Re: thanks and name
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 29, 2002, 22:08 |
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Bob Greenwade wrote:
>At 10:29 PM 3/19/02 -0500, Aidan Grey wrote:
>>How do you folks name your languages, and what do they mean?
>
> Rav Zarruvo is taken from its own phrase for itself, yirav zarruvo
>(yi_r+a_v za\r+u/vo_), which means, "our speech" (or, more literally,
>"speech belonging to you, me, and too many others to count").
>
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".
Andreas
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