Re: Vocab #10

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:19:32PM -0400, Aidan Grey wrote:
>   Brought to you by a (architecture), d (directions), and subordinate clauses.
Alright, that sounds like something closer to my conlang's scant
vocabulary :-) I'll try to do as many as possible.

[snip]
>   1. house
juli'r  [dZulIr]
        Regular neuter noun. Plural: 3julii'r. Nullar: my'julir.

>   2. wall
tacwi'  [tacu".i]
        Regular neuter noun. Plural: 3tacwi'. Nullar: my'taci.
        "Wall", or "deflecting barrier".

>   3. door
jyy'i   [dZy:.i]
        Irregular neuter noun. Plural: 3jyy'i. Nullar: my'jyi.
        "Door", "entrance", "portal" (as in, a teleportation portal).
        Also a technical term for naturally occurring non-destructive
        whirlpool-like phenomena with teleporting capabilities.

>   4. threshhold
Hmm.. skipping this one. (This one needs a more worked out system of
spatial coordinates... not yet, unfortunately. :-/)

>   5. window
rota'ci [rotatSi]
        Regular neuter noun, Plural: 3rotac3i'. Nullar: my'rotaci.
        Derived from _tacwi'_: the ro- prefix has the sense of "moving",
        or "moving through". Hence, the see-through part of a wall, or
        that which allows passage (of light) through the wall.

>   6. lock (v or n)
Hmm, no such concept yet. I'm a bit hesitant to coin a word for this one
-- I'd prefer an equivalent (or not-so-equivalent) term to develop from
the conculture/con-universe instead.

>   7. room
jhi'li  [Zili]
        "Room", or "small hut". Plural: 3jhilii'.
        A _juli'r_ is thought to be composed of multiple _3jhilii'_.

>   8. bathroom
Hmm. No words for this yet. But the Ebisedi designate two separate places
for the functions of the bathroom: one is strictly for washing, the other
is strictly for dumping. I'm coining new words for these...

l3r3jhi'li      [l@r@Zili]
        Regular neuter noun. Plural: 3l3r3jhilii'. Nullar: my'l3r3jhili.
        Compound of _l3rii'_ "flow", "river", and _jhi'li_ "room". Hence,
        the room of waters; which would be our washroom.

vy'jhili        [ByZili]
        Regular neuter noun. Plural: 3vyjhi'li. Nullar: my'vyjhili.
        Compound of _vyy'i_ and _jhi'li_. _vyy'i_ refers to a destructive
        phenomenon in Ferochromon which is used by the Ebisedi as a means
        of garbage disposal. Hence, it has come to have connotations of
        refuse, waste, garbage. So, _vy'jhili_ would be the "refuse room",
        where garbage and other wastes are collected for disposal into a
        nearby _vyy'i_.

>   9. corner
Skipping this one...

>   10. ceiling
Coining a new word for this one:

Kita'ci [k^hi.ta.tSi]
        Regular neuter noun. Plural: 3Kitacii'. Nullar: my'Kitaci.
        Derived from _Kii'_ (up) and _tacwi'_ (wall). The ceiling is the
        "above-wall". :-)


>   My house has a door that faces north, but windows that face east and west.
Hmm. The Ebisedi have a tri-directional system of directions rather than
our familiar N/S/E/W. Coining new words for these directions:
katui'  [katu.i]        "forwards", "in front" ("north")
cutui'  [tSutu.i]       "toward the left" (in our terms, southwest)
rotui'  [rotu.i]        "toward the right" (in our terms, southeast)

So, the sentence would be rendered as:

ni ebu' d3 juli'r. jww3' katuo' kili ke, kir3ta'c3 cutuo' kili ce,
cur3ta'c3 rotuo' kili re.
"My house: [there is] a door on the front of it, [one] window to the left
of it, [another] window to the right of it."

ni      locative subordinating particle
ebu'    masculine singular receptive 1st person pronoun
d3      conveyant subordinate clause terminator
juli'r  singular locative of _juli'r_ "house"
jww3'   singular conveyant of _jyy'i_ "door", "portal"
katuo'  prepositional form of _katui'_ "front", "north"
kili    locative back-referencing locative particle (refers to _juli'r_
        in all three occurrences)
ke      1st trichotomial correlative particle
kir3ta'c3
        ki-     1st associative prefix ("the first", "the former")
        r3ta'c3 singular conveyant of _rota'ci_ "window"
cutuo'  prepositional form of _cutui'_ "to the right", "southwest"
ce      2nd trichotomial correlative particle
cur3ta'c3
        cu-     2nd associative prefix ("the second", "the other", "another")
        r3ta'c3 singular conveyant of _rota'ci_.
rotuo'  prepositional form of _rotui'_ "to the left", "southeast".
re      3rd trichotomial correlative particle.


This one is extremely idiomatic Ebisedian. I'm not going to explain the
parse, which is already long enough... it may take 3 full pages :-)

>   That unusual house has 6 walls per room.
Skipping... don't have a word for "unusual" yet, no numbers yet, and no
construct for "each" yet. Too much to invent on the spot. :-/

>   The threshhold is where the door is.
No word for "threshold" yet; for convenience, I'm substituting:
        "The front of the house is where the door is".

katuo' juli'r jww3'.
"In front of the house [is] the door."

katuo'  - prepositional form of _katui'_ "front", or "north"
juli'r  - singular locative of _juli'r_ "house"
jww3'   - singular conveyant of _jyy'i_ "door", "portal"

>   There aren't any locks on the doors, not even on the bathroom door.
Skipping... but I can't resist showing off my conlang's nullar number, :-)
so I'm liberally adapting the sentence to:

mw'jw3 juli'r Ke, mw'jw3 3jhi'li ve.
"There are no doors in the house; there aren't [even] doors in the rooms."

mw'jw3  - nullar conveyant of _jyy'i_ "door"
juli'r  - singular locative of _juli'r_ "house"
Ke      - 1st dichotomial correlative particle
3jhi'li - plural locative of _jhi'li_ "room"
ve      - 2nd dichotomial correlative particle


>   In the southern corner, against the ceiling, there are many cobwebs.
Hmm. No such thing as cobwebs in Ferochromon :-) Not the kind that would
be called "cobwebs", anyway. But I'm liberally adapting the sentence to:

3kac33' ili'ro ni cutui' d3 rota'ci.
"Many flowers are around the window which is to the southwest."
Literally, "many flowers in the vicinity of the at-southwest window".


Hope people don't mind my liberal adaptations to simplify the exercise!
;-) Argh, this post turned out to be 182 lines heavy. I really should cut
down the verbose glosses next time :-(


T

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