Re: Random |mormon| :-) (was: my proposals for a philosophical language)

> >You do realize, don't you, that just by saying that you're begging
> >someone to put the word "mormon" into their conlang as something
> >completely random?  Like 'carrot' or 'jumping jacks'? :-)
Interestingly, "mormon" could easily be a Kirumb word.  From the proto-kirumb
root <mir-/mor-> indicating pain, damage, nightmares, and dark elves, with the
<-mo-> suffix indicating the result or state resulting from an action, <mormon>
(/mUr"mUN/ IIRC) would be the accusative of a *<mormos> or *<mormi:> meaning
"panic".[1]

Cf. Gk <mormo:tos> "frightful", <Mormo:> "a minor Greek goddess [who] bit
children in order to frighten them", and possibly L <formi:do:> "I fear" ( >
English "formidable").

    *Muke!
[1] I *think* <mormi:> would be the relevant form.  But I read about -iH2 stems
a long time ago and any actual work on Kirumb was even farther back.  Bah.
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