Re: relay 1: Czevraqis vocbulary details, 1/3 et seq

On Wednesday, August 22, 2001, at 04:30 PM, Roger Mills wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
>> (Outdated, probably archaic) paradigm:
>>
>> verb: C_CaCu
>> adj:  C_CiCu
>> noun: CeC_Ca
>>
>>   verb/adj   infix       noun
>> ======================================
>> generic       -e-   state
>> causative     -ae-  doer (professional)
>> instrumental  -a-   tool
>> habitual      -ai-  doer (casual)
>> intensive     -o-   emphatic
>> attenuative   -i-   diminutive
>
> A very nice system, exhibiting very interesting explorations of the
> semantic
> range of the various concepts.  Some of your derivations are quite
> beautiful.
>>
<blush>  Thank you.  It's a lot of fun, too.

>> meranu: to search/discover, find
>> adj: inquisitive
>> state: discovery
>> doer (prof): explorer
>> doer (cas): child (especially at the ages when they're busy Getting Into
>> Things, I suppose)
>> tool: curiosity
>> emphatic: expedition
>> diminutive: insight, what happens when the glasses you are looking for
>> are
>> right in front of you
>
> The only problem I have with derivational systems like this (and
> Indonesian
> and Kash are guilty, too) is that sometimes you end up repeating the same
> root more times than is considered desirable (in English stylistics at any
> rate)...  For example, how would you say "the inquisitive child of the
> explorer on the expedition....", or are synonyms available?
>
<rueful look>  Yeah--there's a similarly troublesome cluster of concepts
around "swift," "horse" and "wind," among other things.  I imagine there
are a lot of Awful Tongue Twisters.  <wry g>  I would like to eventually
have synonyms (with varying connotations, of course) and also terms formed
by compounding processes, then (sometimes)
truncuated/abbreviation/mutilated.  The only problem with this grand
scheme is, as ever, time.  :-)

> Obvious solution:  repetition is a PLUS in X stylistics.
>
=^)  I imagine so!

What are your favourite word-clusters in Kash?

YHL