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Khemehekis wrote: ↑

06 May 2020 18:46

Brilliant share! I've never before seen a conlang description that explained how to express discounts in that language.

Glad you appreciated it! I just went back and made some major changes to it if you're interested. Made things a little less inconsistent

𢺺價 (Vã·Gà)- Discounts 𢺺價 is the Ởnh·Vú word for discount and literally means "divide the price". Like in Mandarin, Ởnh·Vú discounts are expressed in a way that is basically the opposite of how they are in English. Rather than saying how much of a price's total was subtracted off the original price,...

What does buit mean? (Kankonian often uses ohos (soul) where IE languages would use "heart".) It has the general meaning of both heart and soul but can also mean feeling or mind. Some common compounds and expressions with it are below: 固𢚸𠌨 (A buit pá) - To wonder about (to have heart towards) 𢚸曰 (B...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑

01 May 2020 07:37

Onset /θp/... Coda /tp/

I wasn't familiar with Palauan at all and what makes this even more interesting is that /p/ on its own is only used in loanwords

身體部分 (Xin·Téy·Bứ·Pun)- Parts of the Body Before listing some of the parts of the body I thought I'd explain the differences between the Ởnh·Vú words for "body" itself -阿身 (A·xí) is the most generic word for body and is the only one not borrowed from Chinese -身體 (Xin·téy) is the word used for "the b...

Basque is terribly unrealistic, I'm afraid. Nobody could ever possibly reliably produce the s̻/s̺ distinction, which the designer doubled down on with corresponding affricates, let alone actually hearing the distinction. Even less realistic when you remember that the entire rest of the phonology is...

Steven Pinker's theory is that some basic words referring to more immediate things, e.g. "here", "this", "me", etc. contain front/high vowels as well and that this gives them primacy, hence why the front-high-vowel syllable occurs first. It's interesting that this largely lines up in German too and...

There are a lot of instances of reduplication in English where the first element contains /ɪ/ and the second contains some other vowel (often /æ/ or /ɑ/), so-called "ablaut reduplication". For example: wishy-washy, mish-mash, bric-a-brac, pitter-patter, flip-flop, chit-chat, hip-hop, etc. Is there ...

He will sting me?

qwed117 wrote: ↑

25 Apr 2020 02:39

*novacula + are?

So something like "I will stab him" or "I will kill him"?

Based on that same etymology, I'm gonna guess "he will shave me"

Is it from this change: nVv -> nv -> inv ?

Ởnh·Vú vs. Indonesian & Tagalog I just recently got through watching Langfocus' new video comparing Indonesian and Tagalog and I was really surprised how many cognates with Ởnh·Vú I could still easily recognize. I've included all of the ones mentioned in the video below. Some of them really highlig...

Does inv from the i and the n switching places? So originally being something like niv or nev?

Copulas Ceruliado had 3 copulas: estar, ser, and passarse. Ester and ser are virtually identical to how they are in Spanish and Portuguese, and in the few cases where the 2 languages differ in regards to the verb it often sides more with Portuguese. Below are the present tense conjugations for each...

So does -òt mark either past infinitive or the perfect infinitive?

Sueco "Swede" and zueco "clog"
Both pronounced exactly the same outside of Spain and I could see people thinking they're related since Sweden is home to träskor

Salmoneus wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2020 01:51

Yes.

Is it a descendent of a form of habeō?

Does -òt mark tense/mood/etc?

Salmoneus wrote: ↑

10 Apr 2020 01:55

shimobaatar wrote: ↑

10 Apr 2020 00:53

Is s- reflexive?

Good guess, but no.

Is it indefinite à la French "on" or Italian "si"?

Is the stem related to invāsiō/invāsus?