Re: weekly vocab
| From: | Cian Ross <cian@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 4, 2002, 3:39 |
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Aidan, very interesting idea!! BTW, for lack of acute accents in US ASCII,
I'm writing the Veldan long vowels with doubled letters. The letter y is the
(rounded) vowel, not the consonant.
On Friday 29 March 2002 02:40 pm, Aidan Grey wrote:
> 1. birch (the tree)
feraldes [common gender, from Vanarinwa "feralda"--the Vanar introduced
beeches to Veldanore]
> 2. werewolf / lycanthrope of some variety
camblycos [= "change-wolf"]
> 3. to save (money)
saamso- [= "put aside", "set aside", "save"], e.g., saamsom = "I save"
(This verb can be used with anything that can be saved, kept, stored, etc.)
> 4. to conquer
perwiica- [= "win all the way through"], e.g. perwiicaste = "you (sg.) win"
> 5. motif
aresiimen [= "again-thing", repeated item or pattern]
Cian
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