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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Muipido developed the first accurate solar calendar, dividing the 345-day year into twenty months of 17 or 18 days based on the lunar cycle. This calendar was borrowed by Kharul,… Read more »