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Re: Bell

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Thursday, December 22, 2005, 20:43
Charlie wrote:

> My source for senjecan vocabulary does not have a word for "bell," as > in "ding=dong." Does anyone have a compound word for "bell" in his > conlang? For that matter, how do your conlangs say, "ding-dong"? >
Kash is based on onomatopoeia-- tañ [taN] sound of a large bell; andañ a large bell tiñ sound of a small bell; etiñ a small bell; titiñ to ring (of a bell)-- it's marked (vi) in the dictionary, but ought to be (vi,vt) You could probably say tiñ-tiñ, tañ-tañ or tiñ-tañ for "ding-ding, ding-dong" etc. A Carillon would be _kakambrandañ_ 'set of bells'; hand-bells (if they have them) would be kakambretiñ; the set of tubular bells used by orchestras (if they have them) would likely be: cindarinda tiñ 'musical-scale +bell' And there probably ought to be also: tatañ to ring (a large bell, maybe "peal"). There could also be causatives-- runditiñ, rundatañ?? 'to ring, make ring (trans.)'-- but referring to things other than bells I think. Somewhere in the to-do list is an expression for "to ring the changes" both lit. and fig. Probably deliberately IIRC, the words for 'hammer(ing)' are similar: triñ 'light hammering, tapping', trañ 'heavy hammering' with similar derivatives.

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