WW #15: A Taste of Blood
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 »
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 »
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 »