Sop and gol (was: Re: Poll: Basic vocabulary test of an IAL)

Bnathyuw wrote:

> > > _Gol_ means "bottom" in Ilaini? In Tairezazh it
> > > means "head" ...
> > Heh. But in Yivrian it means "foot."
> in bac, the word |sop| means 'foot'. what does it mean
> in other languages ?
Cein doesn't have initial |g| except when mutated, and it
doesn't have final |l|, only |ll|, so the closest to |gol|
we get is |coll| which means 'cloak'.

The famous first line in the poem "Rhats·a·ddel" is |coll o
fenel| "heaven's cloak". If we turn that around we get
|menel o goll| "cloak's heaven" (which doesn't make much
sense, at least not in that poem).

No |sop| so far, unfortunately. No |sop| or |gol| in Seimi
or Rinya either.

||| daniel

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