VOCABULARY AID: Basic and Additional Vocabulary (topics 1 - 10)

Hey!

Time for another vocabulary aid. What I'm posting under this
title during the next time is taken from a little book of
my father's, _Grund und Aufbauwortschatz_ by Klett Verlag,
(c) 1977, 1/1981.

There's much in there that you won't need for a conlang or
stuff you must make fit to your conlang's / -culture's /
-worlds's needs.

Have fun,
Carsten






I. QUANTITY
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1. Numbers
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Basics:
account, amount, average, difference, division, figure,
growth, heap, number, rest, result, sum, variety, zero --
to total -- absolute, all, another, any, different, entire,
every, few, final, first, general, half, immense, many,
one, quite, second, several, single, some, total -- about,
almost, below, frequent, further, once, over, very.

Additional vocabulary:
the four rules, addition, substraction, multiplication,
remainder, fraction, even/odd number, cardinal/ordinal
number, surplus, the multiplication-table problem in
arithmetic, dozen/a score, pile, bulk, to substract, to
multiply, to calculate, to compute, to lessen, to
eliminate, to total up, numerous/countless, innumerable,
(in)definite


2. Measurements and Weights
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Basics:
date, depth, detail, distance, end, equality, fortune, hour,
length, load, measure, mile, minute, month, pair, pause,
quarter, surface, year -- to estimate, to thin, to weigh --
deep, distant, equal, even, farther, great, heavy, high,
irregular, less, light, long, more, most, much, narrow,
near.

Additional vocabulary:
measure of length, square/cubic/liquid measure, an inch, a
foot, a yard, a sqare inch, an acre, a square mile, a cubic
foot, a register ton, a pint, a quart, a gallon, a bushel,
avoirdupois, an ounce, a pound, a stone, a hundredweight, a
ton, breadth, burden, contents, capacity, to enlarge, to
widen, to deepen, to shorten


3. Amounts
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Basics:
barrel, basin, basket, bottle, bowl, box, capital, debt,
division, gift, interests, lot, mass, means, part, plenty,
price, profit, quantity, savings, space, value, worth -- to
class, to deal, to distribute, to gain, to gather, to give,
to increase, to leave, to lend, to lose, to receive, to
reduce, to rise, to ruin -- entirely.

Additional vocabulary:
proportion/mixture, trifle, gap, to deprive s.o. of s.th.,
to lower, to diminish, to consume, to contribute (to), to
heap up, sufficient, grave, extremely/compeletely




II. TIME
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4. Points in and spaces of time
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Basics:
age, birth, century, date, death, evening, future, holiday,
moment, morning, past, presence, silence, time, year, youth
-- to begin, to fade, to hurry, to last, to pass -- ago,
ancient, due, early, former, future, immediate, late,
original, present, regular, up-to-date, young -- after,
afterwards, all of a sudden, already, at first, again,
finally, gradually, immediately, now, sometimes, soon,
then, till, when.

Additional vocabulary:
period, duration, eternity, present, instant, posterity,
childhood/old age, to elapse, to linger, to cease, to
resume, durable/eternal, primitive, constant,
instantaneous, simultaneously, instantly, previously


5. Calendar
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Basics:
April, August, autumn, century, Christmas, day, December,
Easter, February, Friday, holiday, January, June, July,
March, May, Monday, month, moon, November, October,
Saturday, September, spring, summer, sun, Sunday, Tuesday,
Thursday, Wednesday, week, winter, year -- always, today,
tomorrow, tonight, yesterday.

Additional vocabulary:
calendar, working-day, week-day, leap-year, decade,
birthday, Whitsuntide (Pentecoste), dusk, dawn, twilight, a
fortnight


6. Time, Clock
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Basics:
afternoon, clock, day, evening, hour, minute, moment,
morning, night, quarter, watch -- to advance, to ring, to
stop -- exact, fast, late, quick, slow -- in the afternoon,
always, this evening, again.

Additional vocabulary:
alarm-clock, (wrist-)watch, dial, long/short hand, sun-dial,
forenoon, quarter of an hour, half an hour, to put back,
a.m./p.m.




III. Outer Space
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7. Space and Sky

Basics:
air, cloud, distance, earth, east, echo, form, heaven,
height, limit, line, material, middle, north, shadow,
shape, sky, south, space, star, sun, surface, temperature,
turn, west, world -- to appear, to light up, to slow up, to
turn -- bright, clear, high, long, natural.

Additional vocabulary:
darnkness, new/full moon, waxing/waining moon, crescent,
sunbeam, eclipse of the sun/moon, sunshine, fixed star,
planet, shooting star, the milky way, celestial body,
pole-star, Charles's wain/The Great Bear, to beam/dazzle,
to revolve (round), to illuminate, to gleam, blazing,
(in)visible, sunburnt


8. Weather
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Basics:
air, blast, cold, degre, drop, fog, heat, ice, rain, shower,
snow, temperature, thunder, weather, wind -- to blow, to
change, to fall, to melt, to rain, to warm, to whistle --
bad, clear, cold, dark, dry, ffine, fresh, hot, rainy,
violent, warm, wet.

