The CBB

I guess one thing I avoid is an overly-complex phonology that I myself can't even pronounce. I like the idea of tones, for example, but I doubt I'll ever create a tonal language unless I can really master pronouncing different tones. There's not too much else that I consciously avoid. But it's alway...

Some reptilian words I came up with recently:

Arculese

bántis - snake, serpent
enávos - cobra, viper, adder, type of poisonous snake (which one being referred to varies by dialect) (cf. Lih. hnáwas - water snake)

the majority of conlangs seem to be largely "unfinished", i.e. not at a point where such translations are possible. Boy is that ever true. I have been falling away from the hobby in recent years and I find that sad, but the ongoing and mammoth task that is conlanging tends to push me away...

Thanks for your answers, guys. Very interesting :D This is the kind of hypothetical linguistics I love.

Just a little hypothetical I thought of this morning: The Romance languages derive their words for "liver" from Latin ficatum , meaning "fig-stuffed". Evidently there was some kind of medieval dish called iecur ficatum "fig-stuffed liver". The actual word for liver, iec...

Thanks shimo! [:D] Although I didn't get past Week 3 this year (things just got really busy toward the end of the month to the point where I had little time online in general) it was still fun to participate and make an attempt with a brand new language (it was interesting how creating new vocabular...

18th

tsáwam - I turn

tsaúkar - wheel

tsawéppam - I keep turning, rotate, revolve (-epp forms iterative/frequentative verbs)

17th Simple one for today: yéyam - I go yéyamas Peceléñats "We are going to Betelenya" go-1.PL.PRES Betelenya-ALL The allative ending -ats is a Tamagic innovation, but may be related to the -ze ending found in the Lihmelinyan allative plural (which has been reconstructed as -s-de (plural s...

15th cítyam - I come This verb seems to have its origins in a reduplicated present stem, but this is not a verb class in Tamagic (as it is in Lihmelinyan) and this verb has become part of the -yam class. cf. Arc. tótemi , with same meaning 16th thársām - I stretch (can be intransitive or transitive,...

12th lótsam - I jump, leap "Jump over the stream!" Lots wénwe léci! jump-2.SG.IMPER across stream-LOC cf. Lih. ledían "stream" 13th sérkšām - I touch, tap, hit, feel (all-purpose "physical contact" verb). Don't touch! Ki serkš! prohib. part. touch-2.SG.IMPER for the pro...

11th thalp - hammer, mallet This is a neuter thematic noun. Neuter thematics have lost their *-(thematic vowel)(nasal) nominative singular ending and exhibit the bare stem just like any other neuter. I like to think this word is of onomatopoeic origin. It has no parallels in Lihmelinyan or Arculese.

9th fletéssar - chair (from flétam - "I sit") fletéssari flétam "I am sitting in the chair" (this is about the level of sentence I am able to construct right now lol) 10th yunákam - I cook preview of verbal conjugation: yunáks - you cook yunákt - he/she/it cooks yunákamas - we c...

Sorry I'm late to the party but I'd been debating whether to use a previously-introduced conlang or use this as an opportunity to introduce a new language like I did last year with Arculese. I've opted for the latter and will be using this Lexember to introduce Tamagic, a heretofore unseen conlang o...

^That sounds like a good idea, though for those of us with "medieval" conlangs, we will have to adapt the theme to refer to preindustrial business and household practices. [:)] I tend to focus too much on nouns, so it might be nice to have a verbs-only week (perhaps with a category, like m...

^Ah, thanks. I do remember reading something about it in Sihler, so I looked it up. He essentially says what you said. "-at- somehow continues -n-". There's a theory that it might have something to do with participle forms in -nt- but the connection between those and the n-stem nouns is no...

For the Ancient Greek noun ὕδωρ (hýdōr) "water", why is the oblique stem ὕδατ- (hýdat-)? Where does that -at- come from?

Ah, okay, that makes more sense.

I'm studying Latin gerunds. Wictionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Latin_gerunds says: 'The gerund is typically used without an object in Latin. When an object of the gerund is included, the gerundive is used in place of the gerund and given an ending that agrees with the object noun.' ...

Been listening to a lot of J-pop. Japanese is still the most euphonic language to me. And I love hearing the alveolar trill in Japanese (rare as it is). Something about it.

Man, many of you guys are another level from me. The amount of work and detail that goes into making your conlangs and conworlds truly something unique is staggering. Me, I'm just like "here's a conlang that's a lot like IE" and "here's a con-nation that looks kinda like California an...