Zompist Bboard Again

Caerydic Phaeroian:

Soudrai kloroi, oprida Toront-i droias!
paragon-PL weep-ADV-C.NOM.PL / glider Toronto-CONST crash-PRESPERF.IND.ACT.3s
"Paragons wept, there was a plane crash in Toronto!"

O is for Oven
High Arrahng: naamor, naabir (n04) "oven, cooking-hole filled with coals"

E is for Experience
High Arrahng: ikep, indup (n20) "experience, carrying"

And that is all!

K is for Knife
High Arrahng: gumaw, gubi (n04) "knife"

B is for Brain
High Arrahng: djilawh, djirdah (n03) "brains (part of an animal)"

I is for Invasion
High Arrahng: dhardil, dhatil (n14) "invasion, encroachment, trespassing"

Z is for Zone
High Arrahng: tjiwehm, tjidjahm (n16) "zone, district, portion of a marsh"

N is for Nonsense
High Arrahng: buwahr, butohr (n05) "fart; nonsense"

H is for Hiccup
High Arrahng: kap (v) "to hiccup"

G is for Grace
High Arrahng: koonyar, koowir (n02) "grace, poise"

U is for Unlikely
High Arrahng: -dung- (auxiliary prefix) "be unlikely to be/do X"

V is for Veil
High Arrahng: lomaw, lawbi (n04) "mask, veil"

Y is for Year
High Arrahng: mirrahk, mikahk (n11) "year"

W is for Waist
High Arrahng: kulorl, kurdarl (n03) "waist, torso"

R is for Relinquish
High Arrahng: uguruh (v) "relinquish, hand over"

Q is for Quest High Arrahng: yurdihk, yutihk (n14) "quest, vision-quest, spiritual journey" X is for Xenogamy High Arrahng: nayki, nengki (n08) "xenogamy, cross-moiety marriage, cross-pollination" S is for Square High Arrahng: wabudj, wapudj (n12) "square, four-sided shape&...

Is High Arrahng vaguely Australian-inspired? It is indeed! With Bantu-style noun classes (as suffixes), conjugation of verbs based on type of movement involved, specific pronouns for in-group and out-group individuals, and click consonants in the priestly and rural dialects! (Which, funny story, is...

J is for Justify
High Arrahng: uguru (v) "to justify, make solid (by holding in hand)"

M is for Measure
High Arrahng: uwutj (v) "to measure (something, someone)"

T is for Torture
High Arrahng: lirding, liting (n14) "hurt, harm, torture"

"Arrahng" sounds like a good interjection to express catching up on Lexember. Heh, heh… F is for Familiar High Arrahng: put (v) "be familiar" D is for Descent High Arrahng: nyunyatj, nyuwitj (n02) "descent, coming down" High Arrahng: kabahr, kamahr (n15) "descent,...

Let's see:

C is for Cellar

High Arrahng: yuwek, yudjak (n16) "cellar, vault"

L is for Lip

High Arrahng: balom, bardam (n03) "lip"

P is for Prestige

High Arrahng: ugunyarr, uguwirr (n02) "prestige, acclaim; predicate (grammar)"

So. Dunno if this is allowed; if it isn't, I'll stop. But I want to get my book done. I want to get stories out there. And for that, I kind of need a sounding board. And stories set on Tjarral—a small, rather tectonically-active world in a binary system—are conworld stories. Gonna just see about pos...

Yang ik pumuhrr?
what TOP PERF.INTR-change
"What's up?"

The continent that these stories take place on is the third-largest continent on the planet, coming behind Asia and Africa (still accorded their own place in this history). Connected to South America—here simply Pacifica —by the Isthmus of Panama, and to Asia intermittently via the Bering Strait, an...

Ares Land wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 9:46 am A very interesting premise. What language are the names in?

Many thanks! The names are in Norse, then Mi’kmaq, and then Mi’kmaq with Norse origin.

Happy New Year, folks!

Prologue: First Contact So it was that Bjarne Herjulfson came to Greenland, and Jarl Érik received him well. And Bjarne spoke of lands he had seen, further to the west, but could not tell further stories, and so people gave his words no heed, and he was wroth. But Leif, son of Érik, was struck by h...

Going to see about reworking this old thing a little bit…

Prologue: First Contact
Chapter 1: The Survivor

Salvian:

Mu sahajgalar hulnaa kirshinan chin tandhaś chin-hulnaa haraar.
Not transform-simp.int-5sE woman-GEN.S childbirth-LOC.S nine month-NOM.PL nine-woman-GEN.S one-DAT.S
“You cannot turn nine months of one woman’s childbirth into one for nine women.”

Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 12:48 pm The question may have been asked before, but is that con-Australian?

One of them, anyway! I have four: Booladjirra, Arrahng, Warruk, and Proto-Theryke.