Re: Herbs and Spices

staving Roger Mills:
>There are several in Kash, fewer in Gwr and
>Prevli. Among the Kash (analogues, of course):
>
>tandom ~tatom ~cloves
>pirit ~peppercorns (several varieties from hot to mild)
>uku a food grain ~rice or maybe ~millet
>coloçe ~soybean; sucoloç ~soy sauce/nam pla; penjo ~tofu
>yara ~allium spp. (onion, garlic etc)
>petip ~garlic
>sukekevu ~honey (produced by the kekevu [~bee] insect)
>moco ~capsicum spp. (bell peppers, jalapeños et al., hot to mild)
>otatap ~cucurbita spp. (melons, cukes etc.)
>umalurit an oil derived from the alurit tree's
>seed pods, very bitter, sometimes used (just a
>drop or two) for flavoring, otherwise it's a fuel and lubricant........
>krende ~currants
>ekaceyak 'sour leaf' (dried) used to make a
>tea-- it has another name in Prevli, where it's
>native-- they eat the fresh leaves (~mustard
>greens?) but they deteriorate quickly and aren't exported
>tisip pambara 'black berry' ~coffee bean
>susambara ('black sauce') for coloring and flavoring, perhaps from ~squid ink.
>kreles, kreleçu, kreçu weeds in general
>trufa grass (cultivated, lawn type)
>okam wild grass spp.
>yosu ~taro (Prevli yotsu; they eat it boiled in
>chunks or mashed (~poi) and dilute it to a mush
>(lilis) for baby-food) A curiosity amongst the Kash...
>vondo (< Prevli) a plant poison for arrows; used
>medically as a muscle relaxant
>vunja a plant-root extract to stun fish (Prevli vunzå)
>kundamakra ~LSD ?? (Prevli gunzå magra)
>psychotropic plant extract, used by Lañ-lañ
>shamans to induce trance/hallucinations; some
>Kash play around with it too...though it's hard
>to get. The Kash word folk-etymoligizes to "laugh marrow/essence" ha ha
I managed to think up a few for Khangaþyagon last
night. Challenging, because I feel I have to
pretend I'm a synaesthete to come up with words
that fit the spices. You should have seen me in
my kitchen, sniffing at jars and trying to match
the spices to the words - I'd think of a word,
wonder if it was right for a spice, sniff a jar,
and then say, "No, not that, what about..." before trying another one.
So far I've got
kivek - pepper
khorrkirf - mustard (fire seed)
ustirnarb - horseradish (oath root)
olven - honey
assak - coriander
œsal - cinnamon
hiris - basil
tavan - cumin
ifet - mint
akhnel - ginger
zurvin - thyme
vitsen - cloves
ulsir - saffron

Pete