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by Zekoslav
29 Oct 2019 16:01
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2043855

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Did you mean a chain shift, /l/ > /ɫ/, then /ʎ/ > /l/? That's more than realistic, as well as /ɲ/ > /j/ after the chain shift. Phase 1 happened in Polish, and phase 2 happened in Romanian.
by Zekoslav
28 Oct 2019 09:10
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: A soun incàra vîv - Emilian lessons v2
Replies: 58
Views: 20908

Re: A soun incàra vîv - Emilian lessons v2

However, this would not explain why Emilian also has an /i/ suffix, which certainly comes from Latin /as/ through /ai/. So maybe at some point this sound took two different paths at the same time? Hmm, maybe a similar divergence to the one Italian had, which led Latin -as (first-conjugation second-...
by Zekoslav
25 Oct 2019 16:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Tewanian languages - a subfamily of Indo-European
Replies: 10
Views: 3585

Re: Tewanian languages - a subfamily of Indo-European

Sound changes from PIE 1. Consonants 1. PIE voiced aspirates become unaspirated and merge with voiced unaspirates. bʰ dʰ ǵʰ gʰ gʷʰ > b d ǵ g gʷ / _ This happens after Lachmann's law, by which voiced unaspirates, but not voiced aspirates, lengthen the preceding vowel when they undergo devoicing. 2. ...
by Zekoslav
25 Oct 2019 10:37
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317730

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Why are the person personal pronouns in Indo-European suppletive (with the exception of the 2nd singular)? Why *eǵoH as well as *mé ? Are there are any theories out there? Any books on IE that postulate on this? I've just always been curious about it. I think I read in one source (though I can't re...
by Zekoslav
25 Oct 2019 10:19
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: English Orthography Reform
Replies: 402
Views: 197117

Re: English Orthography Reform

Do you think reforming English spelling to be both accurately etymological (e.g. stone becomes stoan because it derives from Old English stān and the silent e isn't etymological) and regular enough to be able to make out a word's pronunciation from it's spelling (so there's no more things such as be...
by Zekoslav
19 Oct 2019 19:07
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1938
Views: 656260

Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

This summertime weakening of westerlies can have interesting consequence, such as mediterranean climate expanding to Ireland and England... We basically have that in North America, where even into southwestern Canada the summer is much drier than the winter. Washington & Oregon are remarkably d...
by Zekoslav
19 Oct 2019 15:59
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1938
Views: 656260

Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

After having read more about wind patterns in hothouse worlds, I've come to the conclusion that they're unknown. There are mutliple contradictory models! Most people agree that tropics expand, while concerning polar circles some suggest that they expand and others that they contract. If expansion is...
by Zekoslav
16 Oct 2019 15:26
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492479

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

Since I haven't done any proper work on my Romlangs' vocabulary and as a consequence don't have any interesting words (well, I got an idea for one but I'm not sure if I'll stick to it), I'll pass my turn and let you decide who will continue.
by Zekoslav
16 Oct 2019 15:18
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492479

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

Jackk wrote: 16 Oct 2019 15:12
Zekoslav wrote: 16 Oct 2019 15:00 Make a race/competition fair? I must admit I'm at loss here. May I get a hint?
Hint:
Spoiler:
This is something the contestants might do. Sometimes there are special rules for when this happens.
This sounds like end a race/competition with a draw.
by Zekoslav
16 Oct 2019 15:00
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492479

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

Make a race/competition fair? I must admit I'm at loss here. May I get a hint?
by Zekoslav
16 Oct 2019 14:32
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492479

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

race? [:D] (that seems to be the original meaning!) [tick] Woo! [:D] "race, competition, contest" is the main semantic range of cursus . OK so 'cors' is supposed to mean "race, competition, contest", and 'pareïr' is more "equalize" than "compare". Maybe it me...
by Zekoslav
16 Oct 2019 13:52
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492479

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

race? [:D] (that seems to be the original meaning!)
by Zekoslav
16 Oct 2019 13:42
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492479

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

Jackk wrote: 16 Oct 2019 13:30
Zekoslav wrote: 16 Oct 2019 13:28 Now I'm just guessing wildly... does it have to do with navigation? "adjust course" maybe?
[cross] Not navigation, no.
Does it mean "lesson"?
by Zekoslav
16 Oct 2019 13:28
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492479

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

Is it closer to English course in meaning? Like progression or maybe waterway? There is a meaning of "course" quite close to one of cors 's senses, but I wouldn't say it's the primary sense of either. Now I'm just guessing wildly... does it have to do with navigation? "adjust course&...
by Zekoslav
16 Oct 2019 12:03
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492479

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

Is it closer to English course in meaning? Like progression or maybe waterway?
by Zekoslav
16 Oct 2019 12:01
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Zeko-Romance development thread
Replies: 21
Views: 7396

Re: Zeko-Romance development thread

Three new ideas: 1. I'm preserving hic , haec , hoc . It will be reinforced with *ECCU < ecce eum and become first an anaphoric pronoun with no spatial deixis, later the definite article. This will have two important consequences: 1. provide a pronominal accusative ending in /n/ instead of the usual...
by Zekoslav
16 Oct 2019 11:48
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492479

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

Not being a native English speaker may get the best of me since my wording may be inexact... assuming cors still means something like 'way', does it mean "to level a road"? Reminds me of what John the Baptist says in the Gospels but it may have a more physical sense here, ofc.
by Zekoslav
16 Oct 2019 10:07
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492479

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

Oh, I missed the bit about cursus above. Is the verb derived from a noun? [cross] No, an adjective. Makes sense considering the verb ends in - ir (productive ending for deadjectival verbs in Romance). Am I correct in assuming that it's derived simply by adding - ir , making pare - the stem? If so, ...
by Zekoslav
16 Oct 2019 09:41
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: English Orthography Reform
Replies: 402
Views: 197117

Re: If English used diacritics

I'd reform English spelling to be consistently and accurately etymological, and use diacritics to take care of various inconsistent shortenings and lengthenings which have, to the horror of Neogrammarians, appeared during the history of English. This happens to be a horribly difficult task and I ad...
by Zekoslav
16 Oct 2019 09:37
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492479

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

Oh, I missed the bit about cursus above. Is the verb derived from a noun? [cross] No, an adjective. Makes sense considering the verb ends in - ir (productive ending for deadjectival verbs in Romance). Am I correct in assuming that it's derived simply by adding - ir , making pare - the stem? If so, ...