Re: self designations

From: "dirk elzinga" <dirk.elzinga@...>
> What names do the speakers of your languages use to refer to
> themselves? Are the names morphologically transparent? How did
> these names come about?
Hadwan speakers call themselves by a name meaning roughly 'griffin people'
and their language as 'griffin language'[1].  Although they are not humans,
they're not griffins either--technically, griffins don't exist.  The griffin
is the symbol of the people (probably.. all I know so far is that it is at
least on the coins).  I don't actually know why it's so important, though I
have an idea that in the Middle Ages some Hadwan storyteller will coin some
undying fable about him.

As for the actual word, I know the word for 'griffin' is either <kirobos>
/kI"ru:BUs/ (stem kirobo-) or <kirops> /ki"ru:ps/ (stem <kirob->).  I don't
have the morphology yet to say what the actual self-name would be, though.


    *Muke!
[1] Interestingly I didn't waffle about the spelling of
gryphon/griffon/griffin this time and went directly to "griffin".  I wonder
what that means.