Lexicon Building

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Milloniare wrote:
Next: Native
Native in Yampa is: pexaru (or pexara if feminine)

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Heba:

kachabudalus, kachalus lit. death (trust) document

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valiums wrote:to steep (tea)
Kèia:<karlama>-to steep,to soak
Zčaŕžgçžahģbe:<nçkułšhnmłģkvl>to steep,to drown
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Lajrán hwoz mónáz:

[kaʊ] - n. dog

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Watchman, Sentinel.

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Lyra wrote: Next word:
Watchman, Sentinel.
Ahu:
dacu - guard, protect, look after (specifically refers to a male guard)
tsu dacu - guard, protect, look after (specifically refers to a male guard who is paid)
ci dacu - guard, protect, look after (specifically refers to a female guard)
ci tsu dacu - guard, protect, look after (specifically refers to a female guard who is paid)

For the more traditional concepts of sentinels
hamacin - sentinel (eroded from the phrase hamu acuin "one who looks down from on high")

tsu - work, worker inherently masculine word
dacu - protect, watch over, look after, guard) inherently masculine word
ci - similar (can be used to indicate the female equivalent of an inherently masculine word or vice versa)
hamu - (something/someone that is) high
acuin - look downwards


Next word: superfluous, redundant
Glossing Abbreviations: COMP = comparative, C = complementiser, ACS / ICS = accessible / inaccessible, GDV = gerundive, SPEC / NSPC = specific / non-specific
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Imralu wrote:Next word: superfluous, redundant
Kala: yete - extraneous; redundant; superfluous

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Woh X Y khro "Woh...khro"

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often (as in "I often go for walks" or "it often rains")

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Often in Yampa is serin
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Cednìtit:
nuthì - n anim. - pirate, rogue < nsëyo
c'owkısromo - n anim. - pirate < he who exchanges nothing
druxemo - n anim. - thief, pirate, plunderer < druxe "take"


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Ghost Speech:
kimne-v to remember a person fondly, to miss
maajra-v to remember a point in time fondly, to be nostalgic.
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Kàmo:

kio - tooth; pointed edge, like the tip of a pencil

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Poswa: waboli poppel, essentially "heavy metal pen" because the Poswobs wouldn't even have a word for lead but they do have a word that means, by itself, "heavy material" which generally means metals because metals are the densest things they come into contact with.

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Soap wrote:next: hope, optimism
Kala: kipo - aspire; hope; wish

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Ghost Speech
Pejva:-vt 1) To break a branch where it forks;
2)Idiomatic, to break up (of couples), to depart from a very close friend, to leave the family
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Ahu:

kal (1) is on fire; burns
kal[a X] (2) is fire (which burns X)
ne kal is on fire; burns (from meaning two of kal with the passive ne)

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Imralu wrote:Next: smug
Illyrian:
trum (adj.) — strong, assured
trum-doun — smug, assured, overconfident

Next Word: Starch, Flour, Thickening Agent
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Kàmo:

moikàoa - flour; literally "wheat sand"

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Poswa: puvop, now seen as monomorphemic, but originally from Bābā su yuniup "sun peeled".
Pabappa: sunip, from the same source
Lypelpyp dialect: tenop, yet again from the same source. All of these languages are closely related but handled the initial sequence of su + vowel very differently. All three went through an intermediate stage of /psernʲop/

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xwinco - v tr - flirt (with someone) lit. "good nose"


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In Yampa:

Infantry= patahox ("foot war")
Calvary= nageruhox ("horse war")
Artillery=fildekarozahox ("tank war" literally "Iron Car War')
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Ziotaki: n. ľateseiþeko "swim hole"

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Shihali wrote: Next: table of contents
Poswa: džupa buvžu "list of writings", where the word for list is itself originally a compound meaning "things to look for".

Pabappa would just use a loan, probably dupabundu, since even its word for "writing" is a Poswa loan.

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Christopher Schröder wrote:
Imralu wrote:Next: smug
Illyrian:
trum (adj.) — strong, assured
trum-doun — smug, assured, overconfident

Next Word: Starch, Flour, Thickening Agent
No offense, but I'm pretty sure Illyrian is the name of an extinct natlang.

Anyway,

Zoirian: Hamasko 'lantern'

Next word; reflexes
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Cednitit:
thadcıŋŋe - n inan - reflexes < thadcık to flinch < from PVd zazdak react


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