Re: Poll: Basic vocabulary test of an IAL
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 22, 2002, 15:59 |
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 09:25:42AM -0500, Carlos Thompson wrote:
[snip]
> 1. arboro
Harbour? :-P [arboro]
> 2. avio
Air [avio]
> 3. akua
Water? [akua] or [&kua]
> 4. beber
No idea.
> 5. ben
Son? (from Hebrew "ben"?) [b&n]
> 6. blanki
Blank? [bl&Nki]
> 7. boni
Bonnet? [bAni]
> 8. chadi
> 9. choko
No idea.
> 10. dento
Tooth? [d&nto]
> 11. diter
No idea.
> 12. ekino
Hmm. This sounds like an Ebisedian masculine name, Ekino. :-P
[?&"kino]
> 13. elfano
> 14. fema
> 15. fogo
> 16. fridi
> 17. fuli
> 18. fumo
> 19. gol
No idea.
> 20. grandi
Grandeur? [grandi]
> 21. idea
Idea? :-P [aidj@]
> 22. idioma
Idiom, I presume. [idi@ma]
Or it could be an Ebisedian neuter name in the instrumental case:
[?idi"?oma]. ("Diomi", whatever that means.) :-P
> 23. indi
Race car! (Indy!) [indi]
> 24. jako
M. Jackson? :-P [dZ&ko]
> 25. jorno
Journal? [dZArno]
> 26. kana
Umm... as in the Japanese katakana? :-P [kana]
> 27. kapito
Not sure... sounds a bit like "kaput" :-P [ka"pito]
> 28. kata
"To say". From malay _kata_, "speak". [kata]
> 29. kibo
> 30. koner
No idea.
> 31. korno
Corny! :-P [kArno]
> 32. kuna
No idea.
> 33. largi
Big, fat, and slow. ("Large" and "largo" (It.)?) [largi]
> 34. libero
Freedom? [lib&ro]
> 35. lingua
Ok this one is obvious. "Language" :-) [liNgwa]
> 36. luna
Elder sister. (Korean ["luna]) [luna]
> 37. manjer
No idea. Sounds like a Malay name.
> 38. mano
Monkey! ("Manu", from Tarzan, anyone? :-P) [mano]
> 39. monto
No idea.
> 40. morter
Martyr? [mArt@r]
> 41. negi
Irritable? (Naggy and scoldy!) [n&gi]
> 42. nokto
Poisonous (noxious!) [nAkto]
> 43. novi
Supernova? [novi]
> 44. oksiter
No idea. An orc's babysitter perhaps? :-P [Aksit@r]
> 45. orsa
Sounds like "bear". [Arsa]
> 46. pedo
Peter? ("pedro!") [p&do]
> 47. petro
Gasoline. [p&tro]
> 48. pikoli
Piccolo? [pikoli]
> 49. pisco
No idea. A peaceful disco? [pisko]
> 50. pluvia
No idea.
> 51. preti
"Pretty". [pr@ti]
> 52. quarko
Clown/joker? (quacko!) [kwarko]
> 53. rondi
Hmm. Many rondo's? [rondi]
> 54. rosi
Rosy? [rosi]
> 55. saper
As in Sapir-Whorf? [s&pIr]
> 56. siter
zither? [sit@r]
> 57. sol
Hmm. Floor-cleaning detergent? (Pinesol!) [sAl]
> 58. tela
Bank teller? [t&la]
> 59. telo
Telephone? [t&lo]
> 60. tino
Tiny? [tino]
> 61. uni
University! [juni]
> 62. uso
"Please". (Yeah! an Ebisedian word!) [?u"so]
> 63. verdi
As in, the composer of Verdi's Requiem? [v@rdi]
> 64. vider
No idea. An invading spider? [vajd@r]
> 65. viro
Hmm. Virtue? [viro]
> 66. voler
No idea.
> 67. watt
watt mite diss meen? :-P
> 68. yanki
An American! [j&Nki]
> 69. zebra
A zebra, I suppose. [zibra] :-P
> 70. Chlewey
Chloe?? [k_hlowi]
> 71. dij Schdzjarvk
No idea.
> 72. atenter
A camper? (as in, tent!) [&t&nt@r]
> 73. broma
Sounds like the instrumental case of "bromine" in Ebisedian. Hmm, this can
be quite potent. :-P
> 74. cali
Curry? (Hokkien [ka"li]) [kali]
> 75. doter
Umm... a lover? ("dote"?) [dot@r]
> 76. emino
Another Ebisedian name, Emino! [?&"mino]
Who might it be?
> 77. fabuli
Fat bully? :-P [fabuli]
> 78. gruta
> 79. helada
No idea.
> 80. imeilo
A neuter Ebisedian name! Who is "Meilo" anyway? [?im&?ilo]
> 81. justa
Justa sekond here, OK? :-P [jast@]
> 82. kilo
Sounds like an Ebisedian back-referencing particle in radix form. No, I
don't know what it means. :-P [kilo]
> 83. lando
Lazy! (Mandarin _lan3 tuo4_) [lan"do]
> 84. mika
"But" (Ebisedian conjunction _miKa'_?) [mi"k_ha]
> 85. nu
I know this! Ebisedian receptive subordinating particle! [nu]
> 86. oper
Opal?
> 87. parto
As in, part of one of Bach's Partita? [parto]
> 88. quid
A squid with suckers removed. :-P [kwid]
> 89. rolo
Watch! (Rolex, anyone?) [rolo]
> 90. sapo
"Sappy"? [sapo]
> 91. turo
No idea.
> 92. uro
"This". (Ebisedian prepositional demonstrative!) [?ur`o]
> 93. valer
Valour? [va"lir`]
> 94. wiski
A wise russian? ;-) (No offense intended :-P) [wiski]
> 95. xero
A Xerox copier after a frustrated user axed it? :-P [kziro]
> 96. yrida
A *feminine* Ebisedian name! Who is "Yridi"? Sounds like a lovely name for
another Ebisedian novel. :-P [Hyri"da]
> 97. zambo
A very big zombie? (Jumbo zombie!) [zambo]
Very interesting exercise. I see that you've taken the pains to not only
decipher but *include* many Ebisedian words, so that the Ebisedi would be
comfortable speaking your IAL. They want me to inform you that they are
very grateful for this! :-)
gii'j3l0 kww'k3 3jum33' tu ngyy'jh 3bach3' chi'du. tumu.
["gi:dZ@lA "k8:k@\ ?@\dZu"m@\: tu "Ny:Z ?@\ba"S@\ "Sidu tumu]
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