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Re: weekly vocab

From:Aidan Grey <grey@...>
Date:Friday, March 29, 2002, 21:34
> 1. birch (the tree)
beth /'be:T/ : n. birch bedha /'be:.D@/ : v. shine (white), glow in the dark from root *BET: glow or shine (white) [< OIr beth 'birch'] (note that the [] indicate external inspirations, not internal ones)
> 2. werewolf / lycanthrope of some variety
saenach /'s&:.n@x/ : shape-shifter (lit. little changer) sel /'se:l/ : v. intr. change seltha /'sel.T@/ : v. tr. change (and if anyone's paying attention, I know this violates my stress rules - I'm working on fixing them) caurdhan /'kOr.D@n/ : crow-man, the distinctive cultural shapeshifting animal for the Taalen is the crow, much as the fox is for the Japanese, the wolf for the English, the seal for the Irish, and so on. from *SEL change [<selkie]
> 3. to save (money)
laus /'laws/ : save (money), harvest (crops) lautha /'law.T@/ : rescue lausseva /'lOs.sE.v@/ : n. safety from *LAWAS gather < *LAW hand [ < Ir sa/bha/il 'save money' reversed]
> 4. to conquer
coel /'kojl/ : v.tr. defeat, conquer by violent means (orig n.) coe: n. stone (archaic, now used only of stone weapons, slingstones, etc.) < KOY stone [ Ir. clo/igh 'defeat']
> 5. motif
caalach /'kO.l@x/ : theme, genre, motif (lit. little nut) caal /'kO:l/ : nut < *KAL-L hazelnut < *KOL hazel [< Ir. coll 'hazel'] Note that 'aa' should be pronounced with the ring-a of Swedish, I just have no idea what the appropriate sampa is. So, there's my contributions! What about yours? Aidan