Day & month names
From: | Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...> |
Date: | Monday, May 1, 2000, 5:03 |
Nik Taylor wrote:
> > Now to return to conlanging... :-)
>
> Yes, let's. :-) The Kassí have a six-day week, named thus:
>
> (Waláaza) Wadlíkanaf - (Day) of Fire
> (Waláaza) Wanípaf - (Day) of Water
> (Waláaza) Wanafakílaf - (Day) of Air/Wind
> (Waláaza) Watisklaanúf - (Day) of Flesh
> (Waláaza) Wakassáf - (Day) of Life
> (Waláaza) Wuppáf - (Day) of Love
Thief! ;)
My personal calendar (The *Chleweyic calendar) uses a combination of numbers
and names for the different concepts... and days are based on "elements"
this way (angle brakets for names in Chleweiyish):
day 0: water day <darit cewto>
day 1: life day <darit teegu>
day 2: fire day <darit decco>
day 3: metal day <darit battu>
day 4: organic-material day (carbon day for short) <darit ficcha>
day 5: air day <darit bluffo>
day 6: moon day <darit lansa>
day 7: sun day <darit gongo>
* Chleweyish, Chleweiness, Chleweyic, Chleweyian... well, I seem to have fun
using all this derivations :D
Lap years are called wet years because they have an additional water day,
inserted at the begining of the year.
There are 12 months and 2 free weeks (or shorter months) the names (and
numbers) are:
0: free week (5 days, 6 in wet years) <wasmu zuyke>
1: joy month (30 days) <cosya nirbe>
2: anger month (29 days) <cosya nyule>
3: laziness month (30 days) <cosya erpe>
4: hope month (29 days) <cosya notte>
5: faith month (30 days) <cosya reype>
6: tender month (29 days) <cosya syale>
7: leasure week (6 days) <wasmu deyme>
8: justice month (29 days) <cosya chowme>
9: freedom month (30 days) <cosya ceege>
10: fraternity month (29 days) <cosya lassye>
11: love month (30 days) <cosya lombe>
12: soberb month (29 days) <cosya creyfe>
13: craziness month (30 days) <cosya wippe>
All 30 days months begin in a water day and the 29 days months begin in life
day.
Current year is 27, current month is tender and current day is life (first
life of tender).
Years follow a 8 year cycle and there are 16 year cycles each 128 years.
128 is important since there are exactly 31 wet years in the 128 year cycle:
Years in a cycle (octade) are named after animlas:
0: mouse year <wowop robito>
1: dog year <wowop brando>
2: fly year <wowop nuyro>
3: cat year <wowop wambo>
4: bear year <wowop tuyco>
5: toad year <wowop suyno>
6: horse year <wowop hinhiro>
7: rabbit year <wowop firdo>
And cycles are named after colours:
0: black <rurwop lose>
1: brown <rurwop socce>
2: red <rurwop loome>
3: orange <rurwop vule>
4: yellow <rurwop medde>
5: green <rurwop quappe>
6: blue <rurwop fuyle>
7: purple <rurwop rabbe>
8: gray <rurwop hayre>
9: white <rurwop dofe>
10: light sky blue <rurwop djecke>
11: pink <rurwop carse>
12: golden <rurwop bawde>
13: cyan <rurwop wamme>
14: beige <rurwop birce>
15: magenta <rurwop breyse>
Today (from 30th April noon to 1st May noon GMT) is then:
First Life of Tender of the first Red Cat.
(teegu syale pesse wambo e loome pesse).
or writen in hexa-octal notation:
x001Bx6o01 (or 001B601)
(wowop ghey ruryom cosya rapet darit rey)
(na na ghey ruryom rapet na rey)
The wet years?
the following years are wet years (in the period 0-127):
4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28,
33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 57, 61,
66, 70, 74, 78, 82, 86, 90, 94,
99, 103, 107, 111, 115, 119, 123, 127
Anybody try to guess where was the first Chleweyic day in both Chleweyic and
Gregorian notations?
-- Carlos Th