Colanging – categories…

[silvercat17]

Mirrored from Shenanigans - Curiously Lydean.

I’m working on vocabulary building in Ŋyjichɯn. Specifically, I’m working on not repeating words (I found I had ‘touch’ twice, for example) and using the words I have to derive more words. At the moment, that means categorizing words, into things like family, food, basic verbs, etc.

Which is where the trouble comes in. How do you define ‘basic verb’? (Right now: anything that doesn’t fall into another category). How do you categorize something like ‘repeat’? How about ’cause’? At least, without adding a hundred categories, which is then much less than useful.

I dunno. I’ll take opinions (I can post a list of categories and words I’m having difficulty with, if anybody wants to help.) I should probably post this to the conlang forum…