Lexicon Building

[maıráí]

[benadam]

Oha [ɔ:ha]: orgasm (onomatopoeic )

next: dance

[Imralu]

OT:

dohmen /do"h\me~/ I harvest
There are no infinitives in this lang, the root would be dohm-.

Do you have gerunds?

[Gaspard]

ciek, m: dance
cieket: to dance

next: consciousness

[eodrakken]

sisóvug f. consciousness, state of being neither asleep nor comatose nor dead nor inanimate (fr. Kulae siansóphukhi "not-sleeping")

lárke adj. conscious, sentient, having the mind of an intelligent being (fr. Kulae láhilkhun "in knowing")


next: compassionate

[äreo]

milone - v. to show empathy/compassion

next word: leverage (Määda: liätërällesu - from liätë conflict + rälle to balance, turn + su nominalizer

[Imralu]

milone - v. to show empathy/compassion

next word: leverage (Määda: liätërällesu - from liätë conflict + rälle to balance, turn + su nominalizer

The Ewed are a little bit boring in the sense that they have more or less the same metaphor as we English speakers. They have no combustion engines of any kind but they have very advanced knowledge of mechanics. Their word zinga means "fulcrum" (the point about which a lever pivots). They can use this to mean "leverage" in an argument, although to be extra clear, they can say zinga skaha, roughly "conflict-of-interests fulcrum".

Next word: insect

(Ewed, Tal Tsung sociolect: jaw = literally: "thing-to-be-crushed-underfoot" (from yaw "to crush underfoot" + purpose-infix -i-) ... this is not specifically an insect, but any small animal. If the Ewed want to refer specifically to animals of the class Insecta, they can say jaw ya civ las = "thing-to-be-crushed-underfoot having six legs")

[eodrakken]

ípomos f. crawling bug (Kulae ímposmothe "six-leg")

olt f. flying bug (Kulae hólipai "flyer")


next word: shrug

[maıráí]

pretsae - to shrug
from slang/informal prets 'a question, a questioning look on the face, a reply to a question that does not actually give an answer'

next word - handwriting

[Torco]

sesu: lit. 'writing', from Sanga ses, to write [my guys have no idea how to write other than by hand; when they discover printing, they'll come up with another word for it, like 'machinewriting': tuleusises, shortened to tuleusisu]

next: evil action, crime or sin or something.

[maıráí]

ó - illegal, crime
vulte - crime; from vul 'evil' and te 'action, to do'
vuló - sin, horrible crime
oivuló - specifically sin, a religious crime
avrel - crime, in a more formal/technical sense, from technical prefix a, and slang vrellen "being out at night (probably doing bad things)".

next word: cooking oil, fried food, etc as long as it's related to fried goodness

[Imralu]

next word: cooking oil, fried food, etc as long as it's related to fried goodness

The Ewed don't really have fried food, but they've encountered it in some of the cultures they've subjugated. The word for "oil" is a compound, lan mup (from "water" + "fat", ie. "fat water"). Any oily food is referred to as kiaw lan mup. Kiaw, meaning food, is derived from kaw ("eat", "eater") + the purpose infix -i-.

Next word: butterfly

[Torco]

pinipipeusu [yeah, shoutout to euskerra]

next: to ask for a second chance

[Curan Roshac]

Oha [ɔ:ha]: orgasm (onomatopoeic )

Hahahaha, nice.

[WurdBendur]

prid v. ask for another chance (not necessarily the second); plead (the similarity is accidental)

Next: air

[patiku]

Next: air

wá /wA:/ n. - air, wind, gas adj. thin, insubstantial

Next: zigzag

[Rodlox]

Next: air

wá /wA:/ n. - air, wind, adj. thin, insubstantial

Next: zigzag

nualnoqnaql = to wobble {while moving} forwards
/nu.alno.ʔna.ʔl/

nu = walk, stride, (forward motion)
alno = Imperfect, no tense.
qnaql = (to) shake, to wobble, to nearly tip over.


Next: unravel(ing)

[Gaspard]

eçpeprelt - to unravel (from peprit - chaos and eg-[...]-elt - to un-[...])

next: to vaccinate

[äreo]

vatëgahyotojamate - v. to vaccinate, from vatëga decoy [vate fake + tëëga enemy] + hyoto virus + jamate to inject [ji in + amate to give off, emit]

next word: coulrophobia

[Corundum]

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[maıráí]

Moi Ku doesn't have anything like clowns, but, heck, why not?

krolnovlaia from krolno clown, fool; vlaia fear.

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uaksceccanaoselur - phenylpropanoids; from uaksceccanao frml. what the fuck is this; se thing, doer; lur group, plural




Just kidding. That word is still open.
next word: snack

[Rodlox]

uaksceccanaoselur -

sounds like a very very well-armored (and lumpy) prehistoric archosaur(ish) creature.

Just kidding. That word is still open.
next word: snack

rnapa = meal, food.
ua-rnapa = this meal. (ua- is Definate Article)
ua-rnapari = this meal now.
tli-ua-rnapari = {eating} this meal now. (tli- indicates its happening now)
/tli.u.a.rna.pa.ri/ & /t.li.u.a.rna.pa.ri/
(some speakers treat it as a consonant cluster, others don't)

Meals are small and (to most Westerners) pretty much snack-sized, but are eaten regularly throughout the day.


Next: in search of

[Imralu]

Next: in search of

Ewed:

Jel /Zel/ [ZEl]
English translations: v. search for, seek, look for; n. seeker, searcher.

Na i gi jel wa
[najgiZElwa]
1S COP former seeker 2s
"I was looking for you"

Juaj i gi in hin a jel al az
3P.MASC COP 'becomer' traveler which.is seeker land new.thing
"They set off in search of other lands/another land"

Next: play fight, horseplay, tussle. (Ewed: zadjav /zadZav/, from zad ci hav /Zad Si hav/ "fight like (a) dog(s)").

[Skomakar'n]

I've never heard of that term, or concept. What is it? Like when two baby cats fight without the intent to hurt each other, but are just playing?

[patiku]

It's an alternate term for "dirty fighting", especially when someone bites and scratches.