Re: Worthwhile Engelang Goal

David J. Peterson wrote:
 >
 > Though, another idea I'm having too late is showing where a given
 > conlanger creates their *own* sound symbolism.

[snip]

 > All these words have to do with brightness or whiteness, and
 > all have some sort of palatal in them (and a lot have that /tw/
 > phone).
 >
 > Anyway, have any others done things like this?  Or perhaps a
 > better question: Those who have done this (intentionally or
 > unintentionally), would you care to share?  The lecture's done
 > with, but it'd still be cool to hear about.

Calénnawn uses |h|+vowel for negative words like nothing, no one,
nowhere, never, etc. e.g.

hort	zero
hið	none of
hi	no
hes	not
huy-	the opposite of
hépla	not any more; not yet (depending on other words)

and compounds like:

bey hort    never
fond hort   nothing
cas hort    no one


René

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