Re: Concept_sitting

> Erbrice <erbrice@...> wrote:
>
> For my conlang I need to decide if a concept can be splitted or not.
> for exemple : rain (sky+ water and possibly "falling") stand, and lay
> could be body direction (horizontal or vertical) love is the kind of
> concept I yet couldn't split. The concept of 'sitting/sit, I cannot
> get yet what it contains.
This sounds to me like creating compound words, forming new lexicon
entries out of words already in the lexicon.  I should think that most,
if not all, languages do this.  I remember how pleased I was with
myself when I created the Senjecan word for "scissors," from "dwo" two
+ "siimos" knife, "dwosiimos"!

I don't know what words you have in your conlang, but perhaps you have
a word for "put, place, position" and a word for "butt, behind,
buttocks."  A sentence like "Please come in and sit down" could be
translated as "Please come in and butt-place."  Or you could use the
verb-noun compound as Spanish does: *"pon(n)algas," "place-butt."

Charlie

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