WW #20: The Sky is Sad
This week’s Liepzig-Jakarta word should be “rain”, but Muipidan and Kharulian already had words for “rain”, so I’ve given them words for “fly” (the insect) instead. In Muipidan, the word… Read more »
This week’s Liepzig-Jakarta word should be “rain”, but Muipidan and Kharulian already had words for “rain”, so I’ve given them words for “fly” (the insect) instead. In Muipidan, the word… Read more »
In Nitherian, the word for “mango” (the fruit) is mwo [mwo]. But in the lead-up to the Imperial period in Nitheria, it also became the normal polite way of referring… Read more »
Word 10 on the Liepzig-Jakarta list (not counting the second-person pronoun sharing position 9) is “to come”. As mentioned in Weekly Words 12, Muipidan verbs of motion tend to distinguish… Read more »
Word 9 on the Liepzig-Jakarta list is “root”. I’ve already shared the Kharulian word for “root” in a Lexember post, so Kharulian will get a word for “arm” instead. The… Read more »
Word 8 on the Liepzig-Jakarta list is “bone”, which none of my languages had words for. The new words are Muipidan nubut’ïde [ˈnu.buˌtʼɨ.də], Kharulian kótron [ˈkɔt.rɔn], and Nitherian tsa [tsa]…. Read more »
Words 6 and 7 on the Liepzig-Jakarta list are “tongue” and “blood”. Muipidan and Kharulian already had words for “tongue”, while Nitherian already had a word for “blood”, so the… Read more »
The fifth word on the Liepzig-Jakarta list is “mouth”. All three languages needed this one, so here they are: Muipidan has nomayto [ˈnɔ.maj.to], which primarily means “tooth”, is also the… Read more »
The fourth word on the Liepzig-Jakarta list is “water”. Nitherian needed a word for water, so I made it osla [ˈo.ɬa]. Muipidan and Kharulian already had words for water, so… Read more »
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 »
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 »