On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Roger Mills wrote:
> >From another (ahem, serious) list, I received the following inquiry, which
> might be of conlang interest, too, as it covers areas of vocabulary often
> overlooked. Obviously if your conpeople are not anthropoid, some entries
> may not apply (as "earlobe" DNA in Kash). As will be noted, Kash vocab.
> doesn't yet cover everything, and I don't have time to go thru the process
> whiile doing email. For some of these there would presumably be purely
> medical terms as well as popular.
The Valdyan vocabulary doesn't cover everything either; I'm only
doing those I have at the moment.
> List One: Minor Body Parts (VALDYAN)
> concept: anus
> form: gul
> literal gloss: bottom (of an object)
> concept: ankle
Should exist, but I've mislaid it.
> concept: bone
> form: gorsen (usually in the collective plural: gorsin "skeleton")
> literal gloss: bone(s)
> concept: blood
> form: grin
> literal gloss: blood
>
> concept: breast milk
> form: novei bryth
> literal gloss: breast-of milk
>
> concept: menstrual blood
> form: lauyin; grinyin
> literal gloss: moon-things (menstruation); drops-of-blood
>
> concept: semen/sperm
> form: garin
> literal gloss: seed
>
> concept: tears
> form: lysin
> literal gloss: tears
>
> concept: urine
> form: dush
> literal gloss: urine
Irina
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