Re: weekly vocab

>From: "Douglas Koller, Latin & French" <latinfrench@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: weekly vocab
>Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:11:28 -0500
>
>  Aidan wrote:
>
>>   I'll start with five (but 10 would put our number above up to 416!),
>>and
>>if it looks like it will help, I'll continue to do so weekly,  and may
>>upgrade the number depending on popularity and usefulness.
>>
>>   Here goes:
>>
>>   1. birch (the tree)
>>   2. werewolf / lycanthrope of some variety
>>   3. to save (money)
>>   4. to conquer
>>   5. motif
>
<snip>
Here are the words in Lahabic:
1. birch
lamandetelembrakhe "white tree"
["l{.m{n."de.te.%l2m.b_j{.k_he]
from
LAMAN 'white'
-de- genitive animate affix
TELEM 'tree, wooden'
-ra (<-r=) nominative animate affix
-khe nominative singular animate suffix
2. werewolf
No exact equivalent; all canines on the Island are wild; but perhaps this is
interesting
qaru'rakhe - wild dog
[N{.%ru:.r{.k_he]
QARU'S- howl up (at the moon)
-ra- nominative animate affix
-khe nominative singular animate affix
The derivation is interesting
qaru'rakhe [N{ru:rak_he]
qaru's [N{ru:s] howl up (at the moon)
qwaru's [N_waru:s] howl up
nwaru's [n_waru:s] howl up
n-waru's [n=-waru:s] up-howl
waru's [waru:s] howl, which started on this list as [wa:rus], a Lahabic
adaption of walrus and their typical bellowings.
The word qaru'ro'lei 'moon=that which is howled at' also belongs with these
words.
3. to save (money)
dyergwiqkine(h)-
[d_jer.g_wiN.ki.ne.h]
dyer- preposition, away from
gwim- [g_wym] preposition, with
KINE(H)- hold
Irregular declensions: imperfect relative future -e'- from kine-e- (instead
of kin-e-)
4. to conquer
walaseunaiid- (NB: in certain contexts, this word can mean 'to rape')
[w{.l{.z2u.n{i.i.d]
WALAS- force
-en- instrumental inanimate affix
WAYID take, steal (the Lahabra are apparently communal)
-en-w->-enw- > -eun-
If one wished to place stress on the use of hired thugs, one might use:
walauseunaiid-
[w{.l{.z2u.n{i.i.d]
WALAS
-win- instrumental animate affix
WAYID
-walas-win-waiid > -walaswinwaiid- > -walausiunaiid- > -walauseunaiid-
5. motif
dhoiyakro'lei
["d_hVi.jak.%ro:.lei]
Originallly this word referred to a zigzag patern; hence the use of 'leap'.
dho- iterative prefix ('again')
HIYAK leap
-ro'- accusative inanimate affix
-lei nominative singular inanimate suffix



ObLang: What are the voiced aspirates in Sanskrit, if they are not aspirates
phonetically?

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