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sano wrote:next: to bet; to gamble
Tágwanytśá: kwynola - to play/compete for something.
dźándźa - to bet/risk something; applicative form kwydźándźa - to bet/risk something to someone. (slang)

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Avjunza wrote:next: to whistle
Kala: metla - flute; sound of wind; whistle

next: cancer; carcinoma

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sano wrote:next: cancer; carcinoma
Classical Tailancan: maxurī 'cancer, tumor', borrowed from Achaunese maksurī 'one who eats' < √kusr 'to eat'.

Next: (bone) marrow.
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Dewrad wrote:Next: (bone) marrow.
Kala: suetsa - marrow; essence; quintessence; pith (soft interior of plant stem)

next: to start up (a motor); to launch (a computer application)

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sano wrote:
Dewrad wrote:Next: (bone) marrow.
Kala: suetsa - marrow; essence; quintessence; pith (soft interior of plant stem)

next: to start up (a motor); to launch (a computer application)
Vanga:

1. nýkt-
(nýkt-dd-); to power; to turn on (transitive) [nyːxt], [nyːxt-ðː-]

Etymology
From the word ný-g- (ný-ks-), originally meaning 'to burn' and formerly mostly being used of volcanic things such as lava, which by extension has gotten the sense 'to be powerful' or 'to give power' ('to power', intransitively) (having yielded words such as nýhs, which originally meant, and still means, 'lava' and 'magma' as well as 'volcanic rock', [and the relative clause 'which is powerful/burning/gives power', intransitively] and now also means 'battery') used together with the causative (sometimes reflexive) suffix -dd((y)dd).


2. nýg-
(ný-ks-); to power; to turn on; to be powerful; to burn (intransitive) [nyːɣ], [nyː-ks̻-]

Etymology
Same as above, but without the causative suffix.


Next: lava; magma
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Skomakar'n wrote:Next: lava; magma
Kala: yonka

next: indescribable; beyond description

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Skomakar'n wrote:Next: lava; magma
Illyrian:
Meultrauche — Lava, Magma (lit. "Meltrock")

Next Word: Cheese
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Christopher Schröder wrote:Next Word: Cheese
Kala: mputsa

next: indescribable; beyond description

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sano wrote:
Christopher Schröder wrote:Next Word: Cheese
Kala: mputsa

next: indescribable; beyond description
Vanga:

1. ýs(t)-tųw- æiji
; "not possible to explain" [ˈyːs̻tːʊ̃w ˈæ͡ɪjɯ]

Etymology
From the word ús(k)- meaning 'to be bright', either through ablaut turned into ýs(k)-, or with the with the causative (sometimes reflexive), also ablauting, suffix -dd((y)dd), giving ýskt-(dd), both formations meaning 'to illuminate' and by extension 'to explain', used together with the word tųw meaning 'to be possible' or 'to be able' and slightly simplified phonetically. The negative particle æiji is then used, since negatives can not be incorporated in Vanga.


Next: nostalgic; dreamy (yielding happy or sad or even bittersweet or indescribable feelings through thoughts of the past)

EDIT:
Haha. Indescribable feelings... Didn't even think of that when I wrote it.
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Skomakar'n wrote:Next: nostalgic; dreamy
Kala: motomoyo - "heartfelt memory"

next: to fail to achieve something; to be fruitless

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sano wrote: next: to fail to achieve something; to be fruitless
Kàmo
hàiapi - to do something in vain; to be in the process of failing something

Next Word: airplane

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Theta wrote:Next Word: airplane
Kala: ilamayo - flying-machine

next: to put a square peg in a round hole; incompatible (idiom)

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-bwùtho- [pʋʌ̀s̪o] - v tr - be incompatible with, spit, expel


Next: plastic, acrylic
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treskro wrote:Next: plastic
Kala: moue - plastic; synthetic resin; plastic cement

next: squared paper; graph paper; grid paper

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sano wrote:
treskro wrote:Next: plastic
Kala: moue - plastic; synthetic resin; plastic cement

next: squared paper; graph paper; grid paper
Poswa: našies blaba

Pabappa: nasib tapes

both meaning "cage paper" where the word for cage is from "to bite" since cages are what let animals see out without being able to stick out their mouth and bite you

next: snowplow, mudplow
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Soap wrote: next: snowplow, mudplow
Kàmo:
kianaipamoísi - "by use of it one pushes a fluid" - 'plow'

Next word: (frying) pan

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Theta wrote:Next word: (frying) pan
Aihmi:ehxane [ədzane]
Next word:mountain range

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Xaro wrote:Next word: mountain range
Kala: tliyama

tli- - collective plural

yama - mountain

next: deficient; to lack

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sano wrote:next: deficient; to lack
Aihmi:<azaihra>[azæɾa]
Next word:cauldron

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Xaro wrote:Next word: cauldron
Kala: pula - cauldron, pot, kettle

next: region; area; domain

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muom - n inan - realm, region

Next: wrestle
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treskro wrote:Next: wrestle
Kala: penya - to wrestle; to grapple; to scuffle

next: stronghold; fort; fortification

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sano wrote:next: stronghold; fort; fortification
Aihmi:<azumeh>[əzumə]
Next word:anarchy

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Xaro wrote:Next word: anarchy
Kala: nahok - [lit: without rule]

next: concentrated; specialized

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next: concentrated; specialized
concentrated: ûlbedhæles [ylbeˈðɛles]

next: revenge

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