WW #12: Meat To Go
The third word on the Liepzig-Jakarta list is “to go”. Muipidan verbs of motion tend to distinguish both the path and the speed of motion. For generic motion (without specifying… Read more »
Tag: Kharulian
WW #11: Follow Your Nose
The second word on the Liepzig-Jakarta list is “nose”. As it happens, none of my active projects have this word yet. So with this post, I bring into being: Muipidan… Read more »
WW #10: Of Lice and Fire
This week, I start at the top of the Liepzig-Jakarta list with the Nitherian word for “fire”. It’s va [va], which happens to be homophonous with the possessive preposition. Nitherian… Read more »
WW #9: Bootcamp
Today I’m starting a data science bootcamp. This means I’ll likely have approximately no time to do conlanging, so the next three months of Weekly Words will be very bare-bones…. Read more »
WW #8: Idle Hands
I’m in the middle of two weeks with no work, so I’m making words about idleness! (Don’t worry, I’m taking this opportunity to do a major overhaul of the Lexurgy… Read more »
WW #7: Valentines
Let’s celebrate Valentine’s Day with words for romantic love. In the cultures of the Three Rivers region, romance had nothing to do with marriage. The love (if any) between husband… Read more »
WW #6: Brrrr
It’s a pleasant -21C (-6F) outside as I write this, so let’s talk temperature words! This is apparently an area I’ve completely neglected so far, so all of these are… Read more »
WW #5: The Fruits of our Labour
This week’s theme is fruit. The Kharulians were particularly fond of dates (saghmiigh [saʝˈmiːʝ]); they also ate olives (iighwi [ˈiː.ɣʷi], singular eev [ˈeːβ]), apples (chiry [tʃiɹ̠ʲ]), and grapes (puzh [puʒ])…. Read more »
WW #4: Say Hello to Nitherian
This week, a third language, Nitherian, joins Weekly Words. While Muipido and Kharul were contemporaries and neighbours in the northwest of Meamoria, the Nitherian empire emerged from the jungles of… Read more »
WW #3: For All Seasons
Last week, we saw that the Muipidan calendar divided the year into five “seasons”. But what did they call these seasons? For much of the population of Muipido and Kharul,… Read more »