I’m trying something new with the upcoming serial – essentially asking the prompter-level donors to fill in parts of the serial description.
Clare filled in the first blank, giving us the Serial Family of hikers.
MB & @Dahob filled in the next two, so now I have: Once, there was a [(Family of Hikers)] who lived in a [(tropical)] [(sky island)].
Here’s your tropical sky island: https://www.patreon.com/posts/serial-islands-4839730
I’m trying something new with the upcoming serial – essentially asking the prompter-level donors to fill in parts of the serial description (you can see it in my reward-tier profile).
clare_dragonfly filled in the first blank, so I have:
Once, there was a [person or group of people(Family of Hikers)]…
Here they are:
Okay, today I think we wrap up the Derivational Morphology.
What I have left on Zompist’s list is:
augmentative, firf-, in rare cases, -irf
inhabitant, rur-
negative, -eal, lea-
sseabshub, dog, noun
a big dog, firsseabshub.
an undog, leasseabshub
hetfa, to do
to undo, hetfeal
Mrotnisha, to study, mrotnishal, studious
supremely studious, mrotnishalief
unstudious, mrotnishaleal
American person, Rurmerica
French Person, Rurfrance
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Some more Derivational Morphology for today!
causative & diminutive
Noun today is Fire, phan and verb is shout, teafa
Causative, -alt, talt-
to enfire, taltphana (because we’re verbing a noun it gets an -a at the end)
to make-shout, teafalta (and the A moves to the end here.)
And diminutive, which is an irregular affix in that it always goes at the end!!
-een, or if very small, eeneen
A starting fire, tiny fire, a spark, phaneen
Shouting just a little, or a cute shout, teafeena
Little Phluf the scholar, Phlufeen.
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And yet more Derivational morphology!
Okay, so, I started off with the state of being, turning a noun or a verb into a noun.
and then I did noun-people and verb-people.
Today’s nouns are pheassat, word, and dotfit, map
collection
dird-
Dirdphessat, a word-collection, a lexicon.
Dirdotfit, a map-collection, an atlas
(Fotafa, to run, fotafird, a planned series of runs)
Even more Derivational morphology!
Next up: tools and characteristic adjectives.
Our verb for this bit is deassa, to cut, and our noun is Toshtod, bread.
-urd, “used for”
deassurd, a cutting-thing.
durtoshtod, a bread-plate
-al, “like,” “characteristic of”
deassal, cut-like (this would be, say “it cuts like a knife,” sharp pain, often metaphoric.
laltoshtod, breadlike.
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Today is more Derivational morphology!
Okay, so, I started off with the state of being, turning a noun or a verb into a noun.
For today’s part, we’re going to go with the noun book, futheat and read, ssru (an irregular verb)
Associated Person
a book-person! Actually, first, a reading person, a reader:
Ssrussolss
When adding a suffix to a word ending in a vowel, repeat the ending consonant at the beginning of the suffix.
and then a book-person:
Ssolfutheat
When moving a -VLC suffix to prefix, repeat the ending C in the beginning. If it is prefixing (a rule here that includes sh and other awkward sounds), remove the ending C in the prefix.
In this case, a reader, ssrussolss, is one who discerns the ancient texts. A ssolfutheat is one who keeps the books, a librarian.
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Turning things into other things!
(Derivational morphology)
because Whispers Drop started out with a very small vocabulary (for plot-based reasons), it is very heavy on suffixes and prefixes to derive more meaning from one word.
For examples:
shef is cat
fena is to slink
“process or state” -orf
That would, technically, be “slinkage” or “the process of slinking across the hall, WHY did I pick slink?
fenorf, slinkage.
And, ah, cattiness, the state of being cat (because this is a noun, it is a prefix) For(f)shef, forshef
When moving a -VLC suffix to prefix, repeat the ending C in the beginning. If it is prefixing (a rule here that includes sh and other awkward sounds), remove the ending C in the prefix.
And there, we have one derivational morphology!
I can get /days/ out of this.
Which is good, because I’m way behind.
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anke asked for birds.
I already have kahger a hunting bird of prey and kyahg, a nuisance scavenger/carnivore bird
There are, of course, dozens and dozens of birds. But I’ll pick out one for fun.
Tiez is a bird, in general – winged thing, feathers, lays eggs.
TiezLibbaa is a songbird.
And TiezLibbaa Ekondonkee-rul, Ekondonkee’s songbird, often called the tiez-kon, is a bright blue songbird who nests in the northern reaches of the continent. They are known for springtime song, and a family of them nested in the tent of the warlord Ekondonkee, who has since been forgotten except in the name of the bird.
/’tēz lib ‘bä ‘e kōn ‘dōn kē ‘rəl/
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Let it Shine, Let it Shine, Let it Shine
I already have the word for shine! It’s -lar
(I did the beginning of a series of conlang exercises here
And a lamp is Tezhet; the lamp shines – Tezhet alaraak.
But before there were lamps there were candles: dapairdie /da ‘pīr dē/, from pair, light, -do, to give, da-, a thing that does.
and inventrix asked for Cons.
iekiekyent is a known fact, a part of existence.
telnyent: truth-known, i.e, “the sky is blue.”
Kelnyent is the sort of truth that you’re pretty sure about
So a confidence game is a turning the truth sideways.
To turn sideways is gazh; to turn something else sideways is ragazh.
You end up with Kelneyt ragazh, a turning-sideways of your perceptions.
And, like con, this gets shortened to kelryag, a con.
Above list reproduced here – http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=40026
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The Calenyena love color, really, really love color. Everything about their world is bright and colorful.
Here are just a few color words:
I have already kat, red, len, orange, and paato, yellow.
gomol, from the old gom, means green. It is speculated the the -ol brings it closer to the Bitrani word for green, miagermo
Tien, from the old teetaanzhun, sky-like, is blue, a broad term encompassing most shades, as are kat and gomol.
And just because we only had it tucked into another word -liz means “brightly rainbow-colored.”
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