Re: Heat 'n' cold

On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, FFlores wrote:

> Oh help! It's been around 38 degrees C all day until a
> while back (and it's 10 PM!). The river is drying, and so
> am I.
Salnien gyrn rozean so ti nadaynat, ei? In summer the sun dries up
the river and you, eh?

> But I won't just complain about it. What words do you
> have in your conlangs related to weather? Any really weird
> ones? Do you have special words for terrible heat (or cold)?
I don't know whether any of these are especially weird :-)

Let's start with something to cool you down:

rhis - cold

crys - snow (on the ground or in the air)
crysa - to snow
lea crysat - it's snowing
crysen - snowflake
crysin - falling snow, a shower of snow

Most of Valdyas has a very mild climate, and most of what I've seen
was in the middle and south - in Ryshas there's a bit of snow on two
or three days at most in a cold winter, and in Essle it hardly ever
snows at all - snow is something to remember.

Now against the _nadayen_ "drought":

daysen - raindrop (drop of water)
daysena - to rain
lea daysenat - it's raining
daysin - rain

And where that comes from:

sud - cloud
sudi - clouds, cloud cover, cloudy sky

When it's raining, it's likely that you also get:

rach - wind
racha - to blow (wind), to be windy
lea rachat - it's windy, there's a wind
rachyn - gust of wind
rashen - windy spell
tarach - gentle wind, breeze
tarashen - a breeze
doracha - to storm
dorashen - storm

And this as well:

turn - thunder
turna - to thunder (also: to rumble, to growl)
lea turnat - it's thundering
tursen - thunderstorm

istyn - lightning, bolt of lightning
istyna - to flash (like lightning)
lea istynat - there's a flash of lightning

One that doesn't seem to fit anywhere:

fost - fog (also "smoke", "steam")

And the seasons:

farinas - spring (lea farinat - spring is beginning)
salnen - summer
pul - harvest, autumn
ferhin - winter

   Irina

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