Re: My coming out as a conlanger

Christian Thalmann wrote:
>--- In conlang@y..., Andreas Johansson <and_yo@H...> wrote:
>
> > Having used the word "tangentially" in a high proportion of my recent
>posts,
> > I can't miss the chance to add another, tangentially relavant, Tairezazh
> > slang term; _shodzvan_. Literally, it means "eyeable", in practice,
>"sexy".
>
>Cool.  I'll borrow that for Jovian: |ouglaevel| /Ug"lajv@l/, from
>|ouglare| /ug"la:r/ "to ogle" (fascinating similarity...) from
>|oggul, ougli| /"Agg@l "Ugli/ "eye".
It might interest someone that the Tairezazh word for "eye" is _shodh_
[SOD], from which the verb _shodz_ "to eye, to look at" is formed by adding
the common, but nowadays pretty unproductive, verbalizer -z, with a regular
change [Dz]>[dz]. The ending _-van_ means "-able" in the passive sense, so
_shodzvan_ is "eyeable"="capable of being eyed", whereas the corresponding
active form is _-ren_. _Shodzren_ thus means "capable of eyeing (sth)" -
hardly a formation you need very often, but perfectly correct grammatically.

                                                       Andreas

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