Re: Devoid

On 18/06/06, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
> On 6/17/06, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> > I happened upon the word "devoid" today.  It seems to be an
> > interesting adjective.  While synonyms are "empty, vacant, etc." it
>
> > How do you conlangers handle it in your conlangs?
>
> gzb has a suffix "-ta" meaning "without, lacking".
>
> /Cun   pwIm-ta/
> region  water-without
> "desert"
Pardon me, but how is that second word pronounced? Is the /w/ really a
[u] (just phonologically a consonant), or the /l/ syllabic, hence
/pwl=m-ta/?

I haven't though about this in Fotisk yet (and can't even type the
name of the language properly on this Windows keyboard devoid of
accents :) But a long time ago (in Weekly Vocab 29, 17 November 2003)
I mentioned that I wanted a good word in Fotisk for "law" that was
neither based on the Old English nor German roots, nor borrowed.
Various suggestions were made, but I think I've decided today that I
am happy with using the root providing "word" to mean "law"; with the
root providing "writing" coming to mean "word" over a long enough
period of time, and the word meaning "write" a borrowing from Latin
(as is common in many other European languages). I'm not entirely sure
what these words are, but I think the last one is probably _scripan_
or more nativised as _screpan_, _scrip-_. Doesn't that sound happy?

--
Tristan

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