... After some thinking I think that spellings like basa-n' are doomed to transform into just basan. So I guess one may allow to contract "ney" into just "n"...
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lingwadeplaneta
Dec 3, 2009 2:26 pm
Can anybody recommend a good root for "marry", which could give all the derivatives like "wedding" etc. Currently I have "mari" but it's too close to "mar"...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
Dec 3, 2009 2:43 pm
... Sasxsek derives them all from the root "ued" ("to be married"/"marriage"). "To marry" would be an inchoative of that "uedib" ("to become married"). ued to...
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lingwadeplaneta
Dec 3, 2009 6:56 pm
In Serbocroatian I've found "kwara" with the meaning "spoiling, corruption". Couldn't find anything similar in Turkish but in Hindi there is "khwar" with a...
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cafaristeir
Dec 4, 2009 7:20 am
Hao day kare Dmitry ! Yesterday, I could not answer as I was absent most of the time and tired on the evening. Are you sure about "kwara" in Serbo-Croatian ?...
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cafaristeir
Dec 4, 2009 7:34 am
Difficult ! But Greek "zeugon" has given "zauj" in Arabic, "husband; couple"; "zouj" in Parsi, "zevc" in Turkish. The first meaning of the Greek word is...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
Dec 4, 2009 2:16 pm
I just stumbled upon and issue in Sasxsek that has me wondering if it might be a good idea to reintroduce <w> and <y>. I mentioned in the previous thread the...
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lingwadeplaneta
Dec 4, 2009 3:13 pm
... It may not matter much but I didn't notice the rule about them becoming semivowels and have been instinctively reading "iu" with the stress at "i". So it...
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lingwadeplaneta
Dec 4, 2009 5:13 pm
... Hao aksham, kare Olivier! Aksham begin ranem nau. Nu hev blan nocha in yuni bat swate dey in desemba. ... I should have written "kvar". There is also a...
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lingwadeplaneta
Dec 4, 2009 5:26 pm
... Marriage as a yoke... Makes sense! :) ... My own idea has been near: yugi (inspired by Sp conyuge, maybe also by zauj). Bat treba dumi for... ... I guess...
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cafaristeir
Dec 5, 2009 6:35 am
Hao sabah kare Dmitry ! In Lotringia, nau deys es toshi swate, bat ne totem ! ... As long as it is two-ways yoke ! ... Yes it is. But in Lithuanian they have a...
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lingwadeplaneta
Dec 6, 2009 2:49 pm
... In Swedish "to marry" is "gifta", while "gift" is poison. Not best associations either. It seems that "mari" can't be undone. My only another idea was to...
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lingwadeplaneta
Dec 6, 2009 6:53 pm
Jens, if you haven't yet counted the amount of words from every language in NP, Lenadi Moucina did it in Posta_Mundi: ...
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Dec 7, 2009 5:17 am
... Thanks for the information! Actually I've never done it systematically, because I'm not a very systematic person, so it was nice to see. I was kind of...
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lingwadeplaneta
Dec 12, 2009 3:30 pm
I am about to introduce a special marker for passive participle, and I'd like it to be -tey. However there is already -te (past tense marker). A couple of...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
Dec 12, 2009 4:24 pm
... For S:S: the passive participle is made by combining the passive (not past) suffix "-a" with the adjectival suffix "-i" to form "-ari"....
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steve rice
ansric
Dec 13, 2009 7:24 pm
... Would you consider -ti instead? It would still suggest -te (if that's important) but differ more from -te. Actually, on further consideration, I'd halfway...
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lingwadeplaneta
Dec 13, 2009 8:21 pm
... I guess I'll take "-de" for the past marker. The only problem with it is that sometimes it clashes with "dey" (day): "mah-hao-de" (improved) suggests "hao...
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Risto Kupsala
rkupsala
Dec 13, 2009 8:26 pm
... The problems for "i" and "u" as semivowels are combinations /wi/, /ju/, /wu/, /uw/, /ji/ and /ij/. The first two sound very much like each other, and the...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
Dec 13, 2009 10:52 pm
... The rules as they stand now would call for an "-r-" but I'm considering either an exception to that rule or maybe reinstating the semivowels as distincts...
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risto@...
rkupsala
Dec 14, 2009 7:44 am
... I agree. In some fonts, and at least in my handwriting, the two are almost identical: "i" is a straight line with a dot and "j" is a long straight line...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
Dec 14, 2009 12:06 pm
... I do put a hook on my <J/j> but don't do the line across the top of the uppercase like a lot of people do. ... That's it but realize they went toward Malay...
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risto@...
rkupsala
Dec 14, 2009 2:12 pm
... I suppose literacy was low in Indonesia back then, so it wasn't a big deal. Also Indonesian wasn't yet as widely spoken in Indonesia at that time as it is...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
Dec 14, 2009 6:49 pm
... Literacy may have been an issue at the time. I know it had something to do with convergence with Malay though they ar distinct dialects. Javanese is also...
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Dec 15, 2009 4:26 am
... And there is something else also, a historical rather than linguistic fact. In 1941, the Japanese drove the Dutch out of Indonesia, and essentially...
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cafaristeir
Dec 19, 2009 6:43 am
Sellamat prients ! Indeed, it seems to me that the Dutch never seriously sought to impose Netherlandic in Indonesia, though, of course, it was an official...
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lingwadeplaneta
Jan 4, 2010 8:03 am
Hao, I've found in the SASXSEK dic: NO - nothing, nobody, nowhere UO - one; somebody; something; anything Isn't that too many meanings for one word....
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lingwadeplaneta
Jan 8, 2010 8:39 am
I'm looking for interjection reflecting the process of spitting. I am not sure that it exists in English, although my dic gives a lot of interjections for...
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steve rice
ansric
Jan 8, 2010 5:04 pm
... But the typical onomatopoeia for spitting is built around /tu/, with optional leading /p/ and/or closing /i/, so the full version is /ptui/, usually...
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zeinelabidin
Jan 8, 2010 10:12 pm
... Yes you are correct. In Arabic it's tuf or tfu....
