Re: Herbs and Spices

I have only one conlang in which I have ever thought about inventing the
words for terrestrial flora and fauna (most other conlangs of mine are
spoken in different worlds/on other planets). I never carried it through,
though, but I do remember thinking of making stinging nettles "immortal
weed", for the very simple reason that I was trying to eradicate the nettles
in our garden at the time (and failing). Grass would be something like
"suffocating plant", because the only patches without weeds were those where
the grass had grown much too long. I had many more like this, but I didn't
write anything down. Maybe working in a completely untended garden could
give you more ideas... :-)

Greets
David


2009/2/18 Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>

> Reading Sally Caves' book about Lingua Ignota recently has left me wanting
> to create more vocabulary for Khangaþyagon - indeed last week I jotted down
> 3 pages of new words in a notebook, mostly to do with the body. Next thing I
> want to tackle is herbs and spices. However, I'm finding that one tough, as
> I feel that the words should be particularly evocative. So far, I've got
> "kivek" for "pepper", which I'm fairly happy with, and I think that mustard
> and horseradish should analyse as "fire-seed" and "oath-root" respectively
> (the latter from an ancient custom of eating a sliver of horseradish to
> purge the mouth of falsehood before testifying). What words for herbs and
> spices does everybody have in their conlangs?
>
> Pete
>


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