#Lexember post iIne - Conlanging objects in the Cālenyan world - Posers and Fakes

[aldersprig]

This was going to be a post about colours!

And I have those, too:
kāt - red
lenal - orange
patō - yellow
tōtyō - green
dēdun - blue
bezhya - indigo
galō - purple
leten - black
telun - white
lēlē - grey

Then I realized that red-face (or face-red) is a reference to the war leader, for the paint they once used to mark themselves in battle.

kalō - face
kalōkāt - red-face, war-leader - this leads to kalokākab (big war leader) --> calenkat --> Cālenta (calenka?)
kalōlen - orange-face. This is a courtesan or a "fancy lady," from the proto-Bitrani women the Cālenyena encountered who painted their face with an orangey-red cosmetic.

And, from the fact that both of these leave a yellow residue when hastily wiped off:

kalōpatō - Yellow-face, someone lying about what they are, a fake.

Which led me to
tezyu - goat-hair
lanut - braid

And lanutez goat-hair braid: someone who is pretending to be something they're not, a poser.

Comments

[capriox]

Those are all also terms!!! I <3 idiom!

[aldersprig]

You like?!

[capriox]

replace the word "also" with "awesome"

apparently I can't type today *blush*

[aldersprig]

That makes SO MUCH more sense! :-D

[thnidu]

Put not thy trust in spellchuckers [sic], for they know not a word from its homophone. (Or much else, either.)