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

Carsten Becker wrote:

> 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.
Thank you. Very interesting. It's pretty much the way I built Kash
vocabulary-- pick a topic, free-associate as many words as possible, then
assign Kash forms. Gaps are inevitable, but can be filled in when they're
discovered.

Even your father's list has omissions (ah-- this is only 1-10, I see, not
the complete list)-- e.g. nothing about the home (rooms, furniture, cooking,
utensils; leads also to architecture, construction, tools... leads to Good
Heavens!!); clothing (articles, materials-- leads to sources [plants,
animals]), etc. etc. almost ad infinitum.

IMO vocabulary is one of the most fun parts of conlanging.

{snip useful list, which will immediately be compared to Kash vocab./ to-do
list :-)))))) }