Re: Survey(?) of ConLangs' Calendars and Colors and Kinterms

> Tom Chappell wrote:
>
> What kind of calendar does your conlang and/or conculture include?
>
Pretty much world-wide on Cindu: their day = 25.3 Earth hours (25hrs, 18min,
+ a tad more). The year is 464 days, divided into 16 months of 29 days.
Each month has 4 7-day weeks, plus an unnumbered day in the middle. There
are 3 leap years in every 19-year period.

Whether the Gwr had all this figured out back in the days when they used
their octal system, I don't know.

> What set of monomorphemic color terms does your conlang and/or
> conculture include?
Kash terms:
Black: pambara, White: vanat, Red: çisu (violet çisombara, pink çisumik
[-mik = little]); Yellow: çumo;
most of the others are derived: Grey kucalom < kuni 'color' + çalom
'grey/overcast sky';
Blue: kundele ~tele (kuni + nele 'sky'), Green: kundroçe ~troçe (kuni + roçe
'sea').

kunduhu 'a red, darker than çisu' (kuni +luhu 'blood')
kungoyor 'orange' (kuni + pangoyor 'an orange fruit')
pangorus 'tan' (I'm not sure what this comes from, but seems to be related
to 'orange'....:-(( )
luhu kavatu (blood + Kavatu) a dark red/maroon, reserved to the Kavatu royal
family. Other royal families probably have special reserved colors too.

> I should also ask about kinterms, since I've posted about them
> recently.
>
The system seems to resemble the US system :-(( No info on the Gwr; these
are Kash terms:
Mother inde, Father ama, Parents indeyama; Child ana (...sinut ~andi male,
..luma ~andum female); Gdfather otama, Gdmother otinde (ot- an old
honorific for elders); G-gdfather/mother otambarok, otimbarok (+marok 'old')
G-G-gdparents et seq. otambarok/otimbarok sila/ha... (+ 3,4...)
Brother: mambre, Sister: suya
Uncle (FaBro) mambrama (brother+father), (MoBro) mambrinde;
Aunt (FaSi) suyama, MoSi suwinde (suya 'sister+...')
Cousin: tiça; Nephew anambre, Niece anasuya (these two aren't quite right,
are they...)

Husband: kaçama ~çama (person+father), Wife kaçinde ~çinde; Spouse in genl:
kanjetre (agt.noun < cetre 'to marry')

Foster (perhaps also step-) child: ana lolan (+protect); orphan: ana unayo
(+abandoned)