qwed117 wrote: ↑03 Oct 2020 19:09
Ah, a living fossil! Like a coelacanth or a gingko
Yes, exactly!
I figure one could also say something like livjand fossil or livjande fossilja, but I don't think those would have kept us occupied for almost 7 months.
Many thanks to everyone who participated in this round of the game!
A bit more background on the phrase:
Spoiler:
As I mentioned, frastänodhed was calqued from the word for fossil in a Slavic language, not just to present more of a challenge but also for vague cultural/althistorical reasons. As far as I can tell, nothing like *frastainōną is reconstructed for Proto-Germanic, but I took inspiration, so to speak, from Swedish förstena, Dutch verstenen, and German versteinern.
I chose to use the present participle of kviuna "to come (back) to life" rather than that of livja "to live, to be alive" to, again, try to make the game more interesting, but also because of how, when a "living fossil" species is described by mainstream science, popular media may talk about it as if it's been suddenly resurrected.
qwed117 wrote: ↑03 Oct 2020 20:37
Cool word! Because I'm currently doing the "Guess the word in the Romlang" game, I'll pass this to whosoëver wants it.
Seeing as it’s been a few days and no one has stepped up, I guess I’ll have a go.
Modern Sortsbergish
höcado tatspast
/høːt͡sado tatspast/
Spoiler:
I edited this from tatspasta to tatspast, this doesn’t affect the meaning of the word but confirms it better to Sortsbergish morphophonology. You can consider “tatspasta” as a hint though.
Last edited by spanick on 07 Oct 2020 00:37, edited 2 times in total.
qwed117 wrote: ↑03 Oct 2020 20:37
Cool word! Because I'm currently doing the "Guess the word in the Romlang" game, I'll pass this to whosoëver wants it.
Seeing as it’s been a few days and no one has stepped up, I guess I’ll have a go.
Modern Sortsbergish
höcado tatspast
/høːt͡sado tatspast/
Spoiler:
I edited this from tatspasta to tatspast, this doesn’t affect the meaning of the word but confirms it better to Sortsbergish morphophonology. You can consider “tatspasta” as a hint though.
Better ask the obvious: Does “tatspast” mean toothpaste?
qwed117 wrote: ↑03 Oct 2020 20:37
Cool word! Because I'm currently doing the "Guess the word in the Romlang" game, I'll pass this to whosoëver wants it.
Seeing as it’s been a few days and no one has stepped up, I guess I’ll have a go.
Modern Sortsbergish
höcado tatspast
/høːt͡sado tatspast/
Spoiler:
I edited this from tatspasta to tatspast, this doesn’t affect the meaning of the word but confirms it better to Sortsbergish morphophonology. You can consider “tatspasta” as a hint though.
Better ask the obvious: Does “tatspast” mean toothpaste?