Re: "vocabulary" in divers tongues

Silindion might be something like:

  puronankoina  "word-collection"

   * puro "word"
   * nankoina  "placing away for later on, savings"
     the gerund from nankoy- "to save for later,
collect, save, preserve"

 or  purosa "word-group"

 Elliott Lash

> >
> >> Asha'ille does not yet have a word for
> "vocabulary." "Language"
> is
> >> |dasharíd|, which is etymologically from |das|
> "all" and |sharíd|
> >> "word".
> >
> >> There also exists the morpheme |-eme|,
> "collection of," which
> would
> >> make |sharídeme| mean, literally, a
> "collection of words." Less
> poetic
> >> than a tesorería de palabras, though.
> >
> >In gjax-zym-byn, I reckon I would have {hyw im
> gjax-txy-zla},
> >memory in-part_of language-element-whole_set.
> >
> >> Anyone have good methods or advice
> >> on coming up with nice, figurative phrases?
> >
> >If your language has different words for different
> >kinds of collective groupings - like, in English:
> >hoard, collection, heap, kit, etc. - you might
> >get some mileage from that.
> >
> >Yes, I like the idea of deriving the notion
> >from a nominalization of a verb meaning "to collect
> >(as a stamp, coin, rare book, etc. collector)"
> >- like "collection" in English but more specific.
> >
> >Or from a word meaning "toolkit" or "complete set
> of eating
> >utensils" or "full ceremonial dress outfit" or...
>
> Ceqli has "vorjamaw", consisting of "vor", word,
> from Germanic in
> general, and "jamaw," store, supply, from Hindi.
>


		
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