Re: You have a word for it?

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From: "Ian Maxwell" <Ian_Maxwell@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 2:55 AM
Subject: Re: You have a word for it?


> > Ever picked up a book called 'They Have A Word For It?'
>
> No, but perhaps I should. Sounds like something I'd appreciate.
>
> > I'd
> > like to know what cool untranslatable words are in your languages.
>
> I wouldn't say "untranslatable", since you seem to have translated quite
> well--you just needed to use a phrase instead of one word.
>
> Anyway, I haven't really gotten to work on the vocabulary for my conlang
> yet, but I expect to have a word for "to remember after having forgotten"
> and one for "an acquaintance that one does not particularly like but is
> nonetheless friendly towards".
>
Like this:

"That hollow feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you're doing
something, have done something wrong, and somehow know you can't reverse
it."

The Zitobara use the root "Ntkz" (they have a habit of using consonantal
roots for nouns.) I translate in an intarlinear, to save time and space, as
"anwtokuz", the nominative singular form of the word.