Re: Bell

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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