Lexicon Building

[WanderlustKoko]

Next: shepherd

Karuslnko: Tamfårdžin /tamfo:rdʒin/ (Lit- Sheep person)

Next: Fortune-teller

[spanick]

Next: Fortune-teller

khulíqu /xu.liː.qu/ "shaman" (lit. spirit-instrument) There is no direct word for fortune teller in Dnukta'u but there closest thing is terms of role in society and archetype is the shaman. Once an integral part of Fi'd religion, the shaman was largely supplanted by the khilg̃g̃u (priest) in later days and took on a much more folksy, backwoods connotation. The shamans are now more associated with fortune telling, magic, and potions than they are with mainstream Fi'd religion.

khal /xal/ "to tell a fortune, to divine" from the same root (xVl) as khulíqu. From this word it is possible to derive khalmu "fortune teller" but this is not at all in use by the Fui'd.

Next: bride and groom

[hwhatting]

Next: bride and groom

Tautisca; westor "groom", weduma "bride", both derived from westen "marry, take a wife"; westor is the agent noun, weduma originally a present passive participle, so the bride is "the one being married". Tautisca encodes marriage as an act the man as agent performs on the wife as passive object.

Next: cloth, fabric

[Markski]

aderu- to weave, spin
adesov- verbal noun of aderu, i.e. "stuff that is woven, fabric, cloth"
adewek- to weave + substantive suffix, same meaning

Next word: banana (or any funny-sounding yellow fruit in your conworld)

[Pedant]

Hūam Pōu Gīu "banana" (Yugam Pōul Gigut, from Kroldistani Jinjut "long fruit")
Vāu Pǒ Jū "banana"
Hùŋ Pò Ḥū "banana; native of Filaipo"

And in tribute, the next is:
Servant, minion, assistant

[spanick]

And in tribute, the next is:
Servant, minion, assistant

úhu /ʔuː.hu/ "servant, slave" noun formed from the root ʔVh with the general meaning of serving, slavery
áhmu /ʔaːh.mu/ "servant, server, waiter/waitress" from the same root as above, agentive noun from the verb ʔaːh "to serve"
pallmu /palː.mu/ "helper, assistant" agentive noun from the verbpall "to help, lend assistance, assist"

Next: to interrogate, to question

[hwhatting]

Next: to interrogate, to question

Tautisca: parpruchten "question, interrogate, test (knowledge)" (intensifying prefix par- + prochten "ask")

Next: prepare

[Carolina Conlanger]

Next: prepare

Orisiyan: Aheo "to prepare, to make ready, to fortify"

Next: fire

[Jonlang]

Next: fire

Quebric: Taffnos "fire (masculine noun)" /'taf.nɒs/

Next: to lie, to speak an untruth

[hwhatting]

Next: to lie, to speak an untruth

Tautisca: luchiten (cognate with Enflish lie)

Next: lake

[Pedant]

Hūam Pōu
Kā "freshwater lake"
Gìam "saltwater lake"

Next: golem

[Soap]

Hūam Pōu
Kā "freshwater lake"
Gìam "saltwater lake"

Next: golem

Poswa: bammae

Pabappa: pamaburta

I adopted this word from a video game called Mystic Quest back in 1992 without really knowing what it meant. Thus, it has been floating around for 25 years as a "basic word" in every conlang Ive made since then, except for examples like Pabappa where sound changes have made it necessary to replace it with a compound. Thus, unlike most words I post here, there is no etymology. But Hebrew "golem" seems to just be their word for pupa, so that's not so bad?

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next:

health, medical state of one's body

[Jonlang]

Poswa: bammae

Pabappa: pamaburta
next:

health, medical state of one's body

Quebric: lheren "health" masculine noun /ˈɬɛr.ɛn/

Next: to shine, sparkle, glimmer etc.

