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Å onos, korfos.

Å¡on|os, -oÅ¡.  masc.  People (in general).  [PIE *ǵonH₁-o-.] korf|os, -iris. neut.  The body.  [PIE *kÊ·rp-es-.] I think Å¡onos was inspired by Sanskrit jana, but I’m not sure.  It is used in the singular, in general or indefinite statements along the lines of ‘people say….’  I suppose it would be slightly more specific than an impersonal passive […]

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2011 12 24 Muke Nother Comments (0)

Roscenhoil / rôzănhoilă.

Roesan Ibran: roscenhoil (рошшъњөјл). /ËŒrɔç.çəˈɲœjl/ Paysan Ibran: rôzănhoilă. /ËŒrÉ”.çəˈɲɔj.lÉ™/ fem. The nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos. [Vulgar Latin rusciniola.] The Latin for nightingale is luscinia, as can be seen from the binomen, but Ibran, like French, Spanish, and some other Romance languages, does not use this form directly. The Vulgar Latin underlying forms like French rossignol and […]

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2011 11 14 Muke Piataia Comments (0)

Hirve.

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 […]

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2011 10 30 Muke Nother Comments (0)

Trentish word of the moment.

ningoh. (ˈniÅ‹o) prep. Around; about; in the neighborhood of. For Trentish, I picked up a random phrasebook off Google Books to mine for sample sentences. This example is … not particularly illustrative of the phrasal diversity I’m hoping for, but we’ll move along as we move along. Ningohgrlr kwrlusyixr? /niÅ‹okÊŒlÊŒ kÊ·ÊŒlusjixÊŒ/ ningoh-gr-lr around-this-place kwr-lusyi-xr be-2-3 Is […]

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2011 05 05 Muke Nother Comments (0)

Kirumb word of the moment.

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 […]

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2011 04 11 Muke Nother Comments (0)

Kirumb words of the moment.

Feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve worked on Kirumb, for some reason. So, one of my projects in it is to make sure I have a decent amount of vocabulary.  The official beginning of this is translations of all the NSM primes.   I already had words for ‘I’ and ‘you’, but […]

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2011 04 06 Muke Nother Comments (0)

Âdlantki word of the moment.

pruÅ¡ni. (prúʃ.ni) n. Offspring, progeny. A baby; an infant. [Proto-Indo-European *proHâ‚‚-ǵnH₁-o-.] As one of the glosses suggests, this is a near cognate to “progeny”, though the formation was meant to follow Sanskrit प्रजा prajā. 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. […]

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2011 03 23 Muke Nother Comments (2)

‘Buzz’ in Âdlantki

I 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-, […]

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2011 01 10 Muke Nother Comments (2)

Âdlantki words of the moment

Unlike 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 κύων, Latin canis, English hound, […]

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2010 05 27 Muke Nother Comments (0)