New and improved! Now 166.67% more diabolical than 666!
Kankonian's lexicon has reached 66,666 words!
Today I finished working on the fiction-within-fiction creatures from the Kankonian science fiction movie "The World Aside". While adding those words, I passed the 66,666-word mark with amopovth, the Kankonian spelling of "amopodh". The amopodh is a short bush covered with psychotropic club-like protrusions containing a drug called takitaki, which allow the thofeni (the alien sapients in the film) to get high. The Kankonians use VTH, and the Romanization DH, for the edh sound in the Pithasayi language, which is a phoneme not found in Kankonian (so there's no letter for it in the Kankonian alphabet). Its irregular plural amopovthi (LIE: amopodhi) follows the pluralization rules of Pithasayi.
I am now officially two-thirds of the way to sextuple digits (100,000 words). Wish me well!
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 28 Oct 2020 07:50
by DesEsseintes
Khemehekis wrote: ↑28 Oct 2020 06:43
New and improved! Now 166.67% more diabolical than 666!
Kankonian's lexicon has reached 66,666 words!
Today I finished working on the fiction-within-fiction creatures from the Kankonian science fiction movie "The World Aside". While adding those words, I passed the 66,666-word mark with amopovth, the Kankonian spelling of "amopodh". The amopodh is a short bush covered with psychotropic club-like protrusions containing a drug called takitaki, which allow the thofeni (the alien sapients in the film) to get high. The Kankonians use VTH, and the Romanization DH, for the edh sound in the Pithasayi language, which is a phoneme not found in Kankonian (so there's no letter for it in the Kankonian alphabet). Its irregular plural amopovthi (LIE: amopodhi) follows the pluralization rules of Pithasayi.
I am now officially two-thirds of the way to sextuple digits (100,000 words). Wish me well!
Congratulations!
How long did it get you to get from 33,333 to 66,666? And would you estimate that it will take you a similar amount of time to reach 100,000?
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 28 Oct 2020 08:26
by Khemehekis
DesEsseintes wrote: ↑28 Oct 2020 07:50
Congratulations!
Thanks!
How long did it get you to get from 33,333 to 66,666? And would you estimate that it will take you a similar amount of time to reach 100,000?
Word #33,333 was reached on November 18, 2012. So 7 years, 11 months, and 9 days.
If I reach #100,000 at the same pace, the date will be October 6, 2028. (Hey, that means I'll finish in the year in which Inner Bruise is set!)
But I should receive the word lists and corpus data I need long before that date. That will make for an explosion of word-creation and lexical gap-filling.
Plus, once the Landau Core Vocabulary is finished, I'll be able to add to the lexica of many of my other conlangs and call them complete. I'll then be able to work on astronomy and calendars, biology and ethnobiology, politics and history (including legal documents!), and stories to write for all the concultures that will contribute culture-specific loanwords to Kankonian, and get around to adding all those animal and plant words from other planets into my Kankonian dictionary, and my lexicon will balloon in size.
(FUN FACT: I'm actually keeping a centralized list of the taxa and species of various planets and bioswaths, and each modernized, spacefaring, interplanetarized conlang (the conlangs like Kankonian, Shaleyan, Tentan, Quispe, Achel, Javarti, Bodusian, etc.) will receive words for all of these species and higher taxa. I'm considering doing the same thing with foods, sports/games, music genres, and maybe even religions. Here's the list as I've worked on it so far (I'm limiting myself to 200 human bioswath species):
Spoiler:
UNIVERSAL WORDS (19)
virus
bacteria
seaweed
mushroom
plant
bush
flower
tree
bulb
berry
herb
weed
vine
animal
beast
marine animal
worm
alien
monster
MYTHICAL (10)
dragon
unicorn
fairy
ogre
giant
goblin
mermaid
phoenix
werewolf
little person
HUMAN BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (9)
grass
grain
bug
insect
fish
amphibian
reptile
bird
mammal
Khemehekis wrote: ↑28 Oct 2020 06:43Kankonian's lexicon has reached 66,666 words!
Satan must love your conlang now.
Yeah, that was the first thing I thought. But when I reach 67,500 words, I'll be out of the woods (does that mean the Devil was chopping down trees to chase me?)
