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Re: SURVEY: Idiomatic Expressions In Your ConLang Or ConCulture

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 22, 2005, 3:03
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "Ph.D." <phil@P...> wrote:

>Nice set of compounds.
Thank you.
>The word for "glass" given here has the form of a concrete >noun related to a stem. Is it from "ÿêêla"? meaning what? >(or is it just a coincidence?)
I am trying to make all dictionary entries verbs, but I haven't succeeded yet. It's difficult to discern what verb might be the base for _elephant_! _ÿêêlnon_ provides some good examples of Senjecan compounding. The verb base is, as you have discerned, _ÿêêlna_ which means "to glass, to glaze" and, connotatively, "to ice, to glaze [pastry]." BTW, the new orthography writes "ÿ" as a barred-h, which won't print here. It represents j_0. Because of the double consonants "ln," an epenthetic ë (E) must be inserted before a base noun that begins with a consonant. Some other compounds of _ÿêêlnon_ are: ÿééln-ëlêmon (shard) = glass shard. -ëµêlon (wool) = glass wool. -ëpââlton (wide thing) = glass pane. -ësîîmon (knife) = glass cutter. -ëtêmun (smith) = glass blower. -ëjêgon (ice) = thin coating of ice on rock. -ëtââla (become) = vitrify (both trans. & intrans.). -ôlµon (paper) = glass-paper, glassine. -un (agentive suffix on verb) = glassmaker. -ëlon (diminutive suffix) - microscope slide. Adjectives would be: ÿêêl-nënin - glasslike -nin - glassy, vitreous. -nïônin - made of glass. Obviously, not all of these words are original to the vocabulary, but were created as needed. Charlie http://wiki.frath.net:caeruleancentaur

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