Re: Poll: Basic vocabulary test of an IAL

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

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