Guess the Word in Romlangs 2
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Does it refer to a place? If not, does it refer to food?
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Does it refer to a type of fantasy creature? You said a person was close.
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It does indeed refer to a mythological/folkloric entity or creature.
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Is it cheating to use Wikipedia? :P
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I don't feel like it's "cheating" to use Wikipedia. I mean, you can't just search for cuayexoñas and automatically find out what it means, and even if you could, that would be on me for making the word too similar to something in a natural Romance language. In any case, I did not expect this round to last three months, so I'm happy to acknowledge that you've reached the correct answer, regardless of which websites helped you get there.
The translation I had in mind was "bogeyman", but yes, cuayexoñas is based off of words like sacamantecas, sacamanteigas, and sacaúntos in Spanish and Galician. I thought that something like sacamantaigas or sacaúnchos would be too easy, so I decided to use different words for "to take, to extract" and "fat, lard".
I felt bad about not being able to answer several questions as clearly and straightforwardly as I would have ideally liked this round, so now that I don't have to worry about accidentally giving too much away, hopefully I can explain myself a bit better:
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If qwed117 would like to pass, I'd give the next turn to VaptuantaDoi for having been the first to guess that cuaye- derives from colligō.
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Might wanna ping them somehowshimobaatar wrote: ↑08 Feb 2022 12:36 If qwed117 would like to pass, I'd give the next turn to VaptuantaDoi for having been the first to guess that cuaye- derives from colligō.
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It looks like qwed's decided to pass*, so here's a word.
Language: Vissard
Word: chaffesagues
IPA: [saˈfaɡ]
This might end up being really easy, although bear in mind that nothing in either of the Vissard threads is relevant/up to date.
*If they're not, I'd be happy to surrender the turn.
Language: Vissard
Word: chaffesagues
IPA: [saˈfaɡ]
This might end up being really easy, although bear in mind that nothing in either of the Vissard threads is relevant/up to date.
*If they're not, I'd be happy to surrender the turn.
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Is it a noun?
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Is it a Spanish-style "verb + plural noun" compound (e.g, sacapuntas, rascacielos, rompecabezas)?
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Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs 2
Titus Flavius wrote: ↑02 Mar 2022 22:29 Is it a Spanish-style "verb + plural noun" compound (e.g, sacapuntas, rascacielos, rompecabezas)?
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Are the verb and the noun that make up this compound chaffe- and -sagues, respectively?
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shimobaatar wrote: ↑03 Mar 2022 23:57 Are the verb and the noun that make up this compound chaffe- and -sagues, respectively?
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Did chaffe begin with CA- in Latin?
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