[din]

Tormiott:


outtha ˈuːθːa (v) to glitter, to sparkle
- ouh- uħ (pref of motion) all over, all around, all over the place, here and there, scattered, sporadic, diffuse
- tha θa (v) to shimmer, to glimmer

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nextː

bookmaker

[Pedant]

Hūam Pōu
Antéu Gobau "book-binder, maker of books" (AM 'person'+TÉU 'make', GOBAU "book")
Anhou ja "bookmaker, turf accountant" (AM 'person'+HOU 'promise', JA 'bet, wager')

Next:
Business sense, shrewdness

[din]

@Pedant: A bookmaker isn't usually 'a maker of books', but one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmaker. You translated 'bookbinder'

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Tormiott:

odanuocce ˈoðɪˌnwokːə (v) to be cunning, to be shrewd, to be crafty, to be wily
- oda- ˈoðə (pref) similar to, like
- nuocce ˈnwokːə (n) fox

piacchaden ˈpiakxɪðən (n) business sense
- piac- pjak (pref) study of..., skill of..., (corpus of) knowledge about...
- chaden ˈxɛðən (n) merchant, vendor, seller
- - chen xən (v) to give; to sell (to disambiguate also o coper chen, lit. to give by making use of money); to exist (there is, there are; only if used in existential clauses together with the impersonal pronoun)

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nextː tablecloth

[Pedant]

Hūam Pōu:
Gáotal "tablecloth" (GÁO 'bench, table (for eating)' TAL 'cloth, fabric')

Thanks for the correction, Din! Duly noted and corrected!

Next: fluff

[HerljosScheindorf]

In Xerossu :

inanuak and inanun
lot of furry, furry, fluffy

nuk
soft fur, fluff

nuataklu
rought fur

nuktika
balls of fluff


next word : momentum

[Imralu]

Wena:

ni zombo - momentum (from ni "air", also used to form abstracta, zo 'move' and mbo 'stay')

Next: caterpillar

[din]

Tormiott:

cadaindorh ˈkɛðɛːndəɹ (n) caterpillar
- cadain ˈkɛðɛːn (n) fang
- - cain kɛːn (v) to grab; to clutch; to clasp onto, to attach, to link up
- dorh doɹ (n) bug, insect; critter; small demon

Literally, fang bug

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next: earthquake

[Soap]

Tormiott:

cadaindorh ˈkɛðɛːndəɹ (n) caterpillar
- cadain ˈkɛðɛːn (n) fang
- - cain kɛːn (v) to grab; to clutch; to clasp onto, to attach, to link up
- dorh doɹ (n) bug, insect; critter; small demon

Literally, fang bug

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next: earthquake

Poswa: laptapustila, from lapta "gravity, earth, what lies below" and pustila "to shake, to cause something to vibrate". One might expect the reflexive form of the verb, pustilap, to be used instead, but it is understood that the Earth is what is shaking because they view the ground as an inanimate object, incapable of acting on any other entity.

The verb form is
Lapta pustižaža., which is a passive verb. A similar construction is used to describe weather, so this can be thought of as analogous to an English speaker saying "it is earthquaking now". It would still be acceptable to just scream "Laptapustila!" by itself without using a verb, just as in English one can say "Earthquake!" by itself without a verb.

Pabappa:
laptapustila Kind of a disappointment, as the word is spelled the same and the morpheme breakdown is the same. Pabappa has no passive verbs so I am not sure yet how this would be used in an ordinary sentence with a verb.

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next:

plateau, large raised area of land

[HerljosScheindorf]

Xerossu :

radical : ixtoßa (ix-to-ss-ah)
void tonality : ixtoß (ix-tos)
dont know how to form the other 14 tonalities yet

"plateau","superior part of a cliff"

next word : black hole
(it's sholhuatl in xerossu, and also the name of the 15th letter)

pronunciations : http://vocaroo.com/i/s1fJhkNBTLkC

[hwhatting]

next word : black hole

The Tautínai don't know the concept, but if in contact with modern Terran astronomy, they could calque it as cornun caulun (cornus "black", caulun "hole)

Same calque in the other languages of Tarra:
Lemba Romana: ['kavu 'negru]
Məda:n: [su:r 'negrə]
Ilan: baf neir

Next: heart

[Pedant]

Hūam Pōu:

Lōnam "heart (organ that pumps blood)"
Gàoyam "liver (organ associated with positive emotion)" (note that the -(y)am suffix denotes bodily organs)

Keyler equivalents: Lwanäm /lunam/, ʔyakäm /ʔiəkam/

Next: eyesocket

[HerljosScheindorf]

Xerossu :

ayinsholku
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0m470uol0FR

lexical field :
ayin eye
bayin to see
ayincoytl eyelids


next word : hyena