Lexicon Building

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And the next word is?
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I edited.
The new word is: mean (verb, as in "What does this mean?")
At, casteda dus des ometh coisen at tusta o diédem thum čisbugan. Ai, thiosa če sane búem mos sil, ne?
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Hellesan:

v. nansagar "to signify", "to mean". Etymology: from Peran namasagari, from Sarden namathagaro "what the noun does", in the sense of "the sense or meaning that it gives", from Sarden nāma "name", "noun" + thagaro "to do", from Sing. dhe– "to do" + agar– "action".


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South Eresian: Alalqara, tleqara kwa Alalwa, literally the "time of the moon." "Moon" here is Alalwa, which is the name of the lunar deity, whereas the usual word for moon is nwaholi.

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ebbendira, nominalization of ebbendi, compound of ebbem, sour and ti, to laugh, from Proto-Tarandic : *hoigwhm, sour and *tei smile.

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aban dablebeta "pottery shop" from aban "shop, market" and dablebena "pottery" (also: balba - to potter, blia "clay")

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Ars Lande wrote:ebbendira, nominalization of ebbendi, compound of ebbem, sour and ti, to laugh, from Proto-Tarandic : *hoigwhm, sour and *tei smile.

Next word: pottery shop.
Classical Tailancan: durantra "pottery workshop", from durā, duran-, "potter's wheel", etymologically related to drodor "wheel", both from the Proto-Kalpo-Lacaran root √DUR "wheel". Also derived from durā is durancos "potter".

EDIT: Dammit! Beaten to the punch! Very well.

trespetin "to flog". From Proto-Lacaran *tresp-, intensive of *ter- "to strike". Derived terms include tresta "scourge" and trempā "judicial sentence" (from PL *trespnã "a whipping")

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Puthe: meğc < West Rebe mʼaget < Memeyk mʼēget < mʼēgi "fiber" + kəjt "to bind, fix"

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kubena, lever from ku, high, be (causative suffix), na tool. From the proto-Tarandic root *krew, high
Related: kube, to raise

Alternatively: tevunde, from tevu, a prop, to support < proto-Tarandic *wruy

tevunde designs the physical principle; kubena would be preferred for more metaphorical meanings (eg. in politics).

Next word: elector, voter

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Ars Lande wrote:Next word: elector, voter
Classical Tailancan: pādrastūios, present participle of pādrasatin "to elect", from "out, out of" + drasatin "to choose", ultimately going back to the PKL root √DARAS. Other words from the same root include drascos "magistrate" and drannos "monk".

Next word: fallow, fallow field.
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Dewrad wrote: Next word: fallow, fallow field.
Classical Tarandim: kedakkonde, from the habitual of dakkon, 'to plow', and the nominalizing suffix -te. From the proto-Tarandic root *kruŋ, 'to turn'.
Fallow field is sonabenne, 'sleeping field', from the proto-Tarandic roots *swoŋ, 'to rest' and *haben, 'to sow'.

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Itianio:
tapiko - tap- food; ko- thing; -i- smaller amount of following, or the following is diminuitive; -iko- little thing, small part (standard)
tapominrcho- min- create, creation; cho- part; (book)

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Adro:
dízno
n.PA smile; dim.* grin, smirk, fake smile; aug.* laugh
turen no díznino
v. to smile (lit. to have a smile)

From the English "Disney", because it makes me smile.

*Adro uses the article to create diminutive and augmentative forms of the noun, so they are not reflected in a different form of the word itself, but are often included in translations.

PA = partially animate, a class/gender of a nouns used for weather, body parts, and other various in-between things

Next word: viccisitude, "a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance; a fluctuation of state or condition"

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Hellesan:

f. torsenafor "vicissitude". Etymology: from torsenor "sudden change" (torsar "to change" + -enor (abstract of state)) + -afor (direct relation).


Next word: hostility
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Tirase:

lúnul-e-ro f. "wind-and-water" i.e. shifting circumstances.

Ah, wasn't fast enough. Here's "hostility":

sídage adj. "hostile, threatening in demeanor". Adjectivization of sídan vt. "threaten", from Kulae sítete "discipline" < Proto-Nuelic sisa "fist".


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High Ishtaric ricàkā (/ʁi.ça˥˩.ˈka˦/) - to burst; from ris ("to press") + càkā ("to break"). Past tense ricàkā-ī; future tense ricàkā-ì; imperfective aricàkā

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Itianio
I think I have plenty of literal words by now.
mitfikinototao - mitf strict, structured, austere, organized; kin 'official' paper such as rulebooks, books of laws, money; tota country, society, world (figurative, as in "Western World" or "The World of the ZBB")
kinatotao - an inefficient bureacracy, a spend-crazy country
mitfitotao - a country with many rules

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valiums wrote:next word: the time things go wrong
Kala:

malama (a contraction of mala & ama, 'bad' and 'time' respectively)

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zegut [tsɛɣut]

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Hellesan:

m. pl. beris n'esprenc "spark goblins". Etymology: from beri "goblin" + esprenc "spark".


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méritiina biatkena n - femme fatale, fatal woman. méritiina meeke homme fatal

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blei mehire lit. "third burning". The first one is in the mouth, the second in the stomach. Yay. :D


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Tormiott:

ok (n) river; stream; (v) to stream
» sogok (n) rebel (v) to rebel {+ gradation prefix 'so-', opposite, negative, against}
» ascasogok /ˌæskæso'ʁok/(n) rebellion {+ theme prefix 'asc-', The act(ion) of.., the result of...}

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Itianio
sichaksir-poso - "spraying container"
sufanasichaksir-poso - suf force, pressure, ana cuases, causing, results (suffix)

next word: to be late or to arrive at the wrong time

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kylaita- to arrive late

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