Additional vocabulary:
thermometer, barometer, atmospheric pressure, climate, the
tropics, whirlwind, snow-storm/-flake, hurricane,
weather-forecast/-chart, moisture, dew, thunderstorm/-clap,
hail, frost/hoar-frost, heat wave/cold spell, mist,
raindrop/rainbow, cloudburst, thaw, drought, to splash/to
trickle, to rage, to howl, to shiver, to soak, stormy,
changeable/unsettled, foggy, chilly, sultry, moist, damp,
overcast, hazy


9. Geography and Geology
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Basics:
bank, bay, capital, coal, colony, commerce, cotton, country,
course, crossign, discovery, district, earth, gold, grass,
ground, growth, hill, hole, iron, island, land, length,
life, map, mark, market, merchant, metal, mine, mountian,
mouth, mud, nation, native, neighbour, ocean, origin,
outline, passage, path, people, plain, plant, poool, rail,
range, sand, settlement, slope, soil, spring, square,
state, station, stone, stream, street, trade, traffic,
valley, voyage, water, way -- to cover, to extend, to
flood, to flow, to form, to grow, to separate, to shake, to
stretch, to surround -- broad, clear, commercial, deep,
high, local, low, native, plain, pure, rare -- across,
anywher,e apart, around, aside, away, backwards, behind,
below, beneath, near, next, nowhere, over.

Additional vocabulary:
continent mainland, hemisphere, north/south pole, equator,
horizon, summit, ridge, pass, gorge, landslip, glacier,
lake, canal, cave, pasture, heath, highlands, plateau,
boulder, volcano, eruption, marsh, bog, swamp, whirlpool,
eddy, stagnant water, earthquake, waterfall, clearing,
oasis, dike/dam, straits, beach, gulf, the tides, low/high
tide, breakers, isthmus, sluice, ock, inundation, cliff,
sand-bank, promontory, brook, affluent, tributary,
watershed, divide, ford, to submerge, to overflow, to be
outlined against, to burst forth, steep, shallow, extinct,
earthly, earthen, marshy, boggy, swampy, muddy
Europe (European), Germany (German), the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland (British), England
(English), Ireland (Irish), Scotland (Scottish, Scotch),
Wales (Welsh), Austria (Austrian), Belgium (Belgian), Spain
(Spanish), France (French), Italy (Italian), the
U.S.S.R/the Soviet Union (Soviet-(Russian)), Switzerland
(Swiss), the Netherlands (Dutch), Sweden (Swedish), Denmark
(Danish), Norway (Norwegian), Greece (Greek), Africa
(African), Asia (Asian), China (Chinese), Japan (Japanese),
America (American), The United States of America
(American), Australia (Australian), London, Dublin,
Edinburgh, Vienna, Brussels, Rome, Leghorn, Moscow, the
Hague, Tokyo, Washington, Canberra
the Straight of DOver, the English Channel, the Irish Sea,
the Pennine Chain, the Shetland Islands, the ORkney
Islands, the Isle of Wight, the North Sea, the Atlantic
Ocean, the Mediterranean, the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Rocky
Mountains, the Appalachians, the Great Lakes


10. Space, Length in Space
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Basics:
base, bottom, centre, corner, course, crossing, difference,
direction, distance, end, entrance, extension, extent,
front, haste, height, hurry, length, middle, place,
quarter, range, spot, step, surface, zone -- to cover, to
creep, to develop, to distinguish, to divide, to drive, to
drop, to ente,r to escape, to extend, to fall, to fasten,
to find, to flow, to fly, to fold, to follow, to gather, to
handle, to head, to hold, to hurry, to inculde, to jump, to
keep, to lean, to leave, to lie, to lift, to lower, to
pass, to place, to ride, to rock, to roll, to run, to
shake, to sink, to sit, to slide, to slip, to spread, to
stand, to turn, to twist -- aboard, abroad, absent, calm,
different, distant, distinct, empty, flat, high, irregular,
large, left, level, local, long, quick, right, round, wide
-- across, after, against, ahead, around, aside,
backward(s), before, below, beneath, beside, between,
beyond, close, contrary, down, farther, here, inside, of,
under, up, upper, upstairs, upwards, where.

Additional vocabulary:
expanse, dimension, vacuum, extremity, frontier, boundary,
neighbourhood, remoteness, upper part, to expand, to hover,
to soar up, to descend, extensive, widespread, voluminous,
bulky, centrally located, spacious, comprehensive,
far-reaching

--
Eri silveváng aibannama padangin.
Nivaie evaenain eri ming silvoieváng caparei.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince
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