Conlangers

temi

• (n.) bone (mass noun)

A huita temi i leya ti pama.
“Bone is harder than stone.”

Notes: The basic form of this word is a mass noun. In order to refer to a particular bone, you have to turn temi into a count noun. Thus, ape o temi is “a bone”.

The glyph here is a modification of the syllabic glyph te. The inside of the glyph has been turned into a kind of ribcage.

ka’a

• (n.) crow

A fuila ka’a ie uomoko.
“The crow flies at night.”

Notes: Probably a couple different ways to say that, but one interesting thing about this word is I have it defined in my dictionary as “crow” or “raven”. Well I’ll be hanged if I didn’t learn recently that crows and ravens are different animals! I mean, really, how about that! So I had to decide on one of them to be ka’a, and I’ve decided on “crow” (and, yes, the word is onomatopoeic).

Regarding the iku, the syllabic glyph ha is kind of embellished to look a bit bird-like, and that’s how this one was made.