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 […]
Tagged RamiΦαῖνε rule.1SG ῥάδαν land.ACC.SG μάνδαθη excellent.Γ ὕννε? not.1SG á½Î½Ï„ε not.3PL μάδῑ woman.NOM.PL ῥάδανα country.INESS.SG νεῦνευ? 1S~EMPHATIC ‘Do I not rule an excellent land? Are there no women in my own country? (The label ‘Γ’ on μάνδαθη indicates the gender called γαÏη “earth” in Henaudute; it is used chiefly for inanimate objects and parts of things that […]
Tagged HenauduteAxayÉ›. (É‘Ì.xÉ™.Ê’É›) adj. and n. Achaean. [Greek Ἀχαιός.] aʃɛ. (É‘Ì€.ʃə) n. An ill, a woe, a calamity, a trouble.  [Proto-Indo-European *agh-o-.] murÉ›. (mù.ɾə) adj. Countless, innumerable.  [Proto-Indo-European *muH-ro-.] AxayÉ› is a reborrowing from Greek. If it had been borrowed in the Kirumb era its Atlantic reflex would be *Ahvɛ—compare the Latin Achivus—but I don’t think […]
Tagged AtlanticpruÅ¡ni. (prúʃ.ni) n. Offspring, progeny. A baby; an infant. [Proto-Indo-European *proHâ‚‚-ǵnHâ‚-o-.] As one of the glosses suggests, this is a near cognate to “progeny”, though the formation was meant to follow Sanskrit पà¥à¤°à¤œà¤¾ prajÄ. It can be used both of descendants generally, or of infants—compare “child” in English—but I think the more usual sense is the latter. […]
Tagged Âdlantki, baby, word of the momentThe other day I was sitting down to work on Drake’s FrathWiki page and going through old notes on what to add.  I found the note: “cases: nom gen dat acc loc”. Ah wonderful, I says to myself, I haven’t had much grammar in this yet. I rummage through everything else, though, and am only […]
Tagged cases, declension, Drake, grammarganÉ›. (É¡É‘Ì€.nÉ™) adj. Deadly, poisonous, dangerous, noxious, baneful. [Âdlantki *gani. Kirumb *ganos, Proto-Indo-European *gÊ·hn- ‘to slay’.] I don’t know how late this formation was, but Pokorny doesn’t show any cognates  that would have been built from the pattern *gÊ·hn-no- as this would be.  Most of the derivatives of this root refer to the act of […]
Tagged AtlanticSo the other day I was working on a page for the Kirumb Alphabet on FrathWiki. Â There are a few things here that I’d forgotten, and it took comparing a few other files to work out the details, but one thing everything seemed to have in common is that the standard Kirumb dialect had one […]
Tagged alphabets, conscripts, Kirumb, NotherWent through my list of Ibran sound changes to try and produce a canonical set of vowel phonemes in the language. Not entirely sure that this is complete or correct—a quick glance through the vocab I’ve generated so far showed one or two things I’d overlooked, both in the vocab and in the rules, but […]
Tagged Ibran, phonology, vowelsI wanted something cognate to Latin bombÄ«re when I started working on this word, but all the other cognates seemed a little too European; I ended up going with the PIE root *bhrem- instead (so the word is related to the Âdlantki word for ‘bee’, vormi.) The root gives an unattested Kirumb normal stem *brim-, […]
Tagged Âdlantki, buzz, word of the momentI 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 […]
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