Zompist Bboard Again

I really, really need to get back into conlanging. Maybe even revamp Sodemeresh (it's not very sound, grammatically speaking).

Not metatypy, but I've been having fun putting Sodemeresh loanwords into Estreri. Which is how the word sirtuke ('to sail') came into Estreri, even though in its original language sirtuke is infinitive and Estreri lacks infinitives. My explanation for this is that Soduar is coastal, Estrer is landlo...

Sar nju-lenčane mikišanjače.
Those PLN-SCname PLinterestingIIN
Those names are interesting.

Onjo Ešrer, sanguzis em njulensalris njiaru-lo. Ko-lenhark jawaidu.
At Estrer theyMX lots forestsPL-O-NSG have3PLM-PR FPL-O-mountain sleepMX
In Estrer, they have lots of forests.They live in the mountains.

Šois rai-okrejima lenpangrisja* tjur-injiaru. Sar em kiʔiasira. 
My1SG OPCfamily OCpinetree haveE1PL it very tallingIIMSG
My family has a pine tree. It's very tall.

*Estreri doesn't actually have a word for pine so 'pan' is a calque.

Sotš zja-zarisja mikišanjača-lo, lai? Zamišiwakin sɛnki.

And trees are also interesting, aren't they? I love them.

My wife says they are called "winter roses". Dis mosa Helleborus , swel kol Kwismas ros . That must be Helleborus , also known as Christmas rose . https://www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/shutterstock_1619071384.jpg JAL Sar ko-nemin em mikisɛriseo-lo. Those flowers ar...

Bohʔ ɛka, nikotjɛn! Baretji-anj. Sar nečalkwa kihʊla-lo, ɛšreri. Again hello everyone return1SG PT marker this Possessive case languageMSG newingMSGIO, PRTN marker Estreri Again hello everyone! (I have) return(ed). This (my) language new, Estreri. Hello again, everyone! I'm back. This is my new lan...

Though I do have both korme ('to stand') and kore ('to hang', both things and people) so I imagine there'd be a few dark little puns about that in the conworld Sodemeresh is native to. Also, it's now 1300 words.

As of December 7th of this year, Sodemeresh now has 1300 words.

How do you go about creating words? Most of the time I honestly just throw together sounds I like that fit Sodemeresh's grammar, but as the lexicon's gotten bigger I've started to create words like dirikhamo (mask), which is something of an amalgation of dirikusha (face) and hamio/hamia (the femini...

Hoping to get it to 1,234 by Thursday.

Success! Sodemeresh just got its 1,234th word: Lovuzimi , which means "balcony".

Also, what does the apostrophe represent?

The apostrophe in menharau'b shows that it's short for menharau bur (bur's the negation particle). It's basically the equivalent of English's (for example) don't

That seems very interesting. What're these 'other reasons', though? And btw, yesterday Sodemeresh reached 1,200 words! Hoping to get it to 1,234 by Thursday. I've also decided to make the negation system a particle thing, because it's more convenient, less of a hassle, and fits nicely with the tense...

Ari sogidia, koltiail juval metla so tandu. Hursal eilil okorel

In (time, during) winterMSG, snowISG rarely where I(FSG) am1SG. But rainISG frequently.

Where I am, it rarely snows in winter. But it rains a lot.

Counting both the numbers and the new words I just added today, it goes up to 1,104. I love lexicon-building.

Thank you! I just finished the official count and I've apparently got 1,028 now (not counting the numbers).

I'm pretty sure my lexicon is around 1k by now. Helped by the fact that I decided I was going to do 10 words a day in November (using a Verb Ajective Noun rotation bcs it's easy to remember) and actually succeeded, resulting in at least 300 new words since my last count, which was like 694.

Yes, 'fomazu' is the first person singular. And hopefully the bolding/underlining/italicizing should be fixed now.

A showcase of my first ever & also current main conlang (I only got into this October), Sodemeresh, spoken by the people of Soduar on the southernmost part of the continent Silandriel (the world is called Lyros). The Sodemeresh people are highly influential on neighboring countries via trade and...