Re: USAGE: names for pillbug/wood louse/woodbug

--- And Rosta <a.rosta@...> wrote:
> Tim May:
> > So, does no-one have a word for these things in
> their conlang?
>
> I don't have a word for "eye" or "head", and my
> dictionary file
> only has a little over 2000 entries, but, I find, I
> do have a
> word for "woodlouse": ighghi.
>
> ifba    feint, dry run, mime; make as to do X,
> without actually
>         doing X
> iffila  dragonfly
> ighghi  woodlouse
> ighmeje lamb [young sheep]
> igkhwob "a specific but randomly-chosen illustrative
> example,
>         serving the communicative function of a
> bound variable
>         in some hypothetical proposition" [WHAT?!]
>
> --And.
And yet, you have no word for eye. *shakes head*  We
are a strange lot aren't we.  I have most of the body
parts, including things like trachea, and tons of
words for spices and herbs, and gemstones, but I had
to invent a words for "to grow" and "to play" to do
the new translation relay.

Adam

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