I started a mid-length sort of fairy tale in Henaudute a long while ago and I’m hoping to pick it back up again. It was the longest stretch of text in the language I have, so far as I know, and it remembers more things than I’ve forgotten; most particularly, it has stress marked, and […]
Tagged HenauduteSo I downloaded the page images of Collado‘s Dictionarium sive Thesauri Linguae Iaponicae Compendium the other day from the University of Tsukuba Library’s website. For those who haven’t heard of this, it’s a Latin-Spanish-Japanese dictionary published in 1632. This is partly an awesome thing in itself and partly something one could make an awesome modern […]
Tagged 17th century, dictionariesI was working with the Lexicon Universale and ran across the story of Ibycus, a Greek lyric poet, as cribbed from a Latin version of Plutarch‘s ΠεÏὶ ἀδολεσχίας (De garrulitate): Ibycus cùm in latrones incidisset iam occidendus, grues fortè supervolantes obtestatus est. Aliquanto pòst tempore, cùm iidem latrones in foro sederent, rursumque grues supervolarent, per […]
Tagged 4th century, Ausonius, cranes, dactylic hexameter, Ibycus, Plutarch, translationUnlike last time where I only managed to work with one word, this time I actually have a word and a half! At this rate I’ll be writing books in no time. The Âdlantki word for a dog is soné /sɔ̀ne/. This comes from the same IE root as Greek κÏων, Latin canis, English hound, […]
Tagged Âdlantki, bark, dog, word of the momentI’m not really fond of this set of posts, because it’s turning out to be such an infodump. I’ve discovered the fun part about posting here isn’t just the data, but what I think about it and what I’ve been learning along the way… and this was all so long ago I hardly remember. But, […]
Tagged Egypt, nomes, translationRight, so one of the projects on my list is to go through the current Ibran word list and check all the words for consistency. In theory I’d be able to do more than one of these each time I got around to them, but at my current level of organization this isn’t always possible… […]
Tagged Ibran, pronouns, vocabularySo, I started this particular language several years ago but never put much work into it. To start with it was an a priori language (and I still have a file going by the wonderfully descriptive name of ‘A zillion proto-Sirius root words’), but later I decided, as I generally do, that languages look better […]
Tagged siriusContinued from Monday’s post. So half the hard part about these nome names is that the data I collected is in somewhat of a disorganized form. Rather—to look at it more positively—it’s organized in too many different ways. I had one file where the few data I was absolutely certain of were marked in green, […]
Tagged Egypt, nomes, translationI started writing this egons ago—late January—but it got enormous and unwieldy and I never managed to whip it into much of a presentable shape.  But then, this is a blog—there’s nothing wrong with posting incomplete ideas per se.  If this ever gets finished, it’ll be a page of its own on the sidebar here. […]
Tagged 1st century, Egypt, nomes, Pliny, translationTerence, Hecyra 5.3: Nam mÄ•mi|ni abhÄ«nc | mensÄ«s | decÄ“m | fere Äd | me nÅc|te prÄ«|mÄ confÅge|re anhÄ“|lantÄ“m | domÅ«m | sinÄ• co|mitÄ•, vi|ni plÄ“|nÅ«m, cum hoc ănu|lo. ————— Because I remember, about ten months ago, that he ran up to me at my house early one night, out of breath, all alone, full […]
Tagged 2nd century BC, Terence, translation