CHAT: A hand of days - Re: CHAT: The Elven (or Techian) calendar

On Tue, 14 May 2002 16:38, Philip Newton wrote:
> On 13 May 02, at 16:37, Danny Wier wrote:
> > This is more a concultural item than a conlang, but the conlang part
> > obviously is what nomenclature to use for days, months, years and
> > any other calendary measurement of time.
>
> Well, MFCL is Verdurian. Instead of repeating what Mark has said about
> its days and months, I'll just point you to
> http://www.zompist.com/refs.htm#time .
>
> Basically, seven days in a week (incidentally, "week" is "hepdën" < hep
> "seven" + dën "day"),
Just to set the cat among the pigeons, my concultures on Alpha Centauri Alpha
- since the planet has no moon worth noticing - always refer to "a hand of
days" as the shortest period of time less than a season.  In yhe vala lakha,
it is tu'awa aru nyare - hand of days; "aru" is the objective genitive,
objective in this case because there is no clear connection between the terms
"hand" and "day".  "hyare" is a formation based on "revo" - "sun" with the
masculine prefix "nya".

<mostly named after gods, though the names are
> worn down a little so that the relationship is not immediately obvious.
> And twelve 27- or 28-day months, mostly with names related more or less
> to events happening in that month (reminds me a bit of old German month
> names); the year has 328 days except in leap years.
>
> Cheers,
> Philip
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