Re: Birth-related vocabulary?
| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 17, 2007, 2:48 |
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>Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> wrote:
>My announcement post got me thinking. How many people have a lot of
>birth vocabulary in their conlangs?
Here are the "birthing" terms from Senjecas. I hope I didn't get
carried away. I was an R.N. before I entered the seminary.
baby, infant – nmerlyus (not-talk-little-person)
baby carriage, stroller - nmerlyredhos (baby-vehicle)
beget – dzoona
breech birth – loxparos (wrong-crown)
conceive – zwiijam doona (life give)
crown (show, display) – para
Csection – uderpidos (belly-birth)
deliver (release, set free) - sweva
diaper – nmerlymhevos (baby-cloth)
egg, lay an – ooja; egg, ovum – oojes; ovary – oojgenvos; oviduct,
Fallopian tube – oojtulos
ejaculate – skeeta
embryo - dzeejtenos
epidural – enmreqmekadhis (on-brain-covering)
fetus - gwervos
give birth, bear, bring forth, kindle - pida
have sex – jeva
inseminate, impregnate – seega; sperm – seegos; semen - seeqdaanos
labor – dzeencemas (birth-exertion)
miscarry – loxpida (mistake-give birth)
neonate, newborn - juundzeenatus
pacifier - miiros
pant - cusa
placenta, afterbirth - lenjhos
postnatal - posdzeenathis
postpartum - posdzeenos
premature birth – jelgwemos; preemie - jelgwemus
prenatal - perdzeenathis
pregnant – ajhis (of animals); dheejis (of humans)
push (exert, strain) - cema
sire, father - apa
stillborn – meerdzeenatus (dead-born)
umbilical cord - neevpentos
uterus, womb – gwelvos
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