becka_sutton | Conlanging the Opal Mask - Ears and Horses

As I mentioned here these people do not have a word for horse yet but checking my timeline I realised they will be encountering them soon so I thought I'd deal with them. The horses they'll be encountering at this point belong to a nomadic race who end up migrating into my people territory and are actually large ponies in size and probably conformation. To my people they look a lot like donkeys and are around the same size. It's no wonder they think of them as a sort of donkey and call them "small-eared donkey".

So how do we say that?

Ear is petapʰak (note: this only applies to lugholes not cereal ears) and so a small ear is petapʰrēpʰak. As an adjective that is petapʰrē.

So small-eared donkey would be rekklapʰak petapʰrē.

Of course that's a bit of a mouthful so it's entirely possible they'll just call them donkeys most of the time.

I wonder how long it'll be before they discover mules...