Re: You have a word for it?

Lrahran has a word (yemlun) for "one you are friends with because your
same-sex parents are friends".  SO for a girl it would be another girl who
is your friend becuase your mothers are friends.  For a boy it would be
another boy who is your friend because your fathers are friends.  Lrahran
also has mneal/nyeal the 1st person singular exclusive pronoun and some odd
4th person pronouns.

Here are some other examples from Lrahran:

Mnelrow means "the day exactly half a year away from your birthday".
Mner means "a freind of the same sex".
Mnolu means "to try to help someone who doesn't need it".
Hnengmuwang means "the body as a work of art".
Nehl is "the fragrance after rain".
Njol is "the premonition of inspiration".
Njunj means "the will, the volitional ability OR the thing/action desired".
Njunghlem means "life as a work of art".
Njuhy means "the immense strength of beauty".
Njom means "a meandering river".
Njenolo means both "borrow" and "lend".
Ngon means "the sensation accompanying inspiration".
Hlunjemnar means "mechanical, non-musical sounds produced by an instrument
while in the process of making music".
Hlew means "alliterative verse".
Hluweng means "unplanned art".
Hlemang means "the body as the container for the soul".
Loleng means "the day before yesterday".
Lolen menas "a member of another linguistic group".
Nleleng menas "the day after tomorrow".
Nlonul is the relative pronoun used for ideas.
Rewulem means "the greater one."
Rong means "a withered tree".
Rerene means "to be more".
Hwun means "a friend of the opposite sex".
Wulen means "a flourishing tree".
Wehweyu means "to reapeat back what was heard" but NOT "to say the same
thing over and over".
Wremlul means "the top side of the clouds".
Hyenung means "the absence of authority".
Yehy is the masculine counterpart of Miss -- the title for an unmarried man.
Yenhlumeans "to do one's lessons/homework"
Enelem means "the lesser one".
Uhl means "the beauty of immense strength".

I have alot of these sort of words in Graavgaaln too, but since this post is
already rather long and I've posted many times about Graavgaaln
untranslatables, I shall refrain.

Adamh

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