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Re: New Conlanger

From:Irina Rempt <ira@...>
Date:Saturday, May 15, 1999, 18:27
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 Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastinay. irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/index.html (English) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/backpage.html (Nederlands)