Re: periods of the day
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 28, 2003, 17:01 |
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Interesting, Garrett! The Teonaht day is also divided into four parts... I
think it's only natural. But in Teonaht, the day begins with sunrise, which
has, of course, been petrified by the clock. 6:00am is the beginning of the
new day, till noon--so that's morning, just like your coce; then noon to
sunset (6:00pm) is afternoon; and so on.
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garrett Jones" <conlang@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: periods of the day
> This last weekend i invented the periods of the day for Minyeva. They
center
> around four points of the day: sunrise, noon, sunset, and midnight.
>
> fabo: 'night' (midnight - sunrise)
> coce: 'morning' (sunrise - noon)
> mega: 'afternoon' (noon - sunset)
> pito: 'evening' (sunset - midnight)
>
> veva: 'day' (sunrise - sunset); coce + mega
> zige: 'night' (sunset - sunrise); pito + fabo
>
> bani: 'day' (midnight - midnight); fabo + coce + mega + pito
>
> seja: 'sunrise'
> tilo: 'noon'
> vuna: 'sunset'
> zoke: 'midnight'
>
> I have two words that translate to 'night' in english, and two words that
> translate to 'day'. The word fabo (night after midnight) is a subset of
zige
> (night). The word veva could also be translated as 'daytime', while bani
is