Lexember 2023

[Knox Adjacent]

Day 18
-raŋ adj. false; untrue
-raŋta- v.i. lie ("lie-say")
-ta-raŋta- v.t. lie about

C.F. -la- (PST -laya) v. say; vocalize

[zyma]

Day 19

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Hannaito (Entry 19):

tsuqnar /tuʔnar/ [ˈt͡sʊʔ.naɾ]
Verb (Intransitive):
1. to open, to unfurl, to blossom, to bloom, to widen
2. to be open
3. to gape, to gawk
4. to gasp
5. to yawn
6. to be tired, to be bored
7. to be tiring, to be boring
8. to be confused, to be dumbfounded

Etymology
From Proto-Hannaitoan *cuqnar "to open, to gawk". Cognates include Gampyo sunnar "to open, to be attentive" and Fiigarazg shodnə "to open, to blossom".

[lurker]

Dawn of the Nineteenth Day. 281 Hours Remain

Bdq-qgKq-sCF

from Bdq (valley, dale) + qgKq (yinrih) + sFC (new)

Proper Noun

Newman's Dale, the tropical river basin that the yinrih originate from. It is considered the holiest place in the Bright Way, and its former seat of power before the ouster of the clergy from power and exile to Hearthside. "Newman" hear refers to newly sapient yinrih.

Externally, a calque of German "Neandertal", with "Neander" being the name of a Calvinist hymn writer, itself an ancient Greek calque of the German surname "Neumann" or "newman".

[_Just_A_Sketch]

Lexember Day 19
Hɛlcɛso
Hɛlwɛt /xɛlwɛt/
Noun - inan. - a secret, a prayer

Etymology - nominalized form of Hɛlwɛ "to whisper"

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It seems I have once again been struck by conlanging burnout. I'm really not surprised though, since I did spend nearly a whole semester conlanging (I believe that's the longest Ive gone without burnout). However, Ill try to push through and finish Lexember! I'm also getting several books on conlanging soon so lets hope those renew my interest in conlanging :)

[conlang-creature]

Pananarfeja - Eighteenth Day
pasot - to order, command

Jaxtfe djot ver pason.
Jaxt-fe djot ver paso-n
Traditional-3SG hunt 1PL order-3SG
Ritual/tradition commands us to hunt.

Pananarfefeja - Nineteenth Day
mehet - to discuss

Poffor tedjot per tanqgor tenqet mehet babanq.
poffo-r te-djot per tanqgo-r te-nqet mehet baba-nq
man-PL GER-hunt and shelter-PL GER-make discuss FUT-3PL
The men discussed hunting and making shelters.

[spanick]

Lexember 19

Yemya
ślauj /ɕlauʝ/ v. “to lie; to tell a lie” from PIE * h₂lewgʰ

Yinše
‘iskaa /ʔiskaː/ v.tr. “to curse someone”

[Shemtov]

Day 19:
Xab'aan
/ʐaɓa:n/
[ʐäɓɑ:n]
Verb: "To write"

Day 20:
Ci
/t͡ʃi/
[t͡ʃi]
Noun: "Grapheme; identifiable part of writing"
Note:Hanese borrowing

Day 21:
Zab'atci
/θaɓatt͡ʃi/
[θäɓɐtt͡ʃi]
Noun: "Logogram"

Day 22:
B'eŋxab'atci
/ɓɛŋʐaɓatt͡ʃi/
[ɓɛŋʐaɓɐtt͡ʃi]
Noun: "Syllable or rhyme grapheme that disambiguates Logograms and provides affixes and other morphological information"

Day 23:
Duhci
/duht͡ʃi/
[duht͡ʃi]
Noun: Grapheme that shows reduplication

General note: Much of the vocabulary surrounding grammar, orthography, religion and philosophy (so next week) was borrowed from Old Hic'agese, a language related to Zeigouŋdeizese, both being in the Peninsular-Serelian branch of Waanic, as Hic'ag was the main cultural center of Southwest Waan, before Zeigouŋdeiza took its place. This explains some irregularities in compounding, as Hic'agese, and the Serelian subbranch in general, has a rich system of sandhi lacking in Zeigouŋdeizese and the Peninsular subbranch at large. The fact that /ʐ/sometimes occurs in these loans is a happy coincidence of the time of borrowing, as Old Hic'agese had the cognate phoneme as /ʝ/, which was adapted to Old Zeigouŋdeizese as /ʑ/, which shifted to /ʐ/ before the language at the time of documentation. Meanwhile, Hic'agese fused /ʝ/ with /ɣ/, which was borrowed into Zeigouŋdeizese as /g/. Borrowings from Hanese in these semantic spheres may be filtered through Hic'agese, though not always; For example, both Waanic language independently borrowed /t͡ʃi/

