Re: Lexeme Request: Water and Fire

Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

>Hallo!
>
>On Fri, 27 May 2005 20:44:21 -0400,
># 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
>
> > In Vbazi:
> >
> > njele     +  biwliw   =>  njelebiwliw = water
> > beggining +  liquid
> >
> > so "njelebiwliw" is like the scientist version of the word but it is
> > contracted in "lebi" in normal use
>
>Does your language really not have a basic, underived word for "water"?
>That seems bizarre to me.  "Water" is a very basic concept, much more
>basic than the more general "liquid".
>
Yeah... that's true..

I want so much to derive some words from others (to give a natural feeling)
that I do it for words that should not be derivated

But, to be honest, I had invented a word "lebi" for water without deriving
it, and after, felt that I should derive it, so I found two words that could
seem to have form it and said it was the origin...


Thanks. I'll follow the advise you didn't exactly give to me and make for
"water" and "fire" the basic words they deserve


OK let me change what I said in my other mail: I'll get back to my first
ideas for these words

In Vbazi

water: lebi (still, but not created with a sort of derivation and there's no
other form)

fire: kaze (and not gaidzdyl or gajyl)
(with burn = -kaz-, that will take the active marker in the sense of burning
something and will stay like this when the subject is on fire)


I'll find other things to derive words into.

- Max