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Another response to shimo [:P] Iluhsa immediately captured my attention at the beginning of last month, and I'm so glad to be able to take the time now to go back and more properly look over everything you've posted about it. I'm absolutely a fan. […] Silvish is unquestionably among my favorite a po...

Axthieb wrote: ↑08 Jan 2021 22:47I think the noteworthy /tst/ clusters are not in the same syllable here. [ˈpladzdo] seems like [ˈpladz.do], which is essential, because that seems very pronounceable to me.

English does put /tst/ in a single syllable, with verbs that end in /ts/. Take "spritzed" and "blitzed" for example.

31 lexembre - Iluhsa A few minutes late, here are some words on ending and beginning: bénita [ˈbenita] v - begin (sth); open (sth) (< béniti "opening" + -a , verbalizer) hòum [ˈhɔu̯m] v - begin (middle voice) (< *paum ) surti [ˈsurti] v - end, finish, come to an end (< surza + -ti , inchoative) sur...

I fell off the wagon there for a bit. Well, have eight nine days' worth of words! 22 lexembre - Iluhsa arši [ˈarʃi] n - moon (< *arkʷe ) Kuruivónta hindaþina aršai landi. [kuru̯iˈvonta hinˈdaθina ˈarʃai̯ ˈlandi] kóru-évónta hindaþin-a arš<a>i landi shine_on-IPV.3S milk_white-ERG moon<ERG> house The ...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020 09:09Here's a holiday quiz for all of you. Which Christmas carol reverses the animacy hierarchy for all the verses except the last?

"Do You Hear What I Hear?" with its "Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy" and such.

P.S.: Still have no idea how I can embed images in a post thus the link instead. Hey there! I am not able to comment on your language movements, but I can help with the image. The img tags require a URL pointing directly to an image file; what you have put between the tags links to a OneDrive inter...

Taġuivituk undoġ kintónuora bódora andéhus. [taŋu̯iˈvituk ˈundoŋ kinˈtonu̯ora ˈbodora anˈdehus] taġu-évit-k und-òġ ként-ónu-òu-za bód-òu-za andi-hus see-PFV-1S.NOM egg.PAUC-GEN five-twenty_eight-DAT-PRED fourteen-DAT-PRED nine-and I saw one hundred sixty-three eggs. (declension example, dative) Did...

21 lexembre - Iluhsa Building on what I said yesterday about Iluhsa, I decided on the cardinal numbers. I'm doing a combination of base-14 and base-28. The numbers 1-4 behave mainly like adjectives in that the noun they modify is the head of the phrase. In contrast, higher numbers are more noun‑y, ...

20 lexembre - Iluhsa Not much on Iluhsa for today. Related to this week's theme, I imagine the speakers have or had a focus on the moon. I've decided the language should have a base-14 number system because that's roughly half the number of days in the sidereal month, and the moon's been on my mind...

19 lexembre - Iluhsa ila [ˈila] v - to speak (< *fil "word" + *-a , dynamic verb suffix) iluhsa [iˈluhsa] n/adj - Iluhsa; language (< *filəpza < *fil + *-əpza "collection") lód [ˈlod] n - word, message (< *lod "message") Z ileluhsa ivóntar? [zileluhsai̯ˈvontar] zé-ila-iluh-sa-évónta-r INT-speak-ilu...

:eng: verbiage :eng: verb "Verb" of course comes from Latin verbum . "Verbiage" was derived from the Middle French verb verbier/verboier "to trill, warble", itself a derivation of Picard dialect werbler "to sing expressively, trill", which is the origin of English "warble". So "verbiage" has more to...

18 lexembre - Iluhsa For today, I have a word dealing with food. I also have some conjunctions and a negative morpheme, which technically deal in relationships (between words, with the truth [:P] ). hindi [ˈhindi] n - milk (< *pinte ) -hus [hus] conj - and; noun-phrase conjunction (< *-pus ) sa [ˈs...

17 lexembre - Iluhsa héinin [ˈhei̯nin] n - child; offspring or young human (irregular PL: heiniézza ; < *poine "birth" + *-en "product of") Koubžimzar heiniénara . [kou̯bˈʒimzar hei̯ˈni̯enara] kòub-žim-za-r heinién-a-za love.ABS-1S.GEN-PRED-COP children-ERG-PRED I love my children. I stumbled acros...

16 lexembre - Iluhsa I spent today breaking my brain over the passive voice in a language whose nouns somewhat recently developed ergative case marking while the rest of the language stayed nominative-accusative. Here's what I wrote: The passive voice is communicated in one of two ways: by adding t...

15 lexembre - Iluhsa méa [ˈmea] v - to please (< *meifa ) miaxazza [mi̯aˈxazza] n/adj - happiness, pleasure; happy ( miaxan- ; < méaxa "be pleased" + -azza , stative deverbal) kað [ˈkað] n - water (< *kʷad + *-əd , no-longer-productive nominalizer) Órži miaxana muðai libetkumòbeni kað. [ˈorʒi ˈmi̯a...

13 lexembre - Iluhsa tavani [ˈtavani] n - father (suppletive stem: bab- ; < *tabbane , *babə ) 14 lexembre suġnara [ˈsuŋnara] n/adj - (romantic/sexual) love (< *souk "to pursue" + *-ənaza , deverbal) sóktis [ˈsoktis] v - to pursue, follow (< *souk + *-tis , intensive) suktisata [sukˈtisata] v - to ...

12 lexembre - Iluhsa kalli [ˈkalli] n - flower (< kʷarəl ) órži [ˈorʒi] v - drink (< ordʷe ) uržéhalu [urˈʒehalu] v - water, give water to an animal (< órži + -halu , causative) Contrasting with uržéhalu is watering plants; in that case, one says kad , which debuted on Lexember 9 . Zikadri kallira?...

11 lexembre - Iluhsa baþi [ˈbaθi] n - sheep (suppletive PL: biznara ; < *bautte , *beizənaza ) baþkói [baθˈkoi̯] n - cloud (< baþi + -kói diminutive) biznara [ˈbiznara] n/adj - herd; livestock (< *beizənaza ) Since this language is supposed to have noun incorporation, might as well test it out: Tus...

I'm not going to engage with... all that. I just think I should point out that this is not a great way to respond to feedback. If you feel attacked by feedback, maybe you should be writing all this in your journal. Good luck, and goodbye. Constructive feedback isn't usually a list of all the decisi...

10 lexembre - Iluhsa zèiti [ˈzɛi̯.ti] n - olive (< *zaite ) zeitézza [zei̯ˈtezza] n/adj - olive oil (< *zaite + *-enza "product of") Ziburórmi zeitišimza ? [zibuˈrormi zei̯tiˈʃimza] zé-buróm-r zèit-i<šim>ra INT-eat.PFT-2S.NOM olive-PL.ABS<1S.GEN> Did you eat my olives? I forgot to post yesterday, b...