Lexicon Building

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Cathbad wrote: next: shell (of a seashell, snail, of a turtle...)
Unnamed: sekǣntai - turtleshell, shield - /sɛkɜːntai/ [sɛkɞːntɒʏ]

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Fireplace, campfire
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Wattmann wrote:Fireplace, campfire
Gnoughish: clarloost (lit. fire sit)

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Uhkroāruk-u-ūnruk-hu-kokhkroāgh-ho-hgāophokhām - Chondrodite, the Trollish God of Love
(lit - Chondrite-with-chondrules-which-overstrides-she-Venus)

Troll god of love. Causes trolls to fall in love by hitting them on the head with a rock.

Gū uhkroāruk-u-ūnruk-hu-kokhkroāgh-ho-hgāophokhām ū aklāgh graakhgrūūā phar - Festival of Chondrodite
(lit - has Chondrite-with-chondrules-which-overstrides-she-Venus a day of good hearts (celebration) which provokes love)


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GrinningManiac wrote:Next - The Planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune.
Kala:

Like the days of the week: nayoma, tayoma, hayoma etc., and the months: na'onye, ta'onye etc. this is simplified with a basic numbered system:

kayana - Mercury
kayata - Venus
kayaha - Earth
kayama - Mars
yakaya - Jupiter
kayatsa - Saturn
kayaka - Uranus
kayapa - Neptune
kayasa - Pluto

next: to bewilder; to dazzle and confuse

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GrinningManiac wrote:Uhkroāruk-u-ūnruk-hu-kokhkroāgh-ho-hgāophokhām - Chondrodite, the Trollish God of Love
(lit - Chondrite-with-chondrules-which-overstrides-she-Venus)

Troll god of love. Causes trolls to fall in love by hitting them on the head with a rock.

Gū uhkroāruk-u-ūnruk-hu-kokhkroāgh-ho-hgāophokhām ū aklāgh graakhgrūūā phar - Festival of Chondrodite
(lit - has Chondrite-with-chondrules-which-overstrides-she-Venus a day of good hearts (celebration) which provokes love)


Next - The Planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune.
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sano wrote:
next: to bewilder; to dazzle and confuse
Trurian:
turnono 'to become dazzled/confused'
eturnono, aturnono 'to confuse, bewilder someone'

(Brief derivational note: eturnono and aturnono are somewhat unique in that they are both effectively lexical causatives; usually, the e- prefix denotes reflexivity when an a- prefix would make a verbal root causative. But not in this case. I'm not quite sure why yet, but there you go.)

Next: to cancel, call off, abandon the idea of undertaking

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Cathbad wrote:Next: to cancel, call off, abandon the idea of undertaking
Kala: pela

next: prawn; shrimp

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Krakhrugwārlarr
Lit. small insect, big water
Bristel wrote:
GrinningManiac wrote:Uhkroāruk-u-ūnruk-hu-kokhkroāgh-ho-hgāophokhām - Chondrodite, the Trollish God of Love
(lit - Chondrite-with-chondrules-which-overstrides-she-Venus)

Troll god of love. Causes trolls to fall in love by hitting them on the head with a rock.

Gū uhkroāruk-u-ūnruk-hu-kokhkroāgh-ho-hgāophokhām ū aklāgh graakhgrūūā phar - Festival of Chondrodite
(lit - has Chondrite-with-chondrules-which-overstrides-she-Venus a day of good hearts (celebration) which provokes love)
I love this. Truly.

Who is the troll god of war?
Klom-o-katakata-tagwrāū-hu-wohgruggkroāgh-ho-hgāophokhgurr - Sulphurus, the Trollish God of War
(lit. - Sulphur-owns-weapon-bloody-which-looms-he-Mars)

Troll god of war. Causes trolls to fall into conflict by hitting them on the head with a rock.

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GrinningManiac wrote:Next - suspicious/suspicions
Alahithian
to suspect - toxow
suspicious - toxo
suspicion/s - toxof/v

Gnoughish
to suspect - swiemb
suspicious - swiemby
suspicion - swiembth

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gunvyrranboś - inspiration
(gunvyr - thought, gunvarą - to think)

Next: secret
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Feles wrote:Next: secret
Alahithian: lixe

Gnoughish: gadoth

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navinat - hidden
(navį - to hide)

Next: open
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Feles wrote:Next: open
Kala: nyeta - to open; to start; to turn on

next: to weigh in a balance or on a scale

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sano wrote:next: to weigh in a balance or on a scale
Victot li Rhák:

