Re: Homonyms across conlangs (part 1)

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From: "Sanghyeon Seo" <sanxiyn@...>


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> Now I am working on compiling wordlists for various conlangs (one word
> per line, UTF-8 encoded), and formalizing their letter-to-sound rules
> if possible. In order to have a look at homonyms across conlangs.
>
> Here's my first result, Iliani-Verdurian homonyms. Actually, since I
> haven't completed letter-to-sound part, these are really homographs.
>
> Is this interesting in any way? :-)
Totally, Sanghyeon!  While I don't believe that phonology reveals meaning,
one might see if there are preferences for certain syllable combinations.
What made you choose these two conlangs?

> Seo Sanghyeon
>
> aldea: Iliani sorrow, Verdurian village
> aran: Iliani twenty, Verdurian cradle
> firan: Iliani weaver, Verdurian to ferment
> gali: Iliani script, Verdurian bath
> gran: Iliani sane, Verdurian border
> grel: Iliani clean-shaven, Verdurian hail
> grelan: Iliani barber, Verdurian to hail
> gula: Iliani to descend, Verdurian bile
> host: Iliani white, Verdurian bone
> lest: Iliani blue, Verdurian unit of distance
> mena: Iliani to give, Verdurian wave
> mura: Iliani to lie (flat), Verdurian wonder
> pula: Iliani to harvest, Verdurian sphere
> sora: Iliani to hunt, Verdurian community
> torin: Iliani fame, Verdurian apart
What might be equally interesting is finding out how many conlangs have
homonyms within themselves, as I think this is a feature of most natural
languages and a good source of punning..  I've been trying to assign more
than one meaning to words I make up, but I've noted a few inadvertant
homonyms in Teonaht:

aista, "this (bad) thing";  aista, "to work"
fel, "you"; fel, "beauty, brightness"
fon, "dust"; fon, "is deep"
korb, "knot, bulge"; korb, "crow"
mear, "northern"; mear, "simple."
sinis, "shooting star" (object case); sinis, "burnt out."

There ought to be more.

Sally
Euil Yrlo toil epa hsinva marreadaf!
Give praise to God for the left eye.

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