Lexicon Building

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hwhatting wrote:
sano wrote:next: to dry by the sun
Tautisca: no special verb, sauriten "to dry" from saurus "dry".

Next: green (colour)
Funnily, Hellesan sau (old saur, from Peran sauru) is the world for "sun".
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Izambri wrote:
hwhatting wrote:
sano wrote:next: to dry by the sun
Tautisca: no special verb, sauriten "to dry" from saurus "dry".

Next: green (colour)
Funnily, Hellesan sau (old saur, from Peran sauru) is the world for "sun".
Proto-Con-World? ;-)

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din wrote:Tormiott:

miutharpend /'myθaɹpən/ (n) sinking feeling; ominous situation; uneasiness, apprehension
literally: 'drowning of the stomach' or a drowning feeling (the stomach is often used to refer to excitement, well-being and positive feelings). Even more literally, it means {related to stomach}-{related to water}-{to eat or to swallow}.

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Portrait
Dwnieaneta - Portrait from Dwn "man" and Hieaneta "painting" from Hieaneac "to paint" from the genitive of Hiean - "colour"

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So... Hydroperoxyl?

I suppose that would be hidroperocsil /'hidɾopəɾoksil/

No real need to have a 'native word' for ozone-destroyers.

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HO2 - does that even exist?
Nvm, just read, a radical

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truthawacniddıcune - n inan - buffet (lit. meal of many spoons)


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Lanr:

koiih bóúk khat - "a strike to the back of the mind"; for very strong realizations
yam neihp vý, yam yeuhr vý, yam vý - "really seeing the facts", "finally seeing the facts", "seeing the facts"

vú yam, leh koiih bóúk khat -"see fact", "feel realization" - to realize



Next: to add to, to increase, to grow (transitive)

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valiums wrote:Next: to add to, to increase, to grow (transitive)
Kala:
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maha - to add; to add on; to add into; in addition

next: to lay out; to exhibit; to display

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sano wrote:next: to lay out; to exhibit; to display
Himmaswa:
Image auk [ɔ̰k̚]: to show; to display; to express; to manifest
ImageImage aukmen [ɔ̰k̚mɛn]: to make public; to show to all
ImageImage fpurng'auk [fpʰɚːŋɔ̰k̚]: to spread out or unfold in order to show

Next: to arrange; to organize; to put in order

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clawgrip wrote:Next: to arrange; to organize; to put in order
Tautisca: déten an carrunun "to put into order", ancarrunaten "to order, arrange", from carru f. "order, arrangement, world"

Next: donor

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hwhatting wrote:Next: donor
Kala:
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yetako - one that/who gives

next: to bet; to gamble; wager

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Hellesan

v intaurar "to bet; to wager" » Neolog. taken from Peran intaurari "to station; to position".


Next word: notary; notary public; civil law notary; attorney-at-law
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Triggannobhadr - Lawyer (lit. Truthsmith)
Ithannobhadr or Ithanwbrtrodadr - Notary (lit. Oathsmith or Oathoverseer)

next: the four humors - Blood, Yellow Bile, Black Bile and Phlegm

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GrinningManiac wrote:next: Blood
That's more than a single concept, and archaic to boot. I'll do blood.

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tima - blood; to bleed

next: phlegm; spittle

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Alahithian:
goxac (phlegm, spittle, goo)

Next word:
artifice
It was about time I changed this.

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Scheoldieath - Cunningness/Wiliness
Bheschscheoldieathobh - A Thing of Cunningness/An object of artifice
Scheoldeithac - To Be Cunning/To Do Something with Cunning

next: a Corrie

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GrinningManiac wrote:next: a Corrie
Well, you furthered my education by making me look up what a Corrie is. Tautisca doesn't have a separate lexeme for this. It's just called crangulun dolun "round / circle valley".

Next: infant, baby

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GrinningManiac wrote: next: a Corrie
Himmaswa:
ImageImageImage ngoan'gbiomchriak

Image ngoan: hole; pit; depression
Image gbiom: to be round
Image chriak: valley

This is not a common natural feature where Himmaswa is spoken.

Edit: looks like I was too slow, so:
hwhatting wrote:Next: infant, baby
Image eyn

next: to represent; to act as proxy

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clawgrip wrote: next: to represent; to act as proxy
Səŋču:
čaʔma - to represent; symbolize

Next word: mountain

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Tieđđá wrote:Next word: mountain
Tautisca: farchus

Next: sister-in-law (husband's sister, if your conlang distinguishes between in-laws on the husband's and the wife's sides)

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Poswa:
maše An exprimental word form taking the vowels of taše, an obsolete word for bushand, and the consonant m- which indicates adult women. The modern word for bushand is tuti, which coukld not use this forumla because it would be ambigous between the bushabd and wife.

mnext: desperate for X; to yearn, wish, desire, long for
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Sarikan -
Desperate for, desire, yearning: Prinyiih, or, more specifically Prinyiihakofii(o)/Prinyii'okkafii(o)
Next word: Boast, to brag, etc.

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chaoktarukto wrote:Next word: Boast, to brag, etc.
Kala: tleki - ['tɬe:ki] - to boast; to brag; boastful; exaggerative; pompous; bombastic

next: to turn pale; to lose color; to go white

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sano wrote:next: to turn pale; to lose color; to go white
Ahu:

kin : is coloured
bi kin : stops being coloured
bexí kin : is fades : becomes less coloured (with -ex-, which indicates an imperfective change)

aigu : is white
en aigu : becomes white (perfective)
ex aigu : becomes whiter (imperfective)

keniqkáito : becomes coloured like cheese
kin: is coloured
kaito : is cheese
kiqkáito : is cheese coloured
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Next: tread (on the sole of a shoe, tyre)
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sano wrote:
chaoktarukto wrote:Next word: Boast, to brag, etc.
Kala: tleki - ['tɬe:ki] - to boast; to brag; boastful; exaggerative; pompous; bombastic

next: to turn pale; to lose color; to go white
Image geysiang: to fade white; to go pale

Next: so to speak; in a manner of speaking; as it were

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