Re: Lexeme Request: Water and Fire

On Friday 27 May 2005 02:27 am, David J. Peterson wrote:
> I'm giving another talk on language creation this coming Tuesday,
> and I had a very simple request.  I'd like to gather some samples
> of the words (nouns, hopefully) for "fire" and "water" in a bunch
> of different conlangs.  Since this is related to conlanging, you can
> reply onlist, but there might be a bunch of replies, in which case
> offlist replies are fine.  To get the ball rolling, here's the words for
> "fire" and "water" in several of my conlangs:
>
> Fire:
> Zhyler: dZimwi
> Kamakawi: kava
> Kelenala: asi
> Sathir: jeZin
> Njaama: tS'oozu
> Epiq: naS@
> Gweydr: ?6Ngr
> Sheli: ved
>
> Fire:
> Zhyler: iSwi
> Kamakawi: lelea
> Kelenala: waj
> Sathir: Sawa
> Njaama: aa
> Epiq: ilj@
> Gweydr: hiZa
> Sheli: faj
>
> Also, if anybody has any tips on how to relate language creation
> to typology, I'd be much appreciative!  So far I've got a section on
> the history of language creation (necessary), a section on how to
> type created languages (a possible interesting on-topic discussion,
> actually), what created languages can tell us about what people
> think about language, and what created languages can do that
> natural languages can't.
>
> -David
> *******************************************************************
> "sunly eleSkarez ygralleryf ydZZixelje je ox2mejze."
> "No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
>
> -Jim Morrison
>
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>
Jouevyaix Cherani:
fire: llats XSAMPA:/K\at_s/
water*: üt   XSAMPA:/ut/

*This is the most generic word for water as a material. I think it was
originally the word for rain water. I can't find my notes on the roots for
brine/seawater and swamp water. Shayanans are semi-aquatic and also have lots
of words for different kinds of water as environments. Many of these have
independent roots (like mizu and yuu in Japanese). Consider hill, knoll,
valley, mountain.
--
Elyse Grasso

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