I mean, how many conlangs have that many words? Yours may be the first in all of conlanging history!?
Actually, Kankonian is still surpassed by four other conlangs:
66,666 Kankonian - James Landau; spoken on the planet Kankonia in the Lehola Galaxy
some 75,000 Neo - Arturo Alfandari; Euroclone
77,000 Esperanto - Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof; auxlang and the world's most successful conlang
over 83,000 xuxuxi - John Cowan; based on the same principles as Classical Yiklamu
91,591 Classical Yiklamu - Mark P. Line; engelang with computer-generated vocabulary based on WordNet and no derivation
As mentioned above, xuxuxi and Classical Yiklamu are computer-generated matchups of computer-generated words to WordNet entries, so those conlangers didn't actually create words, and you could argue that they don't count.
As to which conlanger created the most words across ALL his/her conlangs? Not Zamenhof, for thousands of Esperanto words were created after his time. Arturo Alfandari apparently came up with all the Neo words himself, though. It'll take some time before I surpass Alfandari in the number of words I've created.
The prize for word-creating likely goes to Arne Arotnow. Arotnow created 46,950 words for EDA/Edanic, a Euroclone based on Italian, and another 51,831 in Vedanic, a reform of Edanic. That makes a staggering 98,781 words!
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 06 Dec 2020 01:28
by Khemehekis
I guess there are no mentions in this thread of Ciladian reaching 2,000 words. Oh, well, I counted now and it has 2,057 entries in the Ciladian-English dictionary!
I have no idea what word #2,000 was, but the most recently added word is tyumbyun, meaning "hospitality". It comes from tyum, meaning host/hostess, and -byun, a suffix that means "the state of being a/an . . ." (father -> paternity, etc.)
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 25 Dec 2020 07:48
by Khemehekis
I hope to reach 67,500 words by the end of the year. That means that over the next week, I have to create an average of 25 new words a day.
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 30 Dec 2020 06:21
by Khemehekis
I reached my goal!
As of December 29, Kankonian has just reached 67,500 words.
Word #67,500 was holtzehimezis, meaning "quadrilingual" (the noun) or "tetraglot" (hol, four + tzehimez, language + -is, suffix for a person).
At the end of the year, I'll share with all of you some of the other new words I added trying to reach my 67,500 goal.
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 31 Dec 2020 20:20
by prettydragoon
At least by CWS reckoning, Rireinutire has reached the rather odd milestone of 13,579 words. Word #13,579 was
kototaran. IN legume
which is a simple tatpurusha from koto 'pod' + tara 'plant'.
See? Not every Rireinutire lexeme has ten million glosses in Human!
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 01 Jan 2021 04:31
by eldin raigmore
prettydragoon wrote: ↑31 Dec 2020 20:20
....
which is a simple tatpurusha from koto 'pod' + tara 'plant'.
....
How many Smskrta loan words does Finnish have?
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 01 Jan 2021 04:43
by Khemehekis
Ooh, I didn't even think of doing #13,579! I suppose we could do word #24,680 in our conlangs too!
prettydragoon wrote: ↑31 Dec 2020 20:20
....
which is a simple tatpurusha from koto 'pod' + tara 'plant'.
....
How many Smskrta loan words does Finnish have?
At least a hundred.
I mean, sata '(one) hundred'. Probably some others too.
Khemehekis wrote: ↑01 Jan 2021 04:43
Ooh, I didn't even think of doing #13,579! I suppose we could do word #24,680 in our conlangs too!
Even better!
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 01 Jan 2021 21:49
by Khemehekis
Over the last seven days of 2020, I created over 200 new words. Here are some of the concepts Kankonian now has a word for. Some of these (such as "troubadour" and "mandolin") are words I had been considering for a long time, but finally decided to add to Kankonian last week.
