Re: SURVEY: Idiomatic Expressions In Your ConLang Or ConCulture

--- 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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