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Re: Neat conlang words

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 18, 2003, 20:21
Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:

> Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>: > > > Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>: > > > > > Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>: > > > > > > > Andreas Johansson wrote: > > > > > > > PS Altaii word of the day; Maralandzhinistaiz > "neotraditionalism". > > > > > > > > Reminds me of "Democratic Monarchism", the political philosophy > > > behind > > > > the Fifth Kassi Empire. I don't know their language well enough > to > > > know > > > > how to say it, tho. :-) > > > > > > Reminds me of Phaleran: _Andûrprâs_ "Rule by the whim or fancy of > > > a hereditary autocrat". > > > > That seems to cram alot of meaning into three syllables. Would you > break it > > down to morphemes? > > The first morpheme is _andûr_, which is the Phaleran word for > spontaneous or unpremeditated action. _Prâs_ originally meant > just "council" (as in _Prâstyumen_, the "Council of Twenty", > the board which enforces adherence to state ideology in matters > of religion and science), but its meaning has become a general > marker of government type, and sometimes, like English _theocracy_, > it is rule *by virtue* of some characteristic or feature.
OK. I was thinking you had somehow crammed in that it was specifically the whims of a hereditary autocrat. Andreas