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Re: Lexeme Request: Water and Fire

From:René Uittenbogaard <ruittenb@...>
Date:Saturday, May 28, 2005, 7:17
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.
in Calénnawn: water: qúba /'quba/ fire : smig /smig/ Normally both used with the non-countable article: h /@/ (h qúba = water). The definite article (o /o/) is used to indicate a body/portion/instance of water: o qúba = the/this water. René