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Re: thanks and name

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Saturday, March 30, 2002, 19:17
 3/29/02 10.09.07 PM, Andreas (and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM) een grrav'i:

>Most of my conlangs' names comes from topnyms. _Tairezazh_ is from >_Taireza_, which in turn is from _Taia_ "(planet) Earth" and _reze_ >"country, nation". _Tersnuvu_ is the language of _Tersnu_, which means >"Horizon-land" ("horizon" referin metaphorically to the galactic rim). >_Steienzh_, _Altaii_, _Keshéâras_ (and the names of a number of merely >sketched languages) comes from toponyms of undecided meaning. _Kalini Sapak_ >simply means "Clans' Speech".
Interestin' word _Taia_! Derived from Greek _Gaia_??? There is no initial 'g' in your ConLang? Or is is _Taia_ "pidgin-ized" and vowel-harmonized version of "Terra"? .ur`-ae'u'm is undergoing further phonological revisions/orthographic simplifications and the name has even changed slightly. In English: it's Aum-Ur (hehe, like um ehr... uhm er...) <tentative ideas> _Gaia_ is - in Aum-Ur - _ xa'ia _ /ka_h.i.a:/(sound-symbolically linked to the word _xi_ /ki:/[like the Chinese word _ch'i_, Japanese word _gi_ ] and - possibly, the word _xa'zmoz_ /ka_hz.moz/ "cosmos"). The phonological inventory of consonants (and perhaps even the vowels) I have in mind is asymmetrical (no /g/ or /f/,/b/ ferinstance, but use of /k_h/ or /tS/ and /v/,/v_h/) More details later... Hanuman Zhang {HANoomaan JAHng} /'hanuma~n dZahN/ __ __ _ __ _ __ __ __ _ __ _ ___ ___ _ CENTO: twinkle twinkle lil stars Un COUP De DéS ... JAMAIS ... N'ABOLIRA ... Le HASARD <> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! O! Notte stellata... matematica... les astres sont le silencieux orchestre des mondes in connus OM ... m'illumino d' immenso... OM