Okay, I’ve been cheating nicely by going to dictionary entries for words that sound the same as my morphemes and that was working fine… except that I can’t think of any palatalized consonants to look up to get the sounds like dyaik in odyaikaar. Help?
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Day and Night!
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rix_scaedu asked for Day and Night, which is coincidental, because tomorrow’s Edally holiday post is IetTienaabaa, which means “The Day of Tienaabaa.”
Iettie, actually, is day in the sense of a a whole day, from sunrise to sunrise, while Ietta is most often day in the sense of “day of;” birthday, gods’ day, coronation day.
The time from sunrise to sunset is anez /’a nez/, meaning, from sun to stars, and the word for night comes from the old phrase Odyidai ahkaarununu, “demons come.” While the word for “demons” in this sense is lost to history, it is still seen in words like dyid, darkness, and odyaikaar, night.
(If you are guessing that the Calenyena historically had an unpleasant relationship with nighttime…)
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rix_scaedu asked for parties!
To begin with, we’ll want the word for party, which comes from lok, meal, and rook, tribe or family group: lok-ryu-rook (meal for the whole tribe), Lokurook. From this word you get Lokook, /lō ‘ko͝ok/ party, as well as lokozh, a grand festival or large meal at a gathering.
(See the post on trade).
Recently, the term lokurdin – from derdin, friends, from diednerdin (obsolete), who who trusts another, from ner, trust – has risen to prominence. A meal-for-friends is a completely social gathering, often with alcoholic drinks featuring heavily.
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The Calenyena have two words they use to mean “over done, gaudy, frivolous.”
The first comes from the Tabersi {Bitrani} words for “wide-brim”, fanada lerjo.
Although the Tabersi use broad-brimmed hats for a number of sensible reasons, not the least of them being that they are a cold-weather-adapted race that migrated south and tend to sunburn, they also wear some pretty ridiculous hats, at least by Calenyena lights, and thus “wide brimmed” became a term of disparagement. In Calenyen, this became baanaadaaler /’bän nä ‘dä ler/.
The second term comes from the West-Coasters {Arran}, from the city of Sheburri, which was known for being a fashion hub. To be immensely overdressed for a situation (“silk in the goat pen” is another phrase for it) is to be like someone from Sheburri, zhebburnon.
If you are thinking you have to be pretty overdone for the Calenyen to find you ridiculous… well, that’s not entirely inaccurate.
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Today’s words focus on basic grooming, combing and brushing:
lool, to pull apart
dalool /’da lo͞ol/ a tool for pulling apart, a comb
dalooltez, a goat-hair comb
lurret, to smooth (from lur, smooth, easy)
(-ret is often used to mean “to make this [adjective]”)
Daluret, a tool for smoothing, a brush
Daloolza, to use a comb; dalurretza, to use a brush.
(-za is often used when using a tool)
Hair, human hair, is piem, so you can end up with a sentence like: Taikie piem-ba uveedalurretzaak; Taikie hair-her (pastperfect)-brush-(subject/verb agreement); Taikie had brushed her hair.
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thnidu responded to yesterday’s post by asking me to create the sentence “I made a sentence”. So!
laar, I
taar, you, subject
taarte, you two, and so on.
baar, he/she (person pronoun)
baarrte, those two, and so on.
archaic: baan, baante and so on (she, a group of only women).
gaan, it (animal/thing pronoun)
laanaan, me
taannan, you-object (taannante, you two and so on)
baarnan, her/him
gaanran, it-object.
Okay, phew, there’s pronouns, so.
I made a sentence
Make, to create, to craft: Tair (this word, from an old word meaning “skill,” which can also be seen in -tairook, “with care” or “with practiced care. Throwing something together or making something that isn’t perceived as needing skill is died, from diedie, toss, this from the same root as dudiedah, tumble, from the loss post.)
Sentence!
we start with
iekiek, this exists (See also iekiekyent, a known fact.)
tel-, that which voices
teliekiek, that which give voice to an existing thing
telkiek
Need a break for some tea…
(This is the part where I need a punctuation to suggest the beginning of a sentence in my con-script, since I don’t have capitals.)
Laar telkiek ezhtairak: I sentence (past tense)-make-(subject agreement)
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Today we get a phrase!
“This barley grows here.”
toppotzhu
barley, toppot
-zhu, -this
here, ikiek
toor, to grow
in- currently, presently
-anan conjugating a verb to a plural useful subject
toppotzhu ikiek intooranan
This means somewhere between “that was then, this is now” and “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” with maybe a bit of “que sera, sera.” The Calenyena, who began life as a herding culture, use this phrase to answer changes in environment that they cannot alter.
It colors their attitude towards food and crops: this is the food we can grow here. It also informs the way they look at gods; these are the gods we have now.
It’s a philosophy, and, of course, not everyone always adheres to it. Sometimes it’s just the phrase a parent uses to answer complaints by a child. “You can’t always have what you want; this barley grows here.”
It’s useful to note that most Calenyena use barley, toppot, to loosely describe all cereal grains.
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lilfluff asked for words for games, and from there for words for winning and losing.
Winning! And losing…
The Calenyena have three sets of words for winning and losing: in games for fun, in games with a prize/in a single battle, and in a large war or conflict.
Pol is an archaic word which once meant to fall. (Falling, as from a goat, is now duddie, from Dudiedah, tumble). It now means to lose shamefully – where you could win something.
Pyuh is for when one suffers small, unimportant loss. We were playing Monopoly and I lost.
Darnietda comes from an old word meaning to slip and fall (into the river) It now means “to lose” in a large way, for instance, “The Bitrani lost the war.”
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Tea is a new-world discovery for the Bitrani and Calenyen both, found growing in the far south and especially on the southern islands of Reiassan.
At the initial stages of colonization, there were Calenyena (Ideztozhyuh) doing much of the hard labor of clearing the land; they were the ones who first discovered the bitter leaves of the bush could be stewed into a kind of drink.
They called it dyil, at first, and then dil. The Bitrani called the plant nevenah and the drink nevenanan, and from that the Calenyena began calling the drink nev. In modern parlance, dil is the plant, and nev the drink.
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chanter_greenie asked about music!
In keeping with the idea of god-words (from alder, earlier today), we look at the Tabersi (Proto-Bitrano) god/dess Alivetta/Alibetto.
This deity, one of a collection of dual-natured or dual-gendered gods in the old Tabersi pantheon, inspired the arts. Alivetta/Alibetto began as the overseer of all arts, but by the time of the Gods Purge had long since been relegated only to music, and often only to instrumental music.
Alittao is the art of instrumental music in Bitrani; in Calenyena, this becomes Litvaano, music (as played), and Libbaano, music as sung.
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