WW #43: Kaige the Thick
The Muipidans believed in many gods, but nobody worshipped all of them. Everyone was expected to give sacrifices to the supreme god Emada, who made the sun shine, the rivers… Read more »
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WW #39: Growing Everywhere
A happy little sentence from the Syntax Test Cases: Ofloytota ofloytota pepehe otmoyk’e. [ˈo.flɔjˌto.taofloyto-tagrow-3p ˈo.flɔjˌto.taofloyto-tagrow-3p ˈpe.pɛ.həpe~pehePL~flower ˈot.mɔj.kʼə]otmoy-k’elovely-PLNT Lovely flowers are growing everywhere. Gloss provided by Gloss My Gloss This sentence… Read more »
WW #35: Optative Shenanigans
These four consecutive sentences from the Syntax Test Cases are phrased quite differently in English: Let’s go! You should go. I will be happy to go. He will arrive soon…. Read more »
WW #32: Turning Oneself the Head
I’m going through the Syntax Test Cases to help nail down a variety of constructions in my languages. I’ll be giving examples of these translations for the next few weeks…. Read more »
WW #29: Noisy Cats
Amamoyto nin myas ndon pungïsun e-mwamwa mï-hniyhn. [ˈa.maˌmɔj.toama-moy-tomother-DOM–DEF nɪnni-nGEN–1s mjasmya-sIPFV–3s ⁿdɔnn-donLOC–PASS ˈpʊ.ᵑɡɨ.zʊnpungïsu-nannoy-PASS ɛˈmwa.mwae=mwa~mwaINSTR=PL~cat mɨˈn̥ɪjn̥]mï=hniyhnLOC-squeal My mother-in-law was annoyed by some noisy cats. Gloss provided by Gloss My Gloss Here are… Read more »
WW #26: Heat Wave
After reflecting on the experience of the first 25 instalments of Weekly Words, I’m trying a new format: I’m adding the requirement that I include at least one sentence in… Read more »
WW #25: Big Wool
Just a quick tour of words for “cloud” this week. Muipidan has an archaic word uyk’udo [ˈʊj.kʼʊ.do] for “cloud”, but the usual classical word is ngek’üde [ˈᵑɡe.kʼʏ.də], literally “big wool”… Read more »
WW #24: But I Repeat Myself
This week’s theme is reduplication. Muipidan uses partial reduplication to mark noun plurals (e.g. lilihmük’ide [ˈli.lɪˌm̥y.kʼɪ.də] “apples”, from lihmük’ide [ˈli.m̥ʏˌkʼi.də] “apple”), but nouns can also be fully reduplicated to indicate… Read more »
WW #23: They Aren’t Here
Last week was about counting things. What about if there’s nothing to count? The Nitherians had a good grasp on the nature of zero (sozmslo [soˈzm̩.ɬo], literally “they aren’t here”),… Read more »
WW #22: I Jump to the Other Hand
This week, inspired by Janko Gorenc’s extensive collection of numbers in different languages, I’m doing words for numbers. The numbers from one to ten in the Meamorian languages are: Muipidan… Read more »