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Re: Vocab #10

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Friday, May 31, 2002, 19:28
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 -- Real Programmers use "cat > a.out".