[Arayaz]

Monday, Lexember 18

Theme: Speaking, Speech, Speech Acts, Verbal Communication, Spoken Language, Vocalization

Šne’ódn nadzá’e “to sing loudly and deeply, to sing from the chest”

Šní nadzá’e. “They are a chest-singing group.”
group chest-with-sing

• I’ve switched to Šne’ódn for the rest (?) of Lexember. It has a bit of Salish inspiration (because they’re the best languages), so...yeah.
• Chest-singing (as I’ve calqued it) is an important part of Teynsh culture, characteristic of rituals of request, since it allows the world and spirits to hear.

[Iyionaku]

Lexember 20 - Yélian

blidacu [blɨˈdaːkʉ] - presentation [Northern Standard]
blidunal [blɨˈduːnɐl] - presentation [Southern Standard]

Etymology I: from blida "to show; to watch; to consider; to observe; to seek" + nacu "speech"
Etymology II: from blida "to show; to watch; to consider; to observe; to seek" + punal "demonstration, showcase"

Candreyauni fúria otéi tyafirtreyein æ'turasé sanim o'blidunaun o'PowerPoint, èpa tatganan: Tòimomeravat renim nespatmalfo SIY YÉLIUN can tyaselein valitbicaunòpiganan!
[kɐndˈɾeːʃaʊ̯nɨ ˈɸuːɾɪ̯ɐ ɔ̈ˈtɛɪ̯ t͡ʃɐɸɨɾtˈɾeːʃɛɪ̯n ətʉɾɐˈseː ˈsaːnɨm ɔ̈blɨˈduːnaʊ̯n ɔ̈ˈpaʊ̯əɾpɔʊ̯nt, ˈɛpɐ tɐˈgaːnɐn | ˌtɔʊ̯mɔ̈ˈmeːɾɐʋɐt ˈɾeːnɨm ˌnespɐtˈmalo sa̯iː ˈʃeːlɨ̯ʉn kan t͡ʃɐˈseːlɛɪ̯n ˌvaːlɨˈbiːkaʊ̯ˌnɔ̈pɨˌxaːnɐn]
tip-PL-ENUM ten how POT-improve-2PL DEF.CONC=impact 2PL.POSS DEF.GEN=presentation-PL DEF.GEN=PROP, and thing-many.COMP-PL | subscribe-JUS.2PL 1PLEX.POSS newsletter before moon for POT-receive-2PL recommendation-PL-awesome-many.COMP-PL
Ten tips how to improve the impact of your PowerPoint presentations and more: Subscribe to our newsletter TODAY to get more awesome recommendations!

New word for this example sentence:

nespatmalfo [ˌnespɐtˈmalo] - newsletter
Etymology: calque from English: nespat "news" + malfo "letter"

[Knox Adjacent]

Day 19
-yal̪aka-la- v.i. refuse (decline a request) ("no-say")
-lawur-ta- v.i. scream; yell; shout; howl ("scream-say")
-ta-mumu-la- v.t. call X son; be father to ("APPL-son-say")

Delocutives ahoy

[zyma]

Day 20

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Hannaito (Entry 20):

dzupu /dupu/ [ˈd͡zʊ.pʊ]
Verb (Intransitive):
1. to cough
2. to choke
3. to sputter, to stutter
4. (rare) to drown
5. to be sick
6. to clear one's throat
7. to suddenly make noise, to be startled

Etymology
From Proto-Hannaitoan *dupu "to cough".

[Arayaz]

Tuesday, Lexember 19

Theme: Speaking, Speech, Speech Acts, Verbal Communication, Spoken Language, Vocalization

Šne’ódn ’ódndz “to speak in a language”

’Ódndzbšon, xóŋ qá’brš. “We speak, but swine do not.”
tongue-use-ability-have-1pl.INCL / swine do.so-ability-not.have-3pl.AN

• This is an important verb, as in the Teynsh worldview, the only thing setting humans apart from all other entities in the world is the capacity for language (’ódndzb).
• This contrasts with šík “to make meaningless noise.”

