Re: Native Grammatical terms

On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Hey, do y'all have "native" grammatical terms in your conlangs?  That
> is, have you worked out how the speakers of your conlangs would describe
> their language?
Yup, but not as many as you have!

Preposition:  Mohekave = "where-word"

Conunction:  Zatuape = "knot"

Verb: Nehukave = "go-word"

Adverb:  Pizikave = "how-word"

Noun: Sapokave = "thing-word"

Sentence: pisuea kave = "column of words" (or just pisue, "column")

Letter: temapue = "that which one creates by the use of the 'te,' or
writing reed."  (this also means "syllable", and sometimes "written
word", since the Hatasoe script is still semi-syllabic with a few
ideographic characters [such as 'hivi', oa-, en- sen-, -ken-, nehasa, shu,
sho, tano, ea, hane, -ni-, poa, huvora, apueo, etc.])

To write: tema = "to use a writing reed".  Although the Hataso now use
something quite similar to our fountain pen, they still call it a "te".