Re: Some Mujai Idioms

Well, I can't tell you any of those, but I can tell you the Eviendadhail
words for diamonds and and rubies--fairly unoriginal, but here they are:
Diamond- 'gyancuenth' /gjan'kwenT/ I think is the SAMPA, which literal
is star-gem
Ruby - 'Gyanar' /gjan'er/, where 'r' is the American English 'r', the
SAMPA for which I am unsure of.  It is literally blood-gem.
On a similar not, bronze is 'rodhereg', /rQD.Er'Eg/, which is
'strong-gold'.
-M

J Y S Czhang wrote:

>     Niceness. ::bein' the obsessive linguavore that I tend to try to be, I am
> now frikkin' curious how other NatLangs AND Conlangs name obsidian... and
> amber, opal, jade, etc..& how they say things like "opalescent" and
> "iridescent", etc.::
>
>     czHANg