[eldin raigmore]

5. to be sick

Do you mean the Briticism for “to vomit” and/or “to be nauseous”?

Because in North American English, “sick” means “diseased”, “ill”.

Not a criticism; merely a request for clarification!

[Pabappa]

there was a power outage and im still getting things back together. all i have for today is Play vipabe "sentence", as in grammar, from MRCA li hipa plus a classifier suffix.

[lurker]

Dawn of the Twentieth Day. 248 Hours Remain

sHJqg

[yip, long rising weakening growl, huff, short low weak growl]

Noun

1. A melee weapon in the form of a spiked ring or tube held in or slipped over the tail
2. A thagomizer

[Arayaz]

Wednesday, Lexember 20

Theme: Speaking, Speech, Speech Acts, Verbal Communication, Spoken Language, Vocalization

Šne’ódn xíš “to scream or shout in fear”

Wéžaš dú’nš xíšqož, mátlnšwaž. “Real men don’t scream, we run away.”
tradition-have man-PL.1ex fear.scream-NEG-HAB / purposeful.run-1plex-HAB

• Contrasts with zúk “to scream or shout in anger.”
• The above sentence implies that the speaker is a "real man" and the listener is not.

[spanick]

Lexember 20

Yemya
batha /bɑtʰɑ/
1. n. “judgment; sentence; declaration”
2. adj. “spoken”
Both from PIE *bʰh₂-tó-s from the root *bʰeh₂ “to speak, say”. (NB: this is going to show up a lot this week, as it’s a very productive root).

Yinše
sææ’æ /sæːʔæ/ v.itr. “to whisper”

[conlang-creature]

Pananarpafeja - Twentieth Day
kallat - announce, bring up*

Poffa bhot poftelegat kallan.
poffa bhot pof-te-legat kalla-n
3SG hold 3SG-GER-want announce-3SG
He announced his desire to hold (marry) her.

*This word essentially involves telling two or more people and the info being important.

[_Just_A_Sketch]

Lexember Day 20
Hɛlcɛso
anxa /ɑnɕɑ/
Verb - to ask, to question

[Iyionaku]

Lexember 21 - Yélian

télervalnel [ˈteːləɾvɐlˌnel] - emergency call, emergency callphone, emergency call number
emergéncia [ˌeːməɾˈgenkɪ̯ɐ] - emergency callphone [only Southern Standard]

Etymology I: télerval "call" + nel "red", literally "red call/red line"
Etymology II: A loan.

USAGE NOTES: In the Kingdom of Shelliania (which administers the Southern Standard), both words are usually put in close juxtaposition. The latter was introduced about fifty years ago so international tourists can understand this vital piece of information as well. This uncommon practice (the Provinces in the North just added the English word Emergency) comes from a general language purism in the South, and even nowadays, the standard language in the South is almost devoid of European loanwords whereas the North is full of it. For example, the word for "fox" is abarociys in the South, but focs in the North. Emergéncia was a rare instance of actually taking a loan word, but only because it was deemed so important and potentially life-saving.

Marnabit: U'télervalnel væ Braveyélian but 3-7-7. Otéi a'macmi yenet? TI-GÈ-GÈ!
[ˈmaɾnɐbɨt | ʉˈteːləɾvɐlˌnel və ˈbraːʋəˌʃeːlɪ̯ɐn bʉt ˈtiː xɛt xɛt ɔ̈ˈtɛɪ̯ ɐˈmakmɨ ˈʃaːnət? ˈtixɛxɛ]
reminder-important | DEF.INAN=emergency_call_number in kingdom-Yélian COP.3SG.INAN three-seven-seven | how DEF.ANIM=horse laugh-3SG? onomatopoetic
Reminder: The emergency call number in the Kingdom of Shelliania is one-seven-seven. How does the horse laugh? Ti-ge-ge!*

* This mnemo is rather hard to translate into English, but the emergency number was specifically taken to be easily memorizable even for smaller children - the numbers 3 and 7 are the only numerals which only consist of one syllable (ti and gèt) and are on opposite sides of the phone keyboard, similar to the American 9-1-1. The sound of a horse is written as igegege in Yélian... you get the idea.

Bonus word:

Yemya

Yinše
sææ’æ /sæːʔæ/ v.itr. “to whisper”

Another good one!
sæʻa [ˈsœːʔɐ] - to whisper