Re: New Conlanger

On Sat, 15 May 1999, From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote:

> Some "parts of words" are specialized in adding or pointing a specific
> meaning to a word, like your "big", "medium" or "small" tags do. But when you
> say "big-animal", do you mean an animal that is big compared to other kinds
> of animals ? or bigger than the average of this kind of animals ("giant cow")
> ? etc.
Well, the Valdyan word for "sparrow" is _rhasla_ "little bird", but
there are several birds even smaller than a sparrow that have a name
of their own, like _cynla_ "titmouse". Perhaps because sparrows are
so common that they don't need to have a more distinctive name.

   Irina


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