[conlang] Digest Number 436

In the change from Early to Classical Lahabic:
EL:
thale'drakhe      girl
thale'dalei       girlhood
thale'nniyarkhe   little girl
thale'nniyandlei  little girlhood
tyelendha-        green (adj)
tyelendrakhe      youth
tyelenalei        greenness, a garden
tyelenniyandlei   a small garden (from widnow box size to about forty square
feet)
EL:
thle'drakh      girl
thle'dali'       girlhood
thale'ni'rkh   little girl
*thleinandli'  little girlhood
tyeldha-        green (adj)
thlendrakh      youth
tyelnali'        greenness, a garden
*thleinandli'   a small garden (from widnow box size to about forty square
feet)
Other accidental resemblances are la'rkh 'God' < la'rkhe, la'rkh 'thinker' <
hala'rakhe 'thinker' (replaced by alza'rkh (Animate) < alzali' 'thinking'
(Inanimate) < halazalei 'thinking'), all from route HALAZ-, and
ba'rkh 'member' < ba'rkhe < ba' 'body part' -r-khe and ba'rkh < haba'rakhe
'speaker', from root HABAZ- 'speak'
The islanders also confuse CL ou 'over' <  EL heud 'over' with CL u' < EL
houd 'onto'.
>I always find it interesting in any language when a word has two or more
>meanings, and I thought the examples sent in by Nik were great.
>
>When I was inventing the vocabulary for my own constructed language, Xara,
>I
>came across quite a few duplications when sorting out the word lists. Quite
>a few of them I actually did modify, but my favourite one, which I kept,
>was:
>
>jerex = music
>jerex = to live
>
>xo kaxalme jilfejan (With best wishes)
>Jim.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: conlang@egroups.com <conlang@...>
> >To: conlang@egroups.com <conlang@...>
> >Date: Monday, October 02, 2000 10:06 AM
> >Subject: [conlang] Digest Number 432
> >
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> >Message: 18
> >   Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 00:42:58 -0400
> >   From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
> >Subject: Some amusing co-incidences
> >
> >Setting shoebox to arrange the words solely by form (I normally have it
> >arrange words by word class, then by English gloss), I discovered a few
> >amusing co-incidences.
> >
> >U-dakív = Glory (Hyphens are inserted to point out the root)
> >Dakí = 5
> >   Interesting because 5 is considered an evil number!
> >
> >Lakázi-uki = Show mercy to
> >S-Lakáaz-uki = Deceive
> >
> >P-láif = Path - I wonder if this was some subconcious influence?
> >
> >U-lastá = Prophecy
> >La-lásta = Bird
> >
> >
> >
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