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by Pabappa
24 Dec 2023 09:31
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

Play vap , a political party mi ~ miva / punu , a nation yafu , an army matu , a corporation. These are the basic four building blocks used in many words for political entities. They are seen as a set, in which each can contain any of the others, so the words compound freely. For example, a vapiyafu...
by Pabappa
23 Dec 2023 16:46
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

MRCA ndəha "to change someone's opinion; to persuade". This would lead to a theoretical Play descendant morpheme tase , but Im not willing to extrapolate the meaning 4,500 years with no change, so for the time being, this word exists only in the MRCA. I'm working with it, though, and it co...
by Pabappa
22 Dec 2023 17:43
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

Play ŋaupe to vote (in an election), to turn one's opinion into an action. The MRCA etymology I have listed is ŋaku "coat, covering" but I suspect I lost track of a homophone somewhere ... this is actually not a new word, but a word I rescued from a section of my dictionary that I didnt do...
by Pabappa
21 Dec 2023 14:31
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

Play

žeube "to sing", from an MRCA word guli that also provides words for other things such as stripes and facial features.

Still working on other things but the power outage really disrupted my schedule.
by Pabappa
20 Dec 2023 16:16
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

there was a power outage and im still getting things back together. all i have for today is Play vipabe "sentence", as in grammar, from MRCA li hipa plus a classifier suffix.
by Pabappa
18 Dec 2023 12:51
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

Play bapapupa a treaty, a document of alliance. This refers to a tangible object; if the agreement is verbal it is a bapapupe . First, a note on phonetics ... Play, like many other languages in its family, features bilabial consonants as the most frequent by far in its small inventory. And unlike so...
by Pabappa
17 Dec 2023 11:13
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

Thanks for the comments, as always. I should be able to participate more fully this week. Play The name of any language in Play can be formed by suffixing a noun with the speech noun classifier suffix -be . Thus the name of the Play language can be Patabe , as the primary Play word for play is pata ...
by Pabappa
15 Dec 2023 15:27
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

ŋamba "clam", from MRCA ŋa ŋe ŋāmba "mussel", from MRCA ŋuŋi In the sea these would have the -pa classifier suffix, but it becomes -ba (handheld) once inside the kitchen. Despite the resemblance in form and meaning, these aren't cognates and I have no plans to make them into cog...
by Pabappa
14 Dec 2023 21:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

šepi , any bad smell. Most commonly used for human waste, but can be used by comparison for other things, particularly things that have gone bad or smell bad when they're not expected to. From MRCA higi ḳugi , where ḳ spells a velar ejective, a common sound that nonetheless I don't think I've used ...
by Pabappa
13 Dec 2023 17:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

Play pāptubataba , a poetic word for candy. The /pāptu/ part comes from a MRCA phrase wom ka ndwu , which came to mean pine sap, though as with many other examples here it wasn't a set phrase in the parent language and the word order requires the third word to have been added much later than the fir...
by Pabappa
12 Dec 2023 11:36
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

For now, all I have to share is Play putaši "spice", from MRCA pum twohil "fire in small bits" (though likely not a set phrase at the time). putaši looks like "potash" or "potassium." Easter egg or coincidence? Coincidence. All my conlangs are a priori apart ...
by Pabappa
11 Dec 2023 15:41
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

Im going to struggle with this week as well, as cooking is really not well-developed in my writing. In some aspects this reflects a real cultural difference, but I'm still lacking even some words for very basic concepts. For now, all I have to share is Play putaši "spice", from MRCA pum tw...
by Pabappa
07 Dec 2023 10:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

Play (days 5 and 6) tūiba and kataba , both words for objects that can be repurposed as weapons. A tūiba denotes any ordinary handheld object whose primary use is not dangerous, .... something that would be unreasonable to prohibit access to outside a preschool or a prison. A kataba is an object rec...
by Pabappa
06 Dec 2023 15:56
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

Play (day 4) tapaba , a gemstone. This is more backward progress here, as I had been carrying for many years a set of words for different gemstones, inspired by childhood knowledge of birthstones (for astrology) and by a verse in the Bible. But I realized it was unlikely for a society like the Playe...
by Pabappa
04 Dec 2023 18:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

a reply to the above post from shimobaatar: Very interesting! Does nūs mean "two"? Also, if I might ask, is the name that you use for this language actually the English word "play", or does it just happen to be spelled the same? Yes, all of my recent projects are given English na...
by Pabappa
02 Dec 2023 14:03
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

Play nušam "second (place); half". The syncresis of ordinal numbers and fractional numbers, just like English has from third place on, is intentional, though I don't remember right now whether I came to it on my own or if I decided that the English system made enough logical sense that I d...
by Pabappa
01 Dec 2023 12:27
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13838

Re: Lexember 2023

Play pūmna , a twin; one of a set of twins. Its etymology in MRCA (the parent language of Play and all its known relatives) was pum ŋana , to share a crib. The dual form of this word is pūmnabup , which is regular, and refers to a set of two twins born together. This is separate from saying pūmna nū...
by Pabappa
09 Nov 2021 20:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347950

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

i would analyze the Lithuanian system as á ~ áa ~ aá. Makes more sense that way and also explains why diphthongs can only take the rising or falling tones, never a simple high tone. Since there's only one marked vowel in each word, it makes no difference if we think of it as a tone or a stress. Kind...
by Pabappa
05 Nov 2021 19:41
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1110
Views: 282932

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

σκῶρ ~ σκᾰτός whoa .... i had no idea those two words were even related, let alone that they were the same word. the "-mentum" theory makes sense to me though ..... see for example how many words ending in -ma have plurals in -mata, .... and how there's a different alternation between -ma...
by Pabappa
04 Nov 2021 14:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Fun phonemic contrasts?
Replies: 12
Views: 1971

Re: Fun phonemic contrasts?

which reminds me of the three-way split between stops in Korean, the three-way length contrasts for both vowels and consonants in some Uralic languages, and Americanist phonetic notation's "half-voiced" series, which may be a relic of an earlier age in which we didn't quite understand the ...