"Ouch, I got something in my eye"
"Something made a noise, and it kept me up all night"
subject: itinconsequential object: Noun, acc Verb: [subj: congruence with Noun]
"Ouch, I got something in my eye"
"Something made a noise, and it kept me up all night"
subject: itinconsequential object: Noun, acc Verb: [subj: congruence with Noun]
wood > stick > tool > [forgotten steps] > something like a perfect aspect marker
dough (noun) > swell (verb) > overflow, exceed, for instance wrt the size of a container
Duala (Ittman 1939: 187)
nin ndabo e kolo buka nine
this house it big exceed that
'this house is bigger than that'
A Goat, that was sitting next to the gentleman in white, shut his eyes and said in a loud voice, "She ought to know her way to the ticket-office, even if she doesn't know her alphabet!"
animate inanimate nominative tëm sëm accusative tna sëm dative tënk sënk ablative tnam snam
ertenwhich is positioned phrase-initially in the NP.
animate feminine inanimate plur anim. plur. inan. nom tum titi sve tera sva acc tuta tnu sve tetar sva dat tuvut tir sin terit savit gen tudin tura siŋa terin savit loc-instr tuder tuvat siŋa terar siŋa
Use the word “zɪgʔʌzɪgÊ”a†to mean “a type of lover who works hard to fit in with your life, because they love you so much and are willing to put in effort to make your relationship work,†that is usually untranslated. Known mostly from a translation of a traditional poem in your conlang. Taken from the earlier translation, because I could not find the latest, “Prithee, canst thou tell me what thou desirest? What thine heart truly desireth?// By my troth! I will tell thee what I long for, what in my deepest soul I long for.// I pray, willst thou tell me what thou art thirsting after, what in thy deepest bosom, thou art thirsting after.// I want a, I want a// I really, really want a zɪgʔʌzɪgÊ”aâ€
A three-dimensional logographic script, for use for four-dimensional beings. Some characters have elements enclosed in a box, similar to Chinese 圆 .Â
It is opaque (not wireframe) and has question marks on it. Common characters with this radical include “coinâ€, “mushroomâ€, and “flowerâ€.
A writing system composed of pairs of organic bases, attached to a polymer of sugar and phosphate.
pəktən < proto-dairwueh pak'təyn "hundred"Ćwarmin has been fairly conservative over time, with few consonant changes. However, we do find that words have generally changed to accomodate Ćwarmin vowel harmony.
biÄÉ™r "wheel" < proto-bryatesle 'bitars "wheel"
uÄuÅ›an "plow" < proto-bryatesle ɨketr'sa- "plow"
gukula "viceroy" < proto-dairwueh 'gutkələ- "pay tribute"
sicə "vinegar" < proto-bryatesle sɨl'tse "wine"
cixkan "write" < dairwueh tsihkal "write numbers (in an accounting situation)"In some recent loans, vowel harmony has begun spreading from the stressed syllable onwards (obtaining in some idiolects forms like resepəŋ pro resepaŋ). Stress tends to remain unmoved for a few generations, but since stress is fairly solidly word-initial in Ćwar min, each generation tends to increase the number of speakers who moves the stress to word-initial. Sometimes, they also fix the harmony, sometimes not, so you find idiolects anywhere along the line of te'buvu > 'tebuvu > 'tobuvu or 'tebivi.
dunvali < dairwueh dunvali, kingdom
re'sepaŋ < dairwueh re'sepank, criminal
te'buvu< bryatesle te'buxu, cake
dunvali - dunvalutu (the kingdom), dunvaluc (kingdom.acc), dunvalututa (of the kingdom).However, words like resepaŋ, the harmony either follows that of the closest stressed syllable (secondary stress is strong enough for its vowel harmony class to win out), or the rightmost remaining syllable:
re'sepaŋuc, resepaŋamca, ... but alsodepending on which of these approaches have won out in the particular idiolect spoken by our informant. Both approaches may coexist for any speaker, and may be lexically conditioned or even by sentence-level prosody.
re'sepaŋ, resepaŋemce