendly, family and however many different variations your language happens to have)

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Celtich:
gráth [graːθ] n. "love", from Proto-Celtic gʷrātus "love"
carait [karatʲ] v. "to love", from Proto-Celtic karaje/o- "to love"
caranth [karanθ] n."friend", from Proto-Celtic karants "friend", same root as previous.

next word: (two words!!!) slender/narrow and broad/wide
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Ngolu:

taxi :: (v) is <narrow> [↔ zoma]
zoma :: (v) is <wide> <broad> [great in extent from side to side, ↔ taxi]

tuenu :: (v) is <thin> <slim> <slender> [thin in two dimensions, eg. stick, arm, body, ↔ javu, cf. tise, tuaka]
tuaka :: (v) is <skinny> <scrany> <slight> [↔ javu, cf. tuenu]
javu :: (v) is <thick> <solid> <burly> <beefy> <heavily built> <stocky> [thick in two dimensions, eg. stick, tree, thigh, body, man, ↔ tuenu, tuaka, cf. laba]

tise :: (v) is <thin> [in one dimension, eg. paper, blanket, ↔ laba, cf. tuenu]
laba :: (v) is <thick> [thick in one dimension, eg. book, blanket, mattress, paper, ↔ tise, cf. javu]

Next: to do without / go without / make do without
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P'afposh:
Bristel wrote:next word: hero
latsots ['latsots] n. great warrior/protector, hero
IndieAuthor wrote:Next word: to love ( romantically, friendly, family and however many different variations your language happens to have)
fɛr [fɛr] (+ DAT) v. care for, provide for, love; protect, guard
tshat [tʃat] (+ DAT) v. look up to, depend on, love; care for, provide for; be tender, patient
ish [ʔiʃ] v. dream, dream of; think about, ponder; (+ DAT) fancy, lust after, (by extension) have sex with
Imralu wrote:Next: to do without / go without / make do without
khɛstshĩ [kʰɛs'tʃĩ] v. persevere (esp. during hard times or times of want), overcome, succeed

Next: to trip over
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Znex wrote:Next: to trip over
Fiz:
qiləd - to fall over; to trip; slip

Next: potato or other type of tuber

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Theta wrote:Next: potato or other type of tuber
Ancient Wangtan:
Pomhom - Potato, Yam, Tuber.

Next: Noodle

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Genome wrote:Next: Noodle
ʔuulhomoo:
uukomul [ˈuːkomul] (obl. uukomlu) - noodle

From uuko, the oblique form of vook "knife," and mul "buckwheat." Buckwheat was the traditional staple of the ʔuuleo, and buckwheat noodles were cut by hand using a knife, hence the derivation.

Next: savoriness/umami (one of the five basic tastes)

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vook becomes uuko? That's impressive. I love heavily fusional languages like that where the whole word can change.
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Publipis wrote:vook becomes uuko? That's impressive. I love heavily fusional languages like that where the whole word can change.
Both ʔuulhomoo and its immediate ancestor, Satnímʔa, mark two different cases, the direct and the oblique. In the latter, the distinction was based on stress position on the root (this being the last remnant of an older system involving more complex stem alternations, which in turn was derived from a set of case-marking suffixes). In the dialect of Satnímʔa ancestral to ʔuulhomoo, "knife" was vóhki in the direct case and vohkí in the oblique, which were pronounced [ˈʋoxki] and [ʋoxˈki], respectively.

Now, in both languages, /ʋ/ is in more-or-less free variation with [w], and becomes either or [ʊ] (based on a system of +/-ATR harmony) when morphological processes result in it not being adjacent to a syllable nucleus. In Satnímʔa this happened only in a few unusual cases, but unstressed short vowels were lost early in the history of ʔuulhomoo. Thus, [ˈʋoxki] and [ʋoxˈki] became [ʋoxk] and [uxki], which through regular sound changes and analogy became [ʋoːk] and [uːko].

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new word: concept
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Nvomi~

simo - concept, idea, thought
druma - concept, plan, process, sketch
drumamu - to be part of a plan, to originate as a concept, to be a thought, to be imagined
simoru - to be unable to focus on something because of another distraction; (of an idea) to clash with another idea
drumayu - to concoct a wild plan
simoyu - to ruminate, wonder, imagine



And Nvomi has no words for tastes, so:

nhyogo - umami/savory
vloyi - bitter, bad-tasting
nyuta - sweet
sma - salty
jochi - spicy
imo - tasteless, weak flavor
nhyogola, vloyila, etc. - to be a little savory, bitter, etc.
nhyovlola, nhyonyula, joila, vlosla, sjonhyola, etc. - to be savory and bitter, to be savory and sweet, to be spicy but weak, to be bitter and salty, to be salty spicy and savory, etc.
nhyogochi, vloyichi, etc. - to be primarily savory, bitter, etc.

Next: to catch on, to snag on

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Poswa: paepom "get hooked, be hooked"; also a word for a loop in clothing used to hang things on coathooks. From Proto-Pabappa saipasum, from Diʕì sài pàsun. Because in Poswa the verbs are mostly just noun roots that become verbs when verbal endings are added to them.
I'd like to do more languages but every othger language is juts violent words like "claw, talon". But thanks, you helped me find a major error in my spreadsheet. The wroot word should be "paus", not "pàsu". Still, oddly, enough, it gives the same result in Poswa.
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next word: reward, dessert, something earned as a prize for hard work
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Publipis wrote:next word: reward, dessert, something earned as a prize for hard work
Vayardyio:

séfalido - prize, reward

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delicatessen (as in: fine food, delicacy)
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