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Pabappa wrote:next: petroleum, gasoline
The closest I can get to gasoline in my conworld is Keševan gúržane 'fuel', which includes wood and coal and oil--anything you might want to burn. From gurža, which at one point meant the same thing but since then narrowing only to mean firewood. Ultimately from a root meaning 'burn'.

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Yalensky wrote: Wed Nov 20, 2019 3:44 amNext word: balcony
Msérsca:

prendella balcony, porch

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äreo wrote: Wed Nov 20, 2019 12:41 pm Next: to shatter
The Keševan verb for 'shatter' is udebesse, udebeno, udebenta, the principal parts being respectively the infinitive, the singular 3rd person present, and the passive participle. From ude-, a prefix meaning 'in the center of', 'surrounded', or even 'totally' or 'done violently', with the verb besse, beno, benta, which simply means 'break'. The verb besse comes from Rasal bénnase 'split or break in two' (the first syllable is cognate to K. beš 'two').

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Yalensky wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2019 4:17 amnext: bribe
Kala: tlisua - bribe; bribery

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Gìsułagiese:
giavvere no' ggota legałutate /dʒavˈvɛrə nəg ˈgɔta ləˌgaɰɨˈtatə/ Literally "to have not a drop of loyalty;" to be disloyal.

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Darren wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:02 pmNext word: ante meridiem; a.m.
Tautisca: pró medídinié "before noon"; it's not used in indicating hours, as hours are counted from sunrise to sunset only.

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hwhatting wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2019 1:35 am Next: honey
Keševan velma 'honey', from Rasal vélama.

Calintese yovo 'honey'.

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Msérsca:

círsco literally blushy or little red one
círpos, círipos literally blushstone

Both of these can mean ruby, though the first might also be used to refer affectionately to someone’s (blushing) face, or to a ladybug, or to anything small and red. They are related to cír blushing, red, redness and círir to blush, to be red

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äreo wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:56 pm next word: thanksgiving
Qumor: nunk’eli, nunk’el- “thanksgiving day, harvest celebration” (from Proto-Qumor *k’añil)
Icemannic Dialect 17: tokaitilajukë “thanksgiving day, day of remembering” (from Proto-Icemannic *tuakaitilaju-kia “it-makes-us-cyclically-remember day”)

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Pedant wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2019 4:48 pm next: turkey
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hinti - turkey

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masako wrote: Fri Nov 29, 2019 11:44 am next: (be) damp; (be) moist
Tautisca: mudrus "wet, moist"
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hwhatting wrote: Sun Dec 01, 2019 9:29 am
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I took the "harass, annoy" sense of the word here rather than the auxiliary verb sense.

Baywatch:
lemenē , from Proto-Dreamlandic liamia niā.
nesse , from Proto-Dreamlandic niā ćća.

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tʷăda "to harass unwanted people"
hʷùtə "a team of bullies harassing a small child"

These words combine to give Play futetuaa , but this is a dead-end word that does not survive in Poswa (and probably not Pabappa either).

Poswa:
I already have nusa "annoy" and šaža "to annoy; biting insect; to react aggressively" as well as several words for harassment, though most are listed as being specifically words for sexual harassment. There is also pappupa "dog; sadistic abuse, harassment". I don't hate dogs, and neither do the Poswobs as a whole, but this isn't the primary word for dog. Indeed, English has something very similar: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dog#Verb

Lastly there are reflexive verbs for "irritable" to indicate someone being bothered by an inanimate object or phenomenon. I dont really need to add any words here, although I think that /šaža/ should probably be turned into a compound like nuššaža since it's homophonous with other things.

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Pabappa wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 4:08 pmnext:
latitude; to move east-west
Msérsca:

Sem is east and cal is west; verren is a word meaning follow and can be used to refer to movement east and west, commonly in the compound mrótoverren to follow the Sun. Semmecal is the Equator, and verrevíli “follow-lines” are lines of latitude.

