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sasasha wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 5:08 pm next: symmetry

Amal:

gurédan - of equal measure; symmetrical

next: shy; timid

masako wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 6:08 am next: shy; timid

Ainyn:

jøcnantsayra - a shy or timid person or creature (lit. "doorway shadow" or "cave-entrance shadow")

Next: overload, overwhelm

Vedreki
ulemottaq - to overwhelm (literally under-push; the Vedreki live on an archipelago so the image is of a ship being sunk, pushed under the waves)

Next to crown (as in "The king will be crowned in June.")

Ainyn

ineingwaláa - to reign, lit. "to know government". Back-formed perfective nineingwaláa - to succeed to the throne, lit. "to find government".

I also coined najynáa - to put on a crown, which however has no specific relationship with monarchic rule, and irnekanartoa - lit. "to see glass-work", used to describe a soon-to-be monarch nearing accession to the throne, or more generally of anyone who maneuvers themselves closer to the centre of royal power, which is associated with glass.

Next interrupt

CT hesgöm /hès.ʕǿm/ [hèz.ʕǿm] 'to interrupt, to block'
ndaíl /n̩.θà.íl/ [n̩.dðɹà.íl] 'to interrupt, to break narrative flow, to bulldoze over (in speech)'

Next: sleep apnea

Ainyn senimineim - sleep apnoea, lit. "sennifín-ism", after a parasitic swarming fly species that carries a sleeping sickness.

Next to evaporate, evaporation

Epic Letic: ʃɛ̃ʃɛ̃ũ or ʃũʃɛ̃ũ “to evaporate” probably a partial reduplication of an unattested ʃɛ̃ũ "to dry" which would be cognate with sĩ or sũũ in 2 more politically important dialects. Ultimately from the root *ciwã which ultimately derives from *kʲiwam which combines the word for water and an unknown prefix seen also in *kʲize "felled horn" from *ze "antler/horn/spike" which is reflexed in rere "bull animal" and ren "bone" which later semantically shifts to blood > vitality > virility (by now wẽ or mẽ) (note in many dialects it stays just as blood the original "bone" meaning is only attested as a borrowing to the north where its cognate is de "trap"). Also *ze is reflexed in the languages southern relative as *je "trap" *seje "scale" (which is just its reduplicated reflex), *seni "horn" and *seseni "spike" which are the unreduplicated and reduplicated forms + *ni a nominal to nominal intensifier.

Next: Bottom/Solution
This is in the sea metropolis dialect t́ɛ̃ "solution" from original tœr “buttock” and t́ɔ̃ɔ̃ "buttock now rather literary or poetic" from original tœ̃œ̃n “tail” both of which derive from the same root *tońa ultimately from *donja “bottom” which is often reflexed as an adposition in other branches. Also see nɛnɛ or nɛjø "bottom also a preposition meaning under" deriving from possible reduplication of a suffix -nɛ "down" or the same suffix + -ɣø "end" through the more expected form is nɛhø

sasasha wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 9:55 am Next interrupt

Tautisca
díríchten "disjoin, interrupt": Prefix dí(r/s)- "dis-, un-, asunder"; yuchten "join, link; harness"
antarflóditen "butt in, chip in, interrupt": Prefix antar- "inter-, between"; flóditen "speak, talk"
antauditen "interfere, meddle": Prefix an- "in, into"; tauditen "poke around, probe, investigate"

Next: breath

EDIT: I see that more words were posted while I was working on this. Feel free to go with their proposed new words.

OK, I'll do them all

Ainyn
mpin - knot (*N-pin - tied)
mpina - to knot (tr.), to tie; to bind
mpingwaláa (+gen) - to discover the truth; to get to the bottom of something; (excl.) Eureka!, also ngwaláa (lit. "to discover the knot")
mpingwalote - solution ("that which reveals the knot")
pingwaláa (+gen) - to understand something ("to know the knot", back formed imperfective of mpingwaláa; double meaning "to know the document")
pin - document, book (*pin - coarse thread; to tie; to thread together, to bind)
pelu - bottom, rump, end
waćam - breath
waćmáa - to breathe (intr.)

Next inspire

cae “to breathe” could be nominalised as caewa but you would probably use maí wind+dim for this.

jarne "to inspire" most likely from jarɛ "bestow" + a diminuitive ultimately from ja "blessed" which descends from *ɣ́a and ultimately *ɣja

Next: fell, chop down

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:42 pm cae “to breathe” could be nominalised as caewa but you would probably use maí wind+dim for this.

I don't think that's the meaning that was intended...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:12 pm I don't think that's the meaning that was intended...

It means breath.

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:42 pm next: fell, chop down

Kala:

heta - fell; chop down (a tree)

next: to restore; to recover

repa "to recover" literally "place anew"
recy "to restore" literally "make anew"

Also attested dialectally is remaa "to revisit" from maa "stroll"

Next: Come
This is cuu in Letic.

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:42 am Next: Come

Tautisca:
bummíten "come"
abbunten "come, approach"
I'm still working out the differences in usage between those two.

Next:
apple tree (or comparable fruit tree)

juu pa “apple tree” ultimately from juu "apple" of unknown entymology and pa "tree" from *paka.

Next: Dog
cɛ̃n dialectal kʷɛ̃n from *kʷamni through the intermediary *kʷãni. Used in various derived words referring to Nikeeya.

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 2:55 amNext: Dog

Resurrecting this because this is one of the best threads of all time.

Hibuese:
mbingu [ˈmbiŋu] "dog" from mbi "mammal" and ngu "hunter", because, to the Hibuese people, the primary importance of dogs is as hunting animals.

Next: annoy, annoying, annoyance

Imralu wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2023 10:55 pm Next: annoy, annoying, annoyance

Amal:

nip r. bother; annoy; disturbance

nipa n. annoyance; disturbance [nip]
nipek vd. bother; annoy; disturb [nip]
nipin n. jerk; bothersome person [nip qin]

Next: explain

akiaa “to explain” from aki “to understand” from OA *ake from Catkin
Next: amakani “to cherish” from PA amaka “to bring joy” + the reversal marker ni

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:10 pm Next: “to cherish”

Amal: amámek - cherish; adore; treat with affection

next: example