Lexicons and Language Borrowing

Irina Rempt wrote:

> I'm curious how other people come up with words - I know some people
> who can sit down and *make* them, but if I try that I usually have to
> throw away ninety-five percent of the result.
I've done that before, and ended up not using most of them.  But I dogo
around (and have done all my life, it seems) making up fabulous
combinations of syllables, and then trying to adapt them to Teonaht.
Here are some at random--I tend to like pen-penultimate stress:

    Eldevrya -- (el-DEV-ree-uh)
        (I love the word Aldeberon... and also Hannah Green's
        "Falling God":  Anterrabae  (WOW!)
    Fyotifod  (fee-OH-tih-fohd)
    Nesryanddyza  (ness-ree-on-DEEZ-uh)
    Farlarop  (FAR-lah-rohp) --this one I think I'm gonna keep.  It
        sounds to me like a hurled object.

Here are some from my word diary:

        hselimak (SHEL-ih-mak)
        feppryd  (feh-PREED)
        dolifya  (duo-LIF-ee-uh) -- this one I entered as "noise,"
"commotion."
        bisiristimy  (bih-sih-RIS-tih-mee) -- this sounds like an
operation (because
            of the "tomy" undoubtedly, but I really do need to find a
terrific meaning
            for this word.)


> Most of the time, if I
> need a word for something, I dip into my stock of unused stems and
> consider them one by one until I hit one that fits.
This is what I started keeping the word diary for, but I find that I
justlove making long complicated words that I could never attach any
kind of history to.   My word for heaven--  Erahenahil (ehr-ah-HEN-ah-hil)

is one such word that my tongue just intuitively rolled around one day
long ago.   Sometimes combinations of stems gives me something ugly,
and then I have to decide whether I'm going to let logic or aesthetic
prevail.

Didn't I say I was yry aryel?  Me all departing?  I'm outta here?  Gotta
run?
;-)

Back to packing.
Sally

FARLAROP--  "a hurled object."  "An object one vents one's anger on."
"One who is hit by a hurled object."  "Scapegoat."
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teoeng.html