Re: LeGuin (was: a 12th century conlang)

Sally Caves wrote:
> Let's see a list from some of you with at least twenty items
> in each of these categories:
>
>     1.  God, gods, angels, saints, and demons.
I don't have nearly enough for 20.  The Faithful One's ancestors had
plenty of gods, but tiNakasu'ni'sa' changed that, she brought monotheism
to them.  So, here's my very short list:
tiDika'u' (the Goddess), tiNakasu'ni'sa' (the Prophetess, literally
"Teacher of the People"), suka'u'pa' (saint, roughly), that's all I
know.  They have various spirits and the like, but I don't know enough
about those beliefs.

>     2.  Human family relationships.
Ahem, HUMAN?  Are you prejudiced against non-Humans?  tiKyumani'sta!
Anyhoo:
tinani' (mother), nlannnani' (father, a scientific term), slika'n
(offspring), tlika'n (daughter), nlika'n (son), sutassa' (sibling),
titassa' (sister), natassa' (brother).  This is all I know.

>     3.  The parts of the body.
sutluni' (hand, agrees with possessor, thus titluni' for a woman's hand,
natluni' for a man's hand), suklu' (foot, agrees), piklanu' (body),
wanalassi' (eye, lit. "that which sees"), sudha'misu (head, agrees),
wanapitu' (rib), that's it for now

>     4.  Diseases of the body.
qassi'ya'sa (blind, adj.)

>     5.  Names relating to Church or Religion
watladda' (evil), watya'i'ya` (faith), pibitta' (goodness), wadya'ziga
(heaven - probably soon to be eliminated), pibidika'u' (heaven, probably
soon to be only term; bi- = place of, tiDika'u' = the Goddess), I guess
wa-/p-lakazza' (mercy), wuppa'gla'bau (perfect love), walasta`
(prophecy), wasaga` (prophecy), sunalasta` (prophet), wa-/pi-tlau'tta'
(righteousness), tla'u'ta' (righteous), wali' (ritual; homophonous with
"this", incidentally), wadhuzza' (sin), watla' (soul), wapaka'sdiba
(temptation, probably soon to be eliminated).  16, not quite 20.

Several of these were borrowed from Tarni'f during a period when I
thought that Tarni'f had had a long influence on Watya'i'sa.  But I now
realize that they had no contact with the Nif until over a thousand
years after the dialect I'm describing existed.

>     6.  Names relating to Secular Hierarchies, the parts of Government
tigladi'z (a leader of some sort, head of the Council of Elders, I
think), tinuya`n (judge), pinasabit'a (law, literally, "that which is
good"), sukinasga' (leader, related to saga', to speak), sunassika'
(elder), pikuta'i'la' (respect),

>     7.  The parts of trade and human craft.
There's that discriminatory "human" again!  Looks like I'll have to make
_sa'li_ an adjective for "prejudiced against Natives".  Just kidding!

slamya'dha' (fish-herder), pitadikka' (sale), pinimya'dhdha' (purchase),
ni'mya'dhi (buy), tadi'ki' (sell)

>     8.  Days, months, seasons of the year, hours, minutes.
walaza' (day), wayaza' (time, period), wini'ka' (time, point), nakatu'
(time, point), watya'ni' (year)

>     9.  The Quotidian things of life: clothing, houses, farming. AND
>   10.  The parts of the Natural World.
These two seem to be related closely, to me, so I'll combine them
(especially with words like "animal", that can be farming or natural
world)

ki-/la-nakla'i' (animal, literally "that which lives"; gender depends on
species), wili'bi (bread), wanala'u' (food, "that which is eaten"),
wana'u' (fruit), wasani' (home), pitani' (inhabited place), walita'li'
(pasture), wagwa'di (plant), pina'zdi (table), wabizi' (tree), wani'pa
(water), wanaqaki' (wind),

> Wearily and again, always again, migrainously, Sally
"migrainously", nice coining!

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