Re: conlang names

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:13:52PM -0500, # 1 wrote:
>    What do you take as names?
Well, I very unoriginally use a word from the language itself.
Okaikiar, for instance, is the Okaikiar word for "what is spoken across
time" or some such - it's the temporal mode of "kaikiar", which is the
normal word for "speech" (literally, "that which is spoken"; passive
agentive form of the verb "kaikan" = "to speak").

Whereas "Methkaeki" is even more boringly the Methkaeki word for "language".

I'm running into a nomenclatural problem myself with my current project;
it's a romlang, and romlangs are traditionally called by the name of the
region - unless surrounded by non-Romance langauges, in which case they
retain a reflex of "Roman".  But I don't have a setting for my language
yet, so I don't know what region its in or what it's surrounded by . . .

-Marcos