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“Rush job”

“Bootleg”

“Trite”

Tokäda
[tokəˈða]
To sharpen
To prepare/make ready

“Drained, depleted”

“Depressed”

“Sleep paralysis demon”

“Mind control (sci-fi)”

“Brain”

“Horror (genre)”

“To wake someone up suddenly; to snap someone out of”

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Hükzu
[ˈxʊksu]
“spear”

Happy Lexember!

Right now I’m in a predicament where I recently abandoned my first conworld, Navia, and I’m currently working on a conlang originally set in that world, & I’ve been in a bit of a conworlding slump so I haven’t done enough work on my new conworld idea to transfer the language. More on topic, Navi...

My protolang had a 3-way distinction between dual, paucal, & plural. In the modern language, this shifted: dual>paucal, paucal>plural, & plural>superplural. I thought it would be cool if the plural pronouns somehow gained a 4-way distinction: dual, paucal, plural & superplural, but I’m n...

What would the Kankonians call monkey-foxes/yinrih? "Monkey-fox" would probably be expressed in Kankonian as zaturafiti ( zatura , monkey + fiti , fox). Then they could also borrow "yinrih" as yinrihh . Except the accent would be on the second syllable. HH is pronounced /ħ/. hmm...

I think the most important ones to decide are degree of synthesis, any kind of mandatory inflection (ie there is no neutral form), head/dependent marking, and which word classes your language has a strong tendency towards.

While I’m nothing but low-life good-for-nothing scrapper

I think this is entirely possible, as long as you don’t make your function words too long.

I get notified whenever there’s a new post to a thread I’ve posted on, so no need to quote me. Also no worries, your language is one of my favorites, and I think one of the favorites on the board.