Re: irregularities

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:45:32 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > I don't understand how one could think of the "day sky" and
> > the "night sky" as two different skies, since the passage from one
> to another
> > is slow and can be seen  (stars appear in the sky well before the
> sky is really
> > dark). Yet it's well accepted, through reconstruction evidence
> (and quite
> > strong for those two words) and maybe other evidence, that the
> Proto-Indo-
> > European people thought there was two skies turning around the
> planet, one for
> > the day and one for the night.
> Oooh, that's inspired me!  The word _uabiikadis_ (literally "place
> of
> the suns"), which I had defined as "sky" shall henceforth mean,
> depending on context, either "sky" or "day sky", and a new word,
> _uabiila_ (literally "place of the star(s)") shall mean "night
> sky".
> :-)
-

One of the Rokbeigalmki words for "night" is _urt_, which means
"firetime".  I got this idea when learning Talmud a few years ago...
there's a discussion that goes on for 3 pages (iirc) as to the meaning of
the phrase _or la'arba`ah asar_, "light of the 14th", and figuring out
that it means "the evening which begins the 14th" of the month;  i
thought that it would make more sense and go a lot quicker (without
having to search through who knows how many biblical allusions) if they
had just re-read the word Alef-Vav-Reish as _ur_ "fire" instead of _or_
"light", and of course you need fire to see at night.  So i borrowed both
the mutilated _or_/_ur_ concept and the word _ur_ itself into
Rokbeigalmki.
Rokbeigalmki has many specific time words... my (and the Rokbeigalm's)
favorite times of day are _rouwit_ (early morning) and _rougant_
(midnight), although i'm usually too tired to be up then :-) .


-Stephen (Steg)
 "cup half full, cup half empty -
  show me the f---ing cup!"
     ~ "no messiah" by lazy i