Re: Autumnal weekly vocab
From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
Date: | Monday, September 17, 2007, 14:21 |
Quoting taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>:
> I'm having a small crisis of.. faith? conlanging
> provesse[sic??]? <fill in suitable word>? myself as I'm not sure
> what to do with weather words anymore. Are they verbs? Nouns?
> States? None of the above?
Somewhat embarassingly, Tairezazh is the only of my conlangs with any weather
vocabulary, and boringly enough they're subjectless verbs, eg. _andzh_ "(it)
storms". Now, Tairezazh wouldn't be Tairezazh if there weren't nominalizations -
in this case _andzhan_ "a storm", _andzhent_ "(the process of) storming", etc -
but the verbal forms are clearly primary.
Andreas