Re: Weekly Vocab 29

My first contribution to these things. As most of this vocab is being
made up on the spot, I won't do all of the example sentences.

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Christopher Wright wrote:

> 1. to calculate
upwaiercen /upw&:rk@n/ (vpvaiercen)
lit. to work up. Usually followed by _to_, 'to'.

> As a magistrate, I must calculate the amount of surplus food the area creates.
forfat   em if doiemair iec to baren med  maite    laeften   aftre upwaierce.
for-that am I  deem+er  I   to bore  with food+DAT left+DAT  over  calculate+1stPS.

> 2. waste
woost (n.)  /wo:st/
woiesten (v.) /w2:st@n/
laeft aftre  /la:ft aftr@/
(lit. left after.)

> Food waste is dreadfully common.
woiestinde mait     ist uiber    uft
wasting    food+NOM is  very+NOM common+NOM

> 4. famine
hungr- /hungr@/ (stem)
honer /hon@r/ (nom.)
lit. hunger.

> Only these laws stave off famine.
Aenoiaht faes ?? lettef hongre.

-- I need an idea for law. Anyone have one? (West Germanic conlang at
the same time as Old English.)

> 10. day
deg- /deg/ (stem)
daj /daj/ (nom.)

(Wow, one I already had!)

--
Tristan.

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