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From: "Aidan Grey" <grey@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: weekly vocab
> A lot of people have complained/noticed/commiserated about the
> difficulty of vocab creation. I don't really have a solution, but I
thought
> providing 5 (or 10) words a week might help with the issue somewhat. If I
> provided 5 words every week, and assuming that someone created words for
> the items, oh, 80% of the time, that's 52 x 5 x 0.8 = 208 new word a year.
> Not a huge jump forward, but certainly better than the 15 per year some of
> us (like myself) get stuck at.
>
> 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)
unknown...the birch doesn't occur in Zitwbasa if it did, I'd borrow
it from English '-b-r-c' /-b-r-tS/
> 2. werewolf / lycanthrope of some variety
Shapeshifter: ludaza aKw (lit. Changing Person)
> 3. to save (money)
Root: n-j-t
Present\infinitive: najot /najot/
lit. to keep
> 4. to conquer
Root: g-z
Present/infinitive: gazo /gazo
lit. to whip
> 5. motif
Root: -t-S
Nominative Singular: atwS
lit. Sky (idiom of undetermined origin...taken to mean pattern)
> Of course, free variation from the meanings here is encouraged. Some
may
> not be appropriate to your lang / conculture, and the point is to help
> create vocab, not nitpick what any given word means in particular.
>
> I'll post my new vocab in a different post. I'm hoping that seeing what
> other people do will also help inspire me.
>
> Aidan
>