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äreo wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2019 10:36 am next: eggnog / ponche crema / advocaat / whatever your equivalent is
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Amqoli: phoshel [ˈpxoʃeɫ], unanalyzable even in Proto-Amqolic; but this is frequently replaced with lgqomri [ˈlɢʁomʝi], clearly from earlier *lagó-muqri with metathesis of [ʁ]; cf. lgortu 'last night', ratu 'night'

Gejaehl Hlu: kwinyjjim [kwiɲˈʄim] < Proto-Hluic krun e cim 'sunrise'; the Bor vocalic simplification of non-initial syllables gives instead krunyjjim [kɻuɲˈʄim] ~ [kwɚɲˈʄim]. Thing kvurnchīm [kfɚȵȶim˧˨] is of course cognate; ezafe constructions typically take initial stress and mid-falling tone.

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Duaj teibohnggoe kyoe' quaqtoeq lucj lhaj k'yoejdej noeyn tucj.
K'yoejdaq fohm q'ujdoe duaj teibohnggoen dlehq lucj.
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Nortaneous wrote: Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:19 am
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1) drums. Transparent derivation of bibina 'strike, beat repeatedly'


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karaluuebru wrote: Fri Dec 06, 2019 1:04 pm next: whetstone or hammerstone, tool used to sharpen another tool/create another blade
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masako wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2019 8:48 am
next: to flow directly; direct current (D.C.)
Im out of practice so there might be some errors here.
Poswa:
wintša pembi "one-way energy"
wimpafratatša "asymmetrical indoor energy"

Pabappa:
wabu popup papemblea "one-way placenta energy" (if power cords are likened to umbilical cords, power outlets can be likened to placentas)


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Pabappa wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2019 6:37 pm next: menu, list of choices
In Keševan, I suppose a menu could be lučiûga fetma or lučiûga lengam which both mean 'list of dishes'. The word for list is literally 'through-writing' and the words for dish are respectively a borrowing from my conlang Calintese ('board' > 'plate') and a derivation from Keševan lepse 'offer, give out'.

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The Zzyxwqnp linguistic tradition is a little difficult, owing to the phonological peculiarities of the language. A trzpye kqpmq /tʂʰə̀jə̄ kʰwàmāɴ/ (lit. 'carrier sound') is a type of sound that can only be syllabic, and a trzpye chan /tʂʰə̀jə̄ tjāɴ/ (lit. 'load sound') is a type of sound that can only be non-syllabic, but then there are the trzpye tonpkzt /tʂʰə̀jə̄ tʰòɴkʰə́/ (lit. 'intermediate sound'), which can be either.

However! There are actually two kinds of tonpkzt: the ggqtkqpmq /ŋgwákʰwàmāɴ/ and the ggqtchan /ŋgwátʰjāɴ/, or "carrier-like" and "load-like". The tonpkztye ggqtkqpmq can bear most trzpye chan, but the tonpkztye ggqtchan can bear only a few. So the chan are divided into chanye bbqx /tʰjāɴjə̄ mbâ/ and chanye pyt /tʰjājə pʰź̩/ ("light" and "heavy"): the chanye bbqx can be borne by (*only* by) tonpkztye ggqtchan, whereas the chanye pyt can't.

So the Zzyxwqnp sound inventory, in the native phonological tradition (here given in IPA because it's simpler than dealing with the romanization), is:
Kqpmq: [a ɒ e ə o]
Chanye bbqx: [ʔ h]
Chanye pyt: [pʰ p mb f tʰ t nd tsʰ ts ndz s tʂʰ tʂ ndʐ ʂ tɕʰ tɕ ndʑ ɕ kʰ k ŋg x]
Tonpkztye ggqtkqpmq: [w j v z ʐ ʑ]
Tonpkztye ggqtchan: [m n ȵ ŋ l]

Since the field of phonology in Zzxzzyx exists primarily for accent training for rhetoricians, there is not much interest in the minority languages of the empire; however, fricated vowels and syllabic nasals are not uncommon in Vengic languages, so even that wouldn't do them much good. The closest they could get to the concept of "vowel" is kqpmq and tonpkztye ggqtkqpmq... but, a Ziwan rhetorician might ask, why not also the tonpkztye ggqtchan? After all, there are words like pmx [ʔm̩̂] and jjahn [ndʑān̥n̩̄], and some rustics even insist on trying to make the ggqtchan bear chanye pyt, and pronounce these tmx [tʰm̩̂] and jjasn [ndʑāsn̩̄]!

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Duaj teibohnggoe kyoe' quaqtoeq lucj lhaj k'yoejdej noeyn tucj.
K'yoejdaq fohm q'ujdoe duaj teibohnggoen dlehq lucj.
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