ómosic /ˈoːmosit͡s/ (< ó- "stand, be" + mos "heavy") formal, scientific; considered artificial, stilted in coll. speech "to weigh, weigh sth."; lóm ómosot li vana mastim "it weighs 5 mastim", lóbam ixom ómosso vé "I weighed that (one) today"

lapic /ˈlapit͡s/ (sometimes lapmosic /ˈlapmosit͡s/ for meaning 2 by analogy with ómosic) informal
     1) "to fall, drop"; lóbam lapr chilr "he/she fell and hurt himself/herself"
     2) "weigh, weigh sth."; ót lapat li vana mastim "it weighs 5 mastim"; ó lapr li vest-ok gawan "he/she weighs 11 gawan"

     ó in ó lapat prob. reduced from verbal auxiliary lóm; reint. (and written) as ót ("stands/is") but pronounced [oː]

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Boşkoventi wrote:Next word: (adj.) lethargic, listless, unenergetic, sluggish; (n.) letharɡy, ennui, malaise, sluɡɡishness
Kala - neli

next: to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out

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druxal [ʈuxal] - remove completely < druxe remove + -al verbal intensifier



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Uhhuhgāoghophka - Mental outlook/perspective (lit. things which the mind itself sees)

Dakrouhhuhgāonūphhgāo-āph-a-ggār - Visual perspective (lit. to make shapes which the eye views differently their places from which they are viewed)

Ghorphhuhgāo-og-ggārā-a-ggārlā-nūpha - Contrast/perspective (lit. thoughts which this place and that place see from which are different)

Trolls don't have much perspective - it confuses them.

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filrom - chlorine (lit: green-gas)
rou - acid
filromrou - hydrochloric acid (lit: chlorine acid)
filromrouvet - hypochlorous acid (lit chlorine-one acid)
filromrouvop - chlorous acid
filromrouvuc - chloric acid
filromrouvam - perchloric acid

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Gnoughish: stritters (coming from the verb 'strit', to cut).

Next word: allergy
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treegod wrote:Next word: allergy
Victot li Rhák:

la kéta, la-kéta /laˈkeːta/ (> [laˈkeːta]); also lakéta /laˈkeːta/ (> [l̩ˈkeːta]) (n) "allergy, allergic reaction"; from la "powder, dust" (short for gáva la "tree dust", i.e. "pollen") + kéta "illness, disease, mallady"

     sometimes also drola kéta, from drola "dust" (esp. airborne), from dro "bit, piece, particle" + la "powder, dust" -- but compounds always use the short form:

     khapet la-kéta "food allergy"
     renep onho la-kéta "sun tea allergy, allergy to sun tea"

la-kétevic, la-kétaevic (formed by analogy with chilevic "to get sick, ill", from chilic "to hurt, be in pain") "to have an allergic reaction"; lódenam la-kétevso mell bang cimso vé renep onho "I had an allergic reaction after I drank that sun tea"

la-kéteváic, la-kétaeváic (as above, from chileváic "to be sick, ill") -- somewhat rare; usu. one says someone "has had an allergic reaction": lóm kapírr shachav -- lóbam la-kétevr "he/she's going to the doctor; he/she's had an allergic reaction"

la-kéta lóm tesát fóq X "to have an allergy (to sth.)" (lit. "an allergy exists at X"); Relóm-il ókso cimso renep onho -- la-kéta lóm tesát fóq xav "I can't drink sun tea -- I have an allergy (to it)"


Next word: flower, bloom
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Giamulu:
naeʼ [nəe̯ʔ] - flower (specifically that of a cactus)

Next: discovery

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Theta wrote:Giamulu:
naeʼ [nəe̯ʔ] - flower (specifically that of a cactus)

Next: discovery
Vanga:

vǫuhs
; discovery; finding (broad /võ͡ũhs/, main dialect [vɔ̃͡ʊ̃hs̻]) (dictionary entry)

Etymology

Derived from the verb váhn; find; discover; encounter (dictionary entry) by the harmony-forcing nominalisation suffix -us.
This initially gave rise to the older form vœyhnus, which time later shaped into the modern vǫuhs.


Next word: steam; water vapor
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Hellesan

f aude "vapour", "steam".


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Skomakar'n wrote:Next word: steam; water vapor
Illyrian: Staum, -e, tho "Vapour, Gas" (can also be used figuratively to mean "Heat", "Lightheadedness", or "Nervous Fit", as in "a Case of the Vapours", which tend to be more commonly attributed to Heat), Wettestaum, -e, tho "Steam, Water Vapour" (literal)

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Kòmo:
nanga - an orange fruit native to the area where these guys live (which is actually a rainforest).

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