Re: conculture; vocabulary

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> Another way is making a few other languages and importing their lexemes
> as loan-words in your first language
Or even just dialects.  For instance, the word for "black" in Standard
Watakass=ED is _dyadtyu'a_ (/djadZua/).  This comes from a dialect where
the old /dj/ became /dZ/, thus Old Watakass=ED _dihadihu'qa_ (diha- =3D
color of, dihu'qa =3D ash) became /dZa'dZua/, or _dtyadtyu'a_, as it woul=
d
be transcribed, but the association with the (non-productive) prefix
dya- (color) turned the first /dZ/ into /dj/.  Had that original word
survived into Standard Watakass=ED, it would be _dyadyu'a_ (/djadjua/), i=
n
fact, _dyu'a_ is the word for "by-product or side-effect", descended
from _dihu'qa_, but with a semantic extension, from by-product of fire
to any by-product.

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