Re: Interesting Words

 >From: Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>
 >
 >Well, let's see.  In Graavg'aaln, I have three words for pillar:
 >There are seven words for strong or strength:
 >
 >hrti^g (the strength to continue doing something -- endurance)
 >naarllv (the ability to do many repetitions of lift)

        Are you a weight-lifter?

 >There are eight words for upper arm:
 >There are seven words that could be translated as wrestling:
 >
 >And finally there are nineteen words that could be translated "lift":

        Woah.

 >waazhoov (a humongous bowl like the ones they serve soup in at Vietnamese
 >restaurants)

        Mmmm.  Now I'm hungry for some pho.  Perhaps I'll run off for
Bun thit for lunch...  Oh, no!  I lack a word for "fish sauce" in
Vaior!

 >And I have two words for anger which imply several others may exist.
 >
 >dhiv (mild anger)
 >ghixokh (earth-shattering fury, murderous rage)
 >with a note that the second state may also be referred to as a "blood-roar"
 >
 >So I like weird lexemes.  So sue me.

        I wouldn't think of it.

        This creation of "weird" lexemes is part of the reason I
invent languages.  The most recent one, Vaior, has a lot of this sort
of thing, but nothing approaches your lifting words.  My own
obsessions come into play for this, of course, so there I keep working
on fairly precise terminology for:

        * internal martial arts (i.e., taiji, xingyi and bagua)
        * food of all sorts (southeast asian and middle eastern focus
          these days)
        * electronic music (a lot of timbre terms)
        * microtonal music (many ratios get their own name)
        * some politics

In the past I've studded my languages with a precise vocabulary for
sexual frustration, but I'm not 18 any more, so I refrain from much of
that these days.  It makes straight guys nervous anyway. :) But,
here's a quick sampling, mostly in the theoretical root form:

LID - v.intr. peaceful, but an externally enforced peace;

OLV - v.intr. peaceful, mutually agreed on lack of discord

S

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