Weekly Vocab 8 (1-6)

> 1. kilogram (appropriate unit of weight or mass for you and your
> conculture)
> I need a kilogram of flour.
Dal abem ci addid pddosco.
Must GEN-me the addid flour-pl.

I got a lot out of this vocab entry.  I sat down and worked
out my system of weights, which is based on the addid:
the weight of the amount of flour a grown woman can hold
in two hands cupped together.  Of course, people will use
women with small or large hands  to measure depending
on what benefits them, but that's enterprising for you.  ;-)

> 2. bread
> It's for the bread that I must serve to my cousin.
locgnmy

Ci elocgnmy, cioa debil em ciu en cgalal.
The DAT-bread, the must I the sister eat.

The missing verb and the structure means I
must make the sister eat the bread, or serve it
to her.  I said sister because I haven't worked out
my system of (more than immediate) family yet.
It's coming, give it time.

> 3. fever
> He has a fever.
aci ci ddos gddyct - he has a hot head
GEN-the.masc the head hot

> 4. delirious
> He is delirious with it, hallucinating that I am a (conculturally
> appropriate monster).
Cioa empciula: em cil espen.
He hallucinates: I am a two-tailed-cat.

The two-tailed cat gives bad luck.  Delirious is
not an adjective, but a stative verb, which is also
used for to hallucinate in this sence, so I did not
repeat it for aesthetic reasons.

> 5. medicine
> The illness requires expensive medicine.
Dal asypten cgol gecgtad pads.
Must GEN-illness the.pl medicine.pl much.

(no word for expensive)

> 6. witch / quack / healer / shaman
> The witch says that her cure only requires a few yams.
stendytdgam - faith healer.  This is the normal kind,
so usually "dytdgam" is just fine.

Li stendytdgam sacatd: "Dal adytdgon abem cgol podo poaddgod."
The faith-healer says: "Must GEN-heal-ing GEN-me the some po

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