Re: Dropping Q and C (was: Some isolating verb patterns)

--- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:

> On Saturday, January 15, 2005, at 11:09 , Gary
> Shannon wrote:
<snip>
>
> Frater which,  like Gary's conlang, is isolating and
> takes the bulk of its
> vocabulary from Latin & Greek, certainly does not
> adhere to Latin spelling.
>   It uses "K" or "S"  for Latin C (it doesn't have
> semivowels, so Latin QV
> is rendered simply as "K").
Having never heard of Frater (where HAVE I been?) I
had to go look it up and find out how it compares with
what I'm playing with.

One big difference is that I was planning to mark
words according to their parts of speach with some
ending on the root. Thus where Frater used "andro" as
either a noun or adjective (as in "male dog") in my
project I had assigned "andru" for the noun and
"andre" for the adjective.

Also I have about four pages so far of suffixes used
to build new words from existing roots. Things like:

-(a)iu for a public room or building
-(i)stu for a public, but commercial place
-(o)im for a private place

   libariu - library
   libarim - room in a private home for books
   liberistu - bookstore
   (Not to mention the vital "pitsaristu".)

As an example here are various words for "church".

veno = worship
suplo = pray
invoko = perform a ritual of invocation
ritulo = to perform a ritual
transo = meditate
sakro = consecrate, make sacred

venariu = public place of worship
venorim = shrine room
suplariu = public place of prayer
suplorim = prayer room
invokariu = public place of ritual
invokorim = private ritual room
transariu = public place of mediataion
transorim = private mediataion room
sakriu = public place of consecration (not "sakrariu",
as would be expected)

In addition, I have words that have implied gender and
suffixes for altering the gender of a word: "rezhu"
(king) + "(u)mu" (feminizing suffix) -> "rezhumu"
(queen).

So I guess it's not as purely isolating as I first
intended.

--gary

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