Re: weekly vocab

In response to Aidan Grey:

For Kash:
>>   1. birch (the tree)
Analogous:  ange hendo vanat 'tree-skin-white', if lexicalized, ...hemanat
or ...hembanat.  I'm grasping at straws here.
                  ange kapa 'a tree whose bark can be pounded into a
paper/cloth-like material, used (in traditional societies) to make
clothing'; kapa 'bark cloth', kapra (<*ka-r-pa) 'paper'

>>   2. werewolf / lycanthrope of some variety
-- not sure I want to go here.  The Gwr no doubt have a frightening version
of a Kash person who reverts to wild (panther-like) form and goes around
killing Gwr in gruesome ways. (The parallel would be human turning into a
gorilla rather than a wolf.)  The Kash, however, would not consider that
sort of reversion bad (they know that the Cousins do not kill wantonly); in
fact I think they would rather like the idea of sluffing off the
appurtenances of civilization and reverting to a State of Nature.  Though
killing Gwr would be a little non-PC these days.  For the Kash, some of the
spirits of Nature might be able to take on active form and bedevil an
individual or  humankind in general, but I doubt  they would be animal in
form--  a whirlwind; a typhoon or tsunami; a pursuing rock or tree (?!),
earthquake, etc. etc.  Bear in mind that the Kash have evolved from animals
that were/are the top of the food chain, "kings of the jungle"; they do not
fear other animals. (And for a Kash, the idea of a Gwr turning into
something vicious is laughable; they traditionally have considered the Gwr
to be quite nasty and untrustworthy enough in their actual form.)


>>   3. to save (money)
RAPUT (vt) to put away, save; toye ... savings (money); rundaput to preserve
food*; rapu(t)-raput to hoard; cakraput miserly, stingy; andraput s.t.
saved, put away for safe-keeping; yundraput store-house, ware-house, ...
kota vocabulary, ...etengi library (large or public) (but more usu pundek;
also kandengi,); archive(s); ...trafun ~yundrafun museum; kandrapu(t) celi
storage battery of a car, colloq. puceli
*rundaput is generic; compounds with raput {çeyak, samos etc} for 'to
pickle, to salt, etc.

>>   4. to conquer
KENDA to defeat, to conquer

>>   5. motif
no words at present, but will need to distinguish at least (1) pattern,
artistic design,  vs. (2) musical/literary theme