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becka_sutton) wrote2012-12-05 08:04 pm
becka_sutton) wrote2012-12-05 08:04 pm
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Conlanging the Opal Mask - More Animal Verbs and a Big Whoops - Lexember Post Three
Let's start with the whoops.
I made a big cock-up with the water and land nouns gender. See the noun class suffixes in this post and compare them to the landscape nouns in this post and this post. I really don't think they think the landscape is abstract. Eka should be dzla in all of those (except for the name of the world which is correctly in the spirit gender). *facepalm* I'll fix that this weekend.
I also think that perhaps -te- infixed -eka words should also shift to -pʰak (mundane animate) as well. I've changed it for mundane dancer in the suffixes post but I may yet change it back as the -te- is in itself a reference to the fact this is a human. Feedback on this is welcome.
Two more Lexember words
More animal nouns and verbs - again the verbs mean similar things though the creatures are very different.
1. Bee - dzadzapʰak (yes that is supposed to be an onomatopœia). The verb that comes from this is dzadzaot which refers to preserving or otherwise preparing food ready to be stored as bees make their honey for winter.
2. Squirrel - yontadpʰak. The verb form is yontadot which means to store food up for the winter as squirrels hoard nuts. Yontadeka is their name for late summer/early autumn.
As always feedback is welcome.
I made a big cock-up with the water and land nouns gender. See the noun class suffixes in this post and compare them to the landscape nouns in this post and this post. I really don't think they think the landscape is abstract. Eka should be dzla in all of those (except for the name of the world which is correctly in the spirit gender). *facepalm* I'll fix that this weekend.
I also think that perhaps -te- infixed -eka words should also shift to -pʰak (mundane animate) as well. I've changed it for mundane dancer in the suffixes post but I may yet change it back as the -te- is in itself a reference to the fact this is a human. Feedback on this is welcome.
Two more Lexember words
More animal nouns and verbs - again the verbs mean similar things though the creatures are very different.
1. Bee - dzadzapʰak (yes that is supposed to be an onomatopœia). The verb that comes from this is dzadzaot which refers to preserving or otherwise preparing food ready to be stored as bees make their honey for winter.
2. Squirrel - yontadpʰak. The verb form is yontadot which means to store food up for the winter as squirrels hoard nuts. Yontadeka is their name for late summer/early autumn.
As always feedback is welcome.