Re: measuring time
| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 23, 2005, 4:44 |
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--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@H...> wrote:
>But my problem is about units of time, there are the year, the moon
>cycle, and the day but I don't know what I could use that may be
more >little than a day.
In the beginning the Senyecan language had only the following terms
for time:
dïêyan = day
lââpan = dawn, daybreak to sunrise
aayêran = sunrise to noon
meðdïêyan = noon
µespêran = noon to sunset (µ = m_0)
µesôôsan = dusk, sunset to nightfall
nêcüan = night
meðnêcüan = midnight
When the humans began to measure time more exactly, the Senyecuni who
lived among them appropriated the word "tênan," which originally
meant simply a period of time, to mean "hour." To this were added
diminutive endings for minute and second.
tênlan = minute
tênlëcan = second
Charlie
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