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Re: Poll: Basic vocabulary test of an IAL

From:Irina Rempt <irina@...>
Date:Friday, August 23, 2002, 9:12
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 09:25:42AM -0500, Carlos Thompson wrote:
[snip]

> 1. arboro - tree > 2. avio - airplane > 3. akua - water > 4. beber - to drink > 5. ben - good > 6. blanki - white, blank > 7. boni - good > 8. chadi > 9. choko - chocolate > 10. dento - tooth > 11. diter - to say > 12. ekino - horse > 13. elfano - elephant > 14. fema - woman > 15. fogo - fog > 16. fridi - cold > 17. fuli - foolish > 18. fumo - smoke > 19. gol (now that *is* an Ilaini word, but it probably doesn't mean
"bottom")
> 20. grandi - great > 21. idea - idea > 22. idioma - idiom > 23. indi - Indian > 24. jako (Church Slavonic for "because" which completely blocks all
other thinking about it) - probably "jacket"
> 25. jorno - day > 26. kana > 27. kapito - understand > 28. kata - cat > 29. kibo - chicken > 30. koner > 31. korno - kernel, center > 32. kuna - pig > 33. largi - large, wide > 34. libero - free > 35. lingua - language, tongue > 36. luna - moon > 37. manjer - to eat > 38. mano - hand > 39. monto - mountain, to climb > 40. morter - to die > 41. negi - to negate, to say no > 42. nokto - night > 43. novi - new > 44. oksiter > 45. orsa - bear > 46. pedo - foot > 47. petro - stone, rock > 48. pikoli - little, tiny > 49. pisco - fish > 50. pluvia - rain > 51. preti - joy OR pretty > 52. quarko - quark > 53. rondi - round > 54. rosi - pink > 55. saper - to know, to understand > 56. siter - to sit > 57. sol - sun > 58. tela - she, that woman, such a ... (f) > 59. telo - he, that man, such a ... (m) > 60. tino - child > 61. uni - one > 62. uso - use > 63. verdi - green > 64. vider - to see > 65. viro - man > 66. voler - to fly > 67. watt - watt > 68. yanki - someone from the USA > 69. zebra - largish striped herbivorous quadruped > 70. Chlewey - Carlos Thompson > 71. dij Schdzjarvk - the Shark > 72. atenter - to wait > 73. broma - bromide > 74. cali - potassium > 75. doter - to give > 76. emino - eminent > 77. fabuli - story > 78. gruta - grits, hominy > 79. helada - ice cream > 80. imeilo - honey > 81. justa - right, just, precise, accurate > 82. kilo - kilo > 83. lando - country > 84. mika - mica > 85. nu - now > 86. oper - work > 87. parto - part > 88. quid - what > 89. rolo - role, roll > 90. sapo - soap > 91. turo - tower > 92. uro - hour > 93. valer - to be worth > 94. wiski - whisk(e)y > 95. xero - copy > 96. yrida - dry > 97. zambo - black-skinned person
Hey, this was fun! It only worked when I did it without thinking :-) Irina -- Vesta veran, terna puran, farenin. http://www.valdyas.org/irina Beghinnen can ick, volherden will' ick, volbringhen sal ick.