Re: What would you call this?

Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Yza reimolazo
> > yza reim     -ol      -azo
> > 3f  see      PASSIVE  PAST
> > "She saw"
> >
> > Eze reimeizazo
> > eze reim     -eiz        -azo
> > 3m  contact  ANTIPASSIVE PAST
> > "He was seen"
>
> This seems backwards to me.  Shouldn't the first be "antipassive" and
> the second "passive"?
See corrective post.

> > PS Altaii word of the day; Maralandzhinistaiz "neotraditionalism".
>
> Reminds me of "Democratic Monarchism", the political philosophy behind
> the Fifth Kassi Empire.  I don't know their language well enough to
> know
> how to say it, tho.  :-)
"Democratic Monarchism"? That would be _balavyni elataninaiz_ in Altaii.
Interestingly, the _balavyni_ "democratic" is a calque on the Tairezazh
_zhrishkergan_, while the later is a Keshean loan (albeit with a couple Altaii
endings on). This despite that Altaii's ancestor Classical Vaikin has
otherwise been the most important source of political vocabulary in the region.

There's, however, more native words for "monarchism" available too. We have
_elavyninaiz_,which still involves the Keshean root _elx-_ "emperor", and
_soroavyninaiz_, which is archaizing but 100% native.

Tangentially, the _soro_ "prince" in _soroavyninaiz_ is the origin of the
adjective _soroyne_, which originally meant "monarchistic", but long ago,
during the twists and turns of the interior politics of the early post-Federal
Vaikin principalities, shifted to mean simply "loyal". Moreover, the word is a
dastardly interdialectal loan - it should be _soroy_ if it had got from Late
Classical Vaikin to Modern Standard Altaii via the normal route.

                                                             Andreas