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Ochrish:

JYAYMJO | [ˈjyɶyˌmɑ] | {pay} | v | Pay one's public privilege fees; pay recurring private bills, e.g. for a residential cleaning service; offer valuables (at a shrine); pay a fare; bribe continuously. | J-M+YAY-jo | money+ritual-maintain. | Nh'anhraa v'an praa v'ympryn jympryaymjo. | {NPOL-something 1-IND need 1-<to.home>SJV<to.home>pay} | "I need something to pay with."

Next: to receive tribute / to tax

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Sunàqʷa the Sea Lamprey says:

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Sunàqʷa the Sea Lamprey says:

Tormiott (Rockall)

sorsa /ˈsoɹsa/ (v) to ride (an animal); to sit on someone's shoulders


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next: to sign (or apply an official mark of authorization)

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— o noth sidiritt Tormiott

Im not quite sure how to go about this .... the translation I want is "own-name". That is, "I own-named the contract", which comnjugates fine as a verb but I have no idea how to write the dictionary form.

Poswa:
Wifurifupi šoppabibi.
I signed the contract.

I guess that means "name" is an inalienable noun? But not really, since the word for name is šoppaba, plain and simple. It's more like "to sign" is an inalienable *verb* ... since without the person suffix on, it would just mean "to use a name". I'm not really sure how to handle this. Either I need some dummy morpheme that means "one's own" or it just will have to be ambiguous between the reflexive and the transitive meanings of the verb. And that's still not right, because it isnt a reflexivle verb at all ... I already have a reflexive verb marker, -p, but that would just mean "to name oneself".

Im not sure how natlangs with inalienable nouns handle this, but that's where I will probably need to look if i want natlang help here even though it isnt actually an inalienable noun.

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courtyard

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Tormiott:

torto ˈtoɹtʊ (n) turtle, tortoise (also startorto to disambiguate) {from MFr tortue}

startorto ˈstaɹtəɹtʊ (n) tortoise (also simply torto) {+ star- (pref) pertaining to land}

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— o noth sidiritt Tormiott

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Poswa:

fuffa stable, constant, invariable; always
šoppa name; permanent characteristic

There is also kwi "constant, stable, not variable" which looks like it could be cognate to an obsolete word for ghost, or to a name for God (but not both). The etymology I have in the dictionary doesn't line up with either of these, however, it just lists the word as an indivisible morpheme.

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next:to look around, inspect, circumspect

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