phoroish dres: western lowland gorilla (lit. "common gorilla") phoroish wudani: mountain gorilla (lit. "montane gorilla") phoroish yuatz: eastern lowland gorilla (lit. "giant gorilla") bungatzanga Lipsitik: Bornean orangutan (lit. "Lipsitic orangutan", Lipsit being a former nation on Kankonia in the days before one-world government) grouokh: willing to eat anything grouokhpeidan: panphagia (grouokh + peidan, dinosaur) maglimez dres: tschego, central chimpanzee (lit. "common chimpanzee") vulante: conversant (open to having conversations with people) rubud: volante (musical direction) (borrowed from the Ciladian word rubud, swift (bird)) vyad: direction (in music) (borrowed from Ciladian bhyad, direction, instruction) kyutaskungirun: stage direction (borrowing from Ciladian: kyutas: drama; play + kungirun: note (kungir, to mention + -un, suffix that turns a verb into a noun meaning "something that is [verb]ed")) swilk: to go on (of a light or star) koulk: to go off, to go out (of a light or star) perstuvif: well-read (per, to read + stuvif, accomplished) zentapios na em imas: extinction debt (lit. "three-imis extinction"; an imis is the equivalent of a second, and "shmen em imas kaluk ye" (count three imas before) is an idiom meaning to jump the gun) nataro: bucket hat, fisherman's hat, session hat, Reni hat dastindrass: sadboi (after Dastindrass, an ancient Kankonian artist who was inspired by his sadness over relationships) dastelshid: sadboi hours (portmanteau of dastindrass and detelshid, shift) bein prin: softboi (lit. "new boy") gwukhdi: heavy (of a head) holbas: head (of nail, screw or rivet) guzhumholbas: cuphead (guzhum, dome + holbas) bapi-khiridi: rubber hose (animation style) (bapi, limb + khiridi, vine) helbutekh: to share cookies with (hel, with + butekh, cookie, biscuit) bohulbholbas: rivethead (head of a rivet) (bohulb, rivet + holbas) studuzis: rivethead (person who works on an automotive assembly line) (studuz az tekt, assembly line + -is, suffix for a person) nipowub: trochanter tshiuspesh: coxa (tshiu, to attach + spesh, part, piece) travoizhi: troubadour, jongleur adlakess: to elevate (technology can ~ the community) (ad-, prefix for to/for + lakess, pedestal) ghalaimshai*ap: doughnut hole (ghalaim, doughnut + shai*ap, ball) zastantzeria (zasto for short): slambook (zastantzas, gossip + -eria, suffix for collection of) dworf: dwarf (fantasy species) (English borrowing) nienepheli: geometric (based on abstract shapes) (nien, abstract + ephel, shape + -i, adjective-forming suffix) eslela: nymph (female nature spirit) menehune: menehune (Hawaiian borrowing) fegatshiu: hamadryad (wood-nymph) (fega, tree + tshiu) thoertzu: dryad drau: dark elf, drow (English borrowing) srinaud: naiad (nymph who presided over fresh water) ksiphru: charry (of wine) hatampf: to laugh in the face of turkviadorumphi: wrongful imprisonment (turkvi, evil + adorumphi, to imprison; imprisonment) gnangouf X: to hump X's leg posksahalba: band camp (posk, band + sahalba, day camp) dulieyis: band geek, orch-dork (duliei, symphonic band + -is) heladamalis: bunkmate (hel + adamales, bedroom + -is) tzethyuv: ptomaine bopf: severed paw moupfash: the severed tail of a rabbit, said to have magical powers hei lawu or hei lau: yoo hoo lekhuvyekhesvyekhes: aatheist (made from Ciladian roots: Lekhu, Leho, God + bhyekh, to deny; denial + -es, agent noun suffix + bhyekh + -es) mevzafyahali: New Atheist (mevzafi, atheist + yahal, light + -i; based on lehoyahali, evangelical) vazartnaskel: hierarchy of needs (vazart, need + naskel, pyramid) naskelsund: to sacrifice liberty for security (naskel + sund, base (of a building)) lasussaphi: liberty-loving, freedom-loving (made of Ciladian roots: lasus, liberty, freedom + saph, to love + -i) lasustyuph: eleutherophobia (made of Ciladian roots: lasus + tyuph, fear) sekhustyuph: pediculophobia, phthirophobia (made of Ciladian roots: sekhus, louse + tyuph) dziperia: pediculosis (dzipu, louse + -eria, suffix to make an abstract noun out of a concrete