Gìsułagiese:
giavvere no' ggota legałutate /dʒavˈvɛrə nəg ˈgɔta ləˌgaɰɨˈtatə/ Literally "to have not a drop of loyalty;" to be disloyal.
Next word: ante meridian; a.m.
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- Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:02 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 429
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- Sat Nov 23, 2019 1:24 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
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Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
According to the Index Diachronica, there's ø → oː in the sound changes from Proto-Turkic to Sakha, but I can't find a reference to that in the sources they give. There's also y → u in Tsakonian which IIRC is much better attested, and in Scots there's apparently øː → (j)u, (j)ʌ. Of course, with inte...
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 6:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Project Mammoth Hunter - Help me make my first conlang
- Replies: 74
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Re: Project Mammoth Hunter - Help me make my first conlang
Fricatives, except for /ɬ~ɮ/, became stops It is very weird for all fricatives (or even most of them) to become stops, unconditionally . In our world, fricativelessness is an extremely uncommon areal feature confined mainly to Australia. Either make this change conditional, or exclude some more fri...
- Wed Nov 20, 2019 1:56 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Gender-neutral kin terms in English
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4011
Re: Gender-neutral kin terms in English
Regarding the etymology of ommer , I found a post on an asexuality forum here where someone suggests it comes from English eam , a dialectal word for "uncle," or related Germanic words like German Ohm , Dutch oom , ultimately from PG *awahaimaz and PIE *h₂éwh₂os . They also suggest an etym...
- Wed Nov 20, 2019 1:37 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
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Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
Anything with a voiced consonant would seem really odd to me; I've only heard /bɐːθs/ or a variant like [bɐːfs] etc. Same with paths /pɐːθs/, which is the only rhyming word I can think of. I would also say /kləu̯ðz/ for clothes.