Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang

Matt Trinsic wrote:
> Hello Isidora =)
> By an interesting coincidence, my language also happens to have two
> roots for the verb 'make'. Although they differ somewhat from yours. Tre
> means 'to build or make something of material already in existance'
> while Thra means 'to cause to exist or make something from nothing'. In
> the case of conlanging, the actual root used would depend on if it was
> an a priori or an a posteri.
>
Curiously, so does Kash, and then some.
1. ahan-- like your Thra, create, devise, invent, compose (from nothing, but
by mental effort)
2. rumolu-- put together, build/assemble from parts; it's the caus. of volu
'bring together, amass; as adj. constructed, man-made'
3. rumale-- caus. of ale 'to be', to bring into being, create; not sure
about the semantics of this, but it definitely implies non-volitional or
unintentional, as in "Your mistake has created a problem".

Finally, 4. mepu 'to do, to make; to work', which also serves to make verbs
out of nouns and onomatopoeics-- mepu honder 'make an attack, to attack',
mepu çunduçu 'to leer at, ogle' (lit., make eye-promiscuous), mepu sit-sit
'to go "scratch-scratch" and so forth.

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