word) dziperis: person with lice (dziperia + -is) syamabtyuph: glossophobia (made of Ciladian roots: syamab, oratory, rhetoric + tyuph) tudesshamtyuph: xenoglossophobia (made of Ciladian roots: tudes, foreign + sham, language + tyuph) ashtyuph: anthropophobia (made of Ciladian roots: ash, person + tyuph) estemebopat: gamergate (portmanteau of estemyul, sex + mebopat, worker (insect)) tegmisk: carabiner oorglobavan: arthrodire (oor, like, as + globavan, Dunkleosteus) ziyen-sikul: arthrosis (ziyen, problem + sikul, joint) robigyol: rheumatic fever phitki: automatic (weapon) oiriklombi: year-end, end-of-year (~ goal) (oiri, year + klombos, to leave; close + -i) dunoyeid-bwolwu: visible minority (dunoyeid, minority + bwolwu, eyes) dunoyeid-mebwolwu: invisible minority (dunoyeid; me-, negative prefix + bwolwu) hesezgwawe: demographic variable, axis of privilege (hesez, demographic group + gwawe, blank; variable) suzafon: sousaphone (English borrowing) atrapus: mandolin droiski: banjo fusharampt: elbow pit, cubital fossa, chelidon naagab: cubital (of the forearm) (na, of + agab, forearm) zhburk: to fight, to stop (I can't ~ that feeling) kvarnazhi: scratchy cloth bamspiwiz: to double-fist (alternate between two alcoholic drinks) (bam, two + spiwiz, to squirt) holtzehimezis: quadrilingual (noun), tetraglot (hol, four + tzehimez, language + -is) (Word #67,500!) shuyesbetzith: xenophilia (love between people of two different sapient species) (shuyes, across + betzith, love) bibimbap: bibimbap (Korean borrowing) basiksaphis: entomophile (basik, Ciladian root for insect + saph + -is) muphkheni: myrmecophilous, ant-loving (made of Ciladian roots + muph, ant + kheni, neighboring) kashphrutz: pull-up (kash, bar + phrutz, to pull)
And an idiom/proverb:
as andam, as geshtum: save the best for last (lit. "is last, is best")
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 02 Jan 2021 07:47
by eldin raigmore
“prettydragoon” wrote: the rather odd milestone of 13,579 words
I finally see what you did there!
And why 24680 would even things up!
Wow, I’m not used to taking so long to get it!
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 02 Jan 2021 12:38
by Thrice Xandvii
I don't. Could you enlighten?
Edit: Oh. Now I do. Disregard this.
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 26 Jan 2021 01:30
by Khemehekis
Word #67,890 in Kankonian: la*engov, meaning "modulus of elasticity". It comes from la*eng, the adjective for "elastic", plus the suffix -ov (ilt, tall -> iltov, height; burk, heavy -> burkov, weight, etc.)
Does 78,910 words count as a milestone? 91,011? I'll probably at least count 101,112 as a milestone . . . 123,456 definitely, if I get that far.
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 26 Feb 2021 05:05
by Khemehekis
70,000 words today!
Word #70,000 was gahetshik, meaning "megapixel". The gahe- at the beginning was taken from gahelsi (million). It was modeled after gahe*inam (megadeath). Tshik is simply the word for pixel.
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 27 Mar 2021 04:28
by Khemehekis
Happy news, everyone! Shaleyan has just notched its three thousandth word! The word was babaz, which means "numb".
This makes Shaleyan the second Lehola conlang to reach a lexicon of 3,000 words, and the second largest Lehola lexicon after Kankonian's monstrous 71,000.
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 15 Apr 2021 06:56
by Khemehekis
A few seconds ago, Achel reached 3,000 words with zhui, an adverb meaning "why (what purpose?)".
This makes Achel the third Leholang to reach 3,000 words, and the third largest Leholang lexicon after Shaleyan and Kankonian.
Re: Lexicon milestones
Posted: 18 May 2021 05:27
by Khemehekis
I reached 72,500 words about an hour ago!
The milestone word was helno, a slangy word for "cavalier", in the sense of "uncircumcised male". It is short for helnaplis, which is from helnaplo (uncircumcised), plus the suffix -is, which indicates a person. Helnaplo, in turn, comes from hel (with) and naplo (foreskin).