Languary Day (11 & 12), collections, tools, and -like

[aldersprig]

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)

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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.

Comments

[inventrix]

Tangential observation: for a language you wanted to be very fricative, you're using your non-fricative consonants a lot.

[aldersprig]

*notes* good point. I'll weight the zompist better for the next one.

[inventrix]

What order do you have your consonants in?

[aldersprig]

tdsbfɸθ(sh)hmn

[thnidu]

Depending on how easy or difficult the input is for you, you can use for "sh":
š as in Czech and some other Eastern European languages
ş as in Romanian and Turkish
ŝ as in Esperanto
ʃ as in the International Phonetic Alphabet
§ or $ just because they look like S

[aldersprig]

sadly, it wouldn't take $ in zompist :-( I ended up using q, because I wasn't using it, but ʃ makes much more sense!

[thnidu]

Or, as I just realized, x as in Portuguese

x is also used in Hanyu Pinyin, the official English transcription for Chinese, for a sound similar to English "sh" though not identical.

[aldersprig]

x is standing in for Ch already :-)

[inventrix]

Oh, well, that explains why t d and b keep showing up a lot. ;)

**edit: I've been using j to stand for sh in mine

[clare_dragonfly]

Zompist... vocab generator? ::investigates:: Ooh! Wait, this looks familiar. ::investigates further:: Aha, instead of generating a list of words to use, it gives you a long string of lorem ipsum-like text. That's why I stopped using it in favor of that other vocabulary generator. However! It now has a distinct advantage over that other vocabulary generator in that it still works. So I can use it to make more words!

Yay!

[aldersprig]

It will ALSO give you a list of words. Or sylllabybs.

[clare_dragonfly]

Aha, "big-ass wordlist" is how you get an actual list! That table was confusing my brain (specifically, where long words run up against short ones, because there are no lines).

[aldersprig]

Yep!