Categories in Lingua Ignota (was RE: LeGuin (was: a 12th century conlang))
| From: | FFlores <fflores@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 25, 1999, 20:44 |
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Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
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> We were talking just a few days ago about the _Lingua Ignota_. I'vedone this
very
> thing when making up vocabulary (nouns) for Teonaht. I was
> going to suggest that we conlangers produce some taxonomies similar
> to Hildegard's: Let's see a list from some of you with at least twenty
items
> in each of these categories:
>
> 1. God, gods, angels, saints, and demons.
AFMCL Drasele'q (word count :
Elan "The Eternal" (the God of the Illuminated)
elas (just a god)
Tarrag "the Devil" (evil force(s) of the world)
Oldeni^l Di'ndimbal "Oldeni^l the Illuminated One"
The forces of nature:
Aro^ng, "Chaos"
Mere^k, "Order"
Eha^p, "Lighy"
Peve'n "Darkness"
Alosta "Cold"
Posse "Heat"
Atthu'ndnotsel Duqis "The Unnamed Force"
Other gods:
Gresse^nq (lord of the mountains)
Skoi`m (lord of the marshes)
Otsung (lord of the sea)
Rodhre'l (lady of growth and spring)
Pa`rvat (lady of fertility)
Anu"vor (god of fire)
Nifa^n (lord of fire [another one])
Rreiful (lady of iron and patron of the smiths)
Tegnam (god of luck)
Sienqgam (god of justice, brother of Tegnam)
Fensi^l (the Dark One, lord of the night spirits, madness and fear)
Ha'pseret (the Clear One, sister of Fensi^l)
Srothlon (the hand of death)
Mi'lmenqgran (lady of birth and the unborn children)
(I've been working on this!)
> 2. Human family relationships.
teus "child, offspring"
teumus "son"
teuvas "daughter"
nerr(id) "mother"
uld(id) "father"
ululdid "grandfather"
and combinations.
> 3. The parts of the body.
mer "mouth"
ne`th "head"
qan "face"
rru`s "leg"
na"t "arm"
sto`m "chest"
ku"rus "knee"
gep "eye"
vaid "finger/toe"
fith "foot"
idan "hand"
qola"d "iris"
> 4. Diseases of the body.
Just one general term:
trioqain "disease, sickness"
> 5. Names relating to Church or Religion
oldoren "priest" (lit. yellow-man, man in yellow)
tarfra"'th "religion, cult"
thalmor "soul" (from thalm- "door", the soul is the "inner room")
> 6. Names relating to Secular Hierarchies, the parts of Government
dantur "king"
danteumus "prince"
danteuvas "princess"
qlonenqgron "great lord, emperor"
dhidenqgrig "little lord, governor of a province"
ulienqgrig "patriarch, head of the family"
dansniton "royal counselor, minister, court negotiator"
(dan)kamp "counselor"
kasi^b "commander, general"
> 7. The parts of trade and human craft.
Not many so far... Though I could make a few derivations.
> 8. Days, months, seasons of the year, hours, minutes.
The 12 months and the extra "week":
Name Begins Lasts (days)
1 namis ["new one"] 25/Oct 30
2 tenthemel ["repeats itself"] 24/Nov 29
3 mu"nvu"ris ["end of the first"] 23/Dec 30
4 qa`ni'var ["very much heat"] 22/Jan 29
5 rrompla'nth ["big apples"] 20/Feb 30
6 klanvu"ris ["end of the second"] 22/Mar 29
7 mienfarel ["the humid one"] 20/Abr 30
8 soimarel ["the misty one"] 20/May 29
9 rrosnet ["sea wind"] 18/Jun 30
10 nalosnet ["cold wind"] 18/Jul 29
11 skelkel ["the gathered"] 16/Aug 30
12 teubelar ["children's birth"] 15/Sep 29
danqu"ngep ["short dozen of days"] 14/Oct 11
> 9. The Quotidian things of life: clothing, houses, farming.
bre`r "clothing, clothes"
paol "loose coat"
sve`g "roof"
folge't "chair"
nailos "window"
fa`nedhor "foyer"
endhilden "to plant"
imma'neor "plantation, field"
sindior "flower garden"
pu`g "cow"
fok "ox"
fogoef "cattle"
ilnavdar "harvest"
> 10. The parts of the Natural World.
ba"`n "plant, vegetal thing"
thu"`g "animal, beast, nonhuman being"
ren "person" (actually "man"... patriarchal society!)
nain "sky"
dhrith "land, earth"
rros "sea, ocean"
dinias "star"
bais "sun"
is(ais) "moon"
hal "bird"
rrenvel "four-legged animal" (rren-vidh-el "four-foot-ones")
grais "mountain"
qanas "plain"
--Pablo Flores
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