Re: Can't stop agulunating, HELP!

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:02:57 -0700 Sally Caves <scaves@...>
writes:
>So you saw my "hirie," did you?  heh heh... It was very naughty of me.
>I have quite a little lexicon growing of words from other people's
>conlangs.  Does anybody else do this?
Yup.
The Rokbeigalmki word for "friend", _hhatidh_, comes from my IRC friend
ChrisA's conlang Vendi [vEndaj].  The actual Vendic word, _ati_, is the
noun "friendship" in Rokbeigalmki.

>Kemet, from Tokana: a collection of objects that whirl around and
>        take off, like blown leaves or flocks of birds.
>                        Ex.  "My mind is in a kemet of confusion."
In Rokbeigalmki _kemet_ means a full-body shake, since i didn't have a
use for the real meaning at the time.  For instance, shaking your finger
"no" at someone wouldn't be _kemet_, but going into convulsions from
laughing too hard would.

>What other cool words have you noted from other people's conlangs?
>I seem to remember "vrindo" from I've forgotten whom.  It sounds VERY
>Teonaht, which is why I noted it.
And of course, there's the whole Tolkienic Proto-Elven substrate (or
superstrate?) built into the Rokbeigalmki vocabulary, i.e.:

TOL, "island" - used interchangeably with the similar R. word ITA~L.
SED, "peace" - in PE "quiet", used as a shortening of R. SEDNU
KWENED, "a sentient" - from PE "one who speaks", similar to _Quendi_
OKTA, "war" - distinct from the R. word FIIZHAG, "fight"
OLVES, "sprouting" - from PE collective OLVAR, "plantkind"
ABA, "refusal" - from the same root as Elven AVARI, "those who refuse(d)"
ELENI, "dome" (such as 'dome of heaven') - meaning "stars" in PE
MER, "request" - meaning "want" in PE
AHYA, "holiness" - from AYAN, "holy"
KOTH, "enemy" - from PE root KOT, "quarrel" (related to OKTA)
THUTIHL, "chimney" - from the PE combination THU-TIL, "blow-point"
PERES, "worship" - meaning "disturb" in PE, distinct from the R. word
DAVIHN "pray" (from Yiddish)
IHMBAOD, "cruelty" - from a conflation of the PE words MBAD "prison" and
MBAW "force"

But of course there's a concultural reason for all the Proto-Elven words
in Rokbeigalmki, so it doesn't *really* count as borrowing from another's
conlang, does it? ;-)


-Stephen (Steg), bbbbbbbbb!


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