Re: Musical terms (Was: Playing the banjo (Was: Latin help))

>caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
>
> Does anyone want to share his or her conlang words
> for musical  instruments and other musical terms?  I'm always
> looking to enrich the Senjecan vocabulary.
I have the following words pertaining to music, so far, in Senjecas.
It's an odd assortment, but I add words to the vocabulary as I think
of them: "Now what would that be in Senjecas."  The majority of ideas
in Senjecas are based on verbs so, when applicable, the verb is give
first, then its derivatives.

foola: to fall, descend.

kan-a: to chant; -os, chant; -us, chanter.

kurt-a: to play a harp; -os, harp; -us, harpist.

meelts-a: to beat; -os, beat.

meb-a: to dance; -os, dance; -us, dancer.

mehj-a: to enlarge; -is, major.

minw-a: to diminish; -is, minor.

ned-a: to play the syrinx; -os, reed, syrinx.

senhl-a: to sing; -os, song; -us, singer.

swen-a: to sound, play (an instrument); -retsa, to tune ("sound
regulate"); -retsos, tune; -tsihmos, timbre (sound color); -
vererdhas, pitch (sound height).

tsam-os: horn (of an ungulate), bugle; -dzeenos, bugle call.

tsuts-a: to whirl around, play a drum roll; -os, drum roll.

tswej-a: to blow a whistle, play the pipes; -makos, bagpipes; -os,
whistle, pipes; -oqlos, flute; -oqlaagus, flutist (I do miss the word
flautist); -senhlus, one who sings to the flute.

taaka: fix, plant, compose (music).

tentos: chord.

tor-a: to louden; -is, forte.

vend-a: to tie, bind; -ëdzeenos, legato sign.

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