Re: weekly vocab

>   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