Re: You have a word for it?

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:00:57 -0800 Aquamarine Demon
<aquamarine_demon@...> writes:
> I use it either way, since I only have one sibling. But yeah, most
> people
> probably don't use sibling in the singular as often as plural.
> On a "side" note: in my conlang...
> sibling: zalo
> brother: zaloyo
> sister: zaloyi
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Hmm... Rokbeigalmki also uses the vowels _o_ and _i_ to represent
masculine and feminine:
ro.ijh /ro?iZ/ = sibling
o-ro.ijh /?oro?iZ/ = brother
i-ro.ijh /?iro?iZ/ = sister

also, IZ 'she' and OZ 'he'.  The prefix for feminine used to be _a-_ but
then i realized that i was just giving in to needless interference from
natlangs like Spanish and Hebrew, and i changed it to be more symmetrical
and fit the pronoun system better.

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> The Aquamarine Demon

-Stephen (Steg)
 "maybe thou shalt find valimar"
     ~ namárië by j.r.r. tolkien

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