Re: asking for the bathroom

On 1 June,  Dan Jones wrote:

>Dan Sulani wrote:
>
>>     In rtemmu, I would say:
>>
>> usinano dyuxoo`gfairduru, weris?
>
>I love "weris", especially for a sentance which asks "where is".
    It's actually a coincidence. Believe it or not, when I wanted a
prefix  that, when added to a word, would turn it into a question-word,
I decided upon /we/ pronounced just as it looks in IPA
(or like "way" in English) with no further thought.

    Some of the other combinatory words in rtemmu are:

    tis = time
    rtun = person
    rbihn = reason
    ris = location

adding "we-" would result in:

    wetis =  ( = /we-tis/, not /wet-is/ ) = when?
    wertun ( = /we-rtun/,  not /wer-tun/) = who?
    werbihn (= /we-rbihn/,  not /wer-bihn/ ) = why?

    and of course:

    weris = where? and pronounced /we-ris/ .

In each case, the boundary between the prefix and the
following word is also a syllable boundary in pronounciation.


Thanks, though, for spotting it,  Dan. It makes for a great
mnemonic for remembering it! :-)

BTW, some other combinatory prefixes in rtemmu are:

    r`ko (= /Rko/) = every
    g~am (= /Nam/ ) = none

thus:

    r`kotis = every time
    r`kortun = everybody
    r`korbihn= for every reason
    r`koris = everywhere

    g~amtis = never
    g~amrtun = nobody
    g~amrbihn = for no reason
    g~amris = nowhere

Dan Sulani

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