Re: Degrees of comparation
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 5, 2001, 1:46 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sally Caves wrote:
> [interesting Teonaht stuff snipped]
> >Tairezazh, what a lovely name! Sounds like something the
> >Teonim would exclaim over for beauty.
>
> Those Teonim seems to've got good taste! :-)
Don't they! They love Yivrindel words, too. And
Draseleq.
> BTW, what does {ht} in "Teonaht" signify? [xt]?
Quick Nik Taylor got it right! "ht" is "th" backwards!
[T] so... Tay-oh-noth :-) Likewise, hs, hz, etc.
> > > tshedair most beautiful
> > > dadair more beautiful
> > > dair beautiful
> > > medair less beautiful
> > > sizdair least beautiful
> > >
> > > (All to be stressed on the _ai_)
> These prefices are actually descended from originally independent adverbs,
> so if the Teonim did that they'd exactly mimic the Tairezazh development.
In some combinations, yes! hse venda, "most good," becomes _hsvenda_,
"excellent," "superlative." Likewise, ykhsa venda, "least good," becomes
_ykhsvent_, "execrable," "terrible." Pronounced respectively:
['SvEnd@] and ['ikSvEnt]
Sal
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