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Wurdbendur wrote:There's no reason not to suggest ideas that aren't convenient words in English.
Right, if that's what it is. Any language could have a noun referring to something relevant to you which doesn't overlap "possession". Many languages don't have a specifically non-possessive "my", and you couldn't add it without changing the morphology of the language, as opposed to merely adding to the lexicon. That's what I was trying to get at. Anyway.

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lúdil vi. "to wave, to undulate, to move back and forth" (etym: Kulae lútoel "weave")

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rittan [ʁiʔtɔn]- be blind

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pernikh n. noun, pillow

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tisejimue - v. to be disgusting, tise bad + jimue to taste like

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daupuet n. pineapple. (literally descriptive of a citrus fruit with tough spiny covering, "spiny citrus")

I have a confession to make. I just needed some words for my new conlang, and I didn't feel like just translating a list of common words. I just started this thread so I could use you guys to generate a better list, and I have not been disappointed. :)
I've been adding all of these words so far, except I've got pretty far behind by now, but I'm taking them all down nonetheless.

next: haunt (like a ghost, or a memory, or both)
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Delith nerektos keto doth mül so mili.
Reflections of fear cast shadows of nothing.

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WurdBendur wrote: I have a confession to make. I just needed some words for my new conlang, and I didn't feel like just translating a list of common words. I just started this thread so I could use you guys to generate a better list, and I have not been disappointed. :)
I've been adding all of these words so far, except I've got pretty far behind by now, but I'm taking them all down nonetheless.
Oh god! No!....nah, I've been doing the same thing.

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atime v./n. to scare, haunt; scariness.

Tenses:
atim~ prog/present scare, scaring, haunt, haunting
atimi~ past scared, haunted
atimin~ perf have scared, have haunted
atimini~ perf past have had scared, have had haunted
atimiv~ fut will scare, will haunt
atimivi~ fut past was going to scare, was going to haunt
Eg: Reite atimuvus - You will scare again!

Passive:
atimiçei pass. preterite to be scared, to be haunted
Eg: Sul atimuçao! - You are scared!

Adjective:
atimi adj. scary, haunting, haunted
atimins adv. scarily
Eg: Atimus! - You are scary! (From Atimi+sul> Atim+us)

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fǿvolges to haunt, to scare, to scare continually.
gjaƿegter ghost, goul, banshee.

ýférfølþékassi over+wave+box.

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vuapois - (connecting+room) hallway


next word - leftovers, remains of a meal

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θəbé:q'alis [θəbé:q'ɑlis]
aθ-béq+:=alis
NOM-cook+RES=remaining
'That which remains after having been cooked = leftovers'

Something that I'm experimenting with based on Northwest Coast languages. The + represents root internal modification, the = a lexical suffix.

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Húsaveislár House-of-banquets.

Spirit (religious/spiritual)

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Jacqui wrote:Spirit (religious/spiritual)
sekáno - lit. thing that writes people (Used among followers of Oiká, the second most common religion, a main part of which is writing and words)
The sekáno is the pen writing out a life's story...
(This lead to a lot of insults about "paper people".)

nosui - lit. a person's water, used outside of church. May sometimes refer to common actions, daily life.
nosessu - same as nosui, but with a heavy feel to it (Both used by followers of Oisessu, where water is huge. This is the big religion.)

Double-thanks for giving me plot ideas.

next word: petrol, gas(oline)
O, and if your conworld hasn't got gas, then feel free to replace it with something close. If all else fails, next word is fail.
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HelixWitch wrote:sekáno - lit. thing that writes people (Used among followers of Oiká, the second most common religion, a main part of which is writing and words)
The sekáno is the pen writing out a life's story...
(This lead to a lot of insults about "paper people".)
I want/need to know more about this.

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HelixWitch wrote:
next word: petrol, gas(oline)
O, and if your conworld hasn't got gas, then feel free to replace it with something close. If all else fails, next word is fail.
Náqụmàyạ:

(a)nùhátị, [(a)nùʁáʧi̥] - n. generic term for oil not used for cooking.
anùhátịqáíʔị (a-nùhátị-qáíʔí) - oil from the ground

next word: to do extremely difficult work

(for those who can't see it, ị = /i_0/)
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vinna mjǿd hárða To work very hard

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Fargo:
rēsuk (masc.) - failure (from: ōsuk - success)
rēsukt - to fail

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simíze adj. untrustworthy, suspect (etym: Kulae siamísos "not of the ground" i.e. unstable, untrue)

ósegob f. person who tends to suspect others of wrongdoing (etym: Kulae hóuthekoppai "sin-seer")


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Alaje:

skațol [skatsol] : to be servile ( from the noun skațe meaning servant)



next word, to fall in love
Tjalehu ge frulehu, tjea ale stjindamihu? Dime sfraiaknanmi.

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Amuere wrote:next word, to fall in love
/ ɤtʘu:lyfa: / - throat-stealer {said to a woman}
/ otʘu:lyfa: / - throat-stealer {said to a man}

that's the appreviated form of "ʘula ʔbily.wo k.ey" - loosely, "you hold my breath", "you have grasped (away) my breath"

ɤt= you {fm} / round the pronoun's vowel /ot/ to make it address a man - though this rule doesn't apply to "I" and such pronouns.
wo = hand (one of the first words in this conlang, and the only survivor)
ʘula = breath
ʔbily.wo = grasping
k.ey = of.I / moving the personal pronoun to the final and most subordinate place, reinforces (to another native speaker) that the "you" holds all the cards and calls the shots.
-fa: = likely a marker to denote closeness, intimacy, in great confidence.



next word: to chose, to pick
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vylja to choose, to pick.

aching back.

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Jacqui wrote:vylja to choose, to pick.

aching back.
Haha. I have to do this one for Kozea now.

torehóak; tor(e)- (prefix for bad) + hoak (back; spine).

Now for wort; herb.

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Der /der/ - herb(for cooking)
Vineas /"vi.ne.as/ - herb(medicinal)

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そうだ。死んでいる人も勃起することが出来る。
俺はその証だ。

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rickardspaghetti wrote:Next word: sandwich
Kala:

satila - n. anything between two pieces of bread


Next word: create a meal, prepare food
(note: it does not need to mean to cook, as not all food eaten is cooked)
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buhamine - v. literally to make food, or to do food

next word: gallbladder

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Tirase:

laprómepu f. gallbladder (lapró "bile" fr. Kulae lámiila "dark green water" + mepú "container" fr. Kulae ménpae "carrier")


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