Re: Lexeme Request: Water and Fire
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 27, 2005, 16:42 |
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* David J. Peterson said on 2005-05-27 08:27:30 +0200
> 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.
In Taruven:
the most generic word for water is "fal"
the most generic word for fire is "yárra", that is: y-aacute-rra
The prototypical yárra is a bonfirey thing.
> 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.
Could you start a new thread on this perhaps?
t.
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