Re: Lexeme Request: Water and Fire

On May 27, 2005, at 01:27, 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:
>
In Orelynna:
Fire: hárhyleþ  roughly /'xa4.xi.leT/
Water: olāneþ   /ol'a:n.eT/
     (-eþ is the inanimate noun class suffix)

In emíndahken:
Fire: löhahéé  /l8.xa.xe:_H/  (last syllable long and high tone, not
sure I
transcribed it correctly)
Water: lömaq  /l8.maq/  (both syllables are low tone, slight emph. on
first)
     (lö- is the abstract, impermanent noun class prefix)


James W.