Re: weekly vocab

On Friday 29 March 2002 21:40, Aidan Grey wrote:
>
>    1. birch (the tree)
rega, birch (from Khemic-Coastal REH^, be white + GHAN, tree,
plant)

This gives me the first specified member of the flora of Khem, by the
way. It's supposed to be vaguely "Central European", so I guess the
birch fits.

>    2. werewolf / lycanthrope of some variety
I'm not at all sure the Kematians believe in anything like werewolves
or other shape-changers, but, with no provision for the construction
actually being used, you could say

val dais, to change shape to (literally "change shapely", "dais",
shape, being used as an adverb), or, if you want to emphasize that the
changing person is in control, val wer dais ihateni, cause oneself to
change shape to

valbedais, shape-changer, (val + be, changer, with "dais" as an adjective)

>    3. to save (money)
sekei, to collect, to save increasingly (from se, to store, keep, save
+ -kei, do increasingly)

>    4. to conquer
ahailer, to conquer (from ahaik, to make war on + -ler, do to completion)

>    5. motif
vatakazdo, subject, theme, motif (pseudo-North Kematian (Kemata's
ancestor North Kematian is used for "learned borrowings", like English
uses Latin and Greek), from vatakyas, to see + -do, object of verb,
thus "what is seen")

On another note, I've finally managed to work a bit on Kemata's grammar,
and have written down the parts of it dealing with verbs, nouns,
pronouns and adjectives. If I get the time to reformat it from
LaTeX to plain text, I might post it to the list eventually.

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Rune Haugseng

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