Re: Using word generators (was Re: Semitic root word list?)

Patrick Littell wrote:

> /sr\/ is fine with me, although I can think of only one other word in
> which I have it: [sr\IndZ].  You know, what you inject yourself with.
"Srebrenica" has it. I don't remember ever hearing that with /Sr/. But
Wikipedia says "Sri Lanka" is from ශ්‍රී ලංකා śrī lankā, so if that "ś" is
something like [s\] (anyone know Sinhalese?), it could go either way in
an English borrowing.

Since I've been letting words into Minza from almost anywhere, I might
eventually end up with quite a few rare clusters. But as it is, it looks
like the least common ones are in words originally from Lindiga (the
precursor of Minza)! Still, I have some rare clusters from other
sources, like /zboři/ from Alzetjan "zvårdas" (after dissimilation
changing /zv/ to /zb/).

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