Re: Vocab #5

Aidan Grey comunu:

>1. coffee / bitter drink / culturally distinctive drink
Here they are in Dublex (http://www.langmaker.com/dublexnav.htm)...

caf: coffee -- the beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee seeds
[From Italian 'caffe' (itself from Arabic /kahwa/), which has been borrowed
into most languages; see http://www.langmaker.com/x.htm#caf ]


>2. tea / herbal tea
caflet: tea -- a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
[coffee+diminutive]


>3. steep / brew
licsaditsu:  steep, infuse -- sit or let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor
or to cleanse
[liquid+sit+{verb}]


>4. pastry / biscuits / cookies
sucarsanj: cookie, biscuit -- any of various small flat sweet cakes
[sweet+bread]


>5. milk
malact: milk -- white nutritious liquid secreted by animals and used as food
by human beings
[Blend of Russian /malako/, English /milk/ and Indo-European *g(a)lakt-,
extant in Greek 'galakt-' (whence English 'galaxy'), Latin 'lact-' (whence
English 'lactose', 'lactate', etc., Spanish 'leche', Italian 'latte',
Esperanto 'lakto', et al).]


>6. bitter
cafmucsens: bitter, bitterness -- the taste experience when quinine or
coffee is taken into the mouth
[coffee+mouth+sense]
(WordNet's definition!  Most of my definitions are adapted from WordNet.
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn1.7.1)


>7. sweet
sucarmucsens: sweet, sweetness, sugariness -- the taste experience when
sugar dissolves in the mouth
[sugar+mouth+sense]


>8. wired / the feeling obtained after drinking 43 cups of coffee
cafsenta: wired, jittery -- very stimulated or excited, as from a stimulant
or a rush of adrenaline.
[coffee+emotion+{adj.}]


>9. mellow / calm / soothing (of music)
nontvelsent: easygoing, laid-back, mellow -- unhurried and relaxed feeling
[not+fast+emotion]


>10. street vendor / coffee house / tea bar / the culturally appropriate
>place to buy a cup of tea or coffee
cafvend: cafe, coffeehouse, coffee shop, coffee bar -- a small restaurant
where drinks and snacks are sold
[coffee+sale]


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Jeffrey
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