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This language has a set of verbs my notes call animal verbs. These are verbs are animal nouns that have been verbed to describe an action people associate with that animal.

We actually have a few such verbs in English though they are fairly informal.

Examples: He wolfed his food, she squirreled away money, he weaseled his way in etc. I'm sure you can think of more.

Such words are a formal part of this conlang however. This gives me an advantage because it means one animal word I produce has the potential to give me a lot more words. Therefore I am going to be creating 31 word roots not 31 words for lexember and will hopefully give me quite a vocabulary by the end.

Words:

We're starting with the two main predators known to these people. The verbs that come off them are actually very similar as you will see.

1. Wolf -  Rempʰak (absolutive case, animate gender). When verbed this word means hunt as part of a group and the simple form is ramot. From this we get four more possible nouns: remago - magical group hunt, remeka - mundane group hunt, remteago - magical hunter (who hunts in a group), remteeka - mundane hunter (who hunts in a group).

2. Lynx - Kragpʰak (absolutive case, animate gender). When verbed this word means hunt alone and the simple form is kragot. Once again you can get 4 more possible nouns out of this by amending the suffixes just as above.

So that's my first two lexember word roots. Twelve words for the price of two - not bad.



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