Lexitechnia

A Thalassarctian text I’ve been working on, a translation/adaptation of a passage of Epictetus: Àtá´¥uβumuδᴥamkòζdᴥιliιi, khimá´¥utuphÏ™iná´¥itᴥιdινoᴥιiz-na νᴥumá´¥k aaγϙυbᴥυιi? Tihuupιi, dινoá´¥qηketihuιi. Ϙuνηhιιpιi, dινoá´¥qηkeÏ™uνηhιιi-νi samá½¼iotá´¥umιi-ná´¥i νᴥumᴥι ϙυbᴥυiiνᴥιiz. Tazι mᴥυtᴥζogᴥϙiná´¥iιi, dινoᴥιiz-ná´¥i mᴥυtᴥζogᴥι νᴥànòλιbᴥιiz, μᴥηzoÏ™iná´¥idυιi-ná´¥i aliotakhiloι sá½°ká´¥albᴥàz. Interlinear (showing the morphemes in their original forms, before the changes required by composition) àtá´¥uβu icebear -muδᴥ lame -am old -m be […]

hirve. (ír.ve) n. A hero. [Âdlantki *hirvé, from Kirumb *hírós, from Greek ἥρως hÄ“rōs.] A couple more words left to fill out this line: — despatch.AOR-3SG — soul.PL vɛʃrÉ› strong foove many adÉ™ ACC hirvÉ”s hero.PL É™f GEN [It] despatched many brave souls of heroes. I think that, culturally, hirve might have at least one […]

The other day I was working on some roots for Drake. I had, from somewhere, picked up the idea that these could be freestanding words on their own, but looking at existing vocabulary, bare roots don’t seem to become words—some derivation for the sake of nominalization and verbalization will be necessary, and I’ll have to […]

homíí|óm, hómííís|a, hómáyóók|a. (hÊŠmijijuːm) v. trans. To understand.  [Proto-Indo-European *som-HyeH₁- . Cf. Greek συνίημι.] Sometimes Kirumb words tend to get … interesting strings of vowels.  The ííí in the aorist hómííísa is probably one of the longer ones I’ve come across.  That’s three long is in a row, and as vowels in hiatus are broken up […]

So I started a stub page on FrathWiki about the Rami alphabet.  Not much in the way of detail yet; this is one of the areas where I have a lot of rudiments worked out, but not much finished polished product.  Didn’t even have any decent image files of the characters put together—so I’m taking […]