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Lexember 2019

(Originally posted at Silver Does Stuff)


I’m doing Lexember again and unlike before I’m actually way ahead! My focus this year was using the various derivation affixes and adding some essential words. This is going to be a long entry, so cut time!

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Lexember 2017 - Nyjichxn #6


I don’t get to garden today. The Santa Ana winds damaged the fence so one of my roommates and the neighbor are fixing it. So instead, ya’ll get updates! Yay!


One of the fun but sometimes frustrating things about translating is that you keep finding situations where what you did before doesn’t work. This is one of them. In previous sentences got the accusative case marker, but it could be replaced by the answer. So, new rule was noted: can’t be replaced by an object answering the question, it’s unmarked.


Lexeme: sɯa
Gloss: world, planet
Combination Form:

Stress: IPA: Ŋyjichɯn phonetic:
Singular: sɯa sɯa sɯa
Paucal: soosɯ soo ˈsɜːʔ.zɯ soo’zɯ
Plural: sɯasɯ sɯa sɯɜ.ˈzɯ sɯozɯ

Example Usage:


suizɯasɯn sychiyvmowza zɯ
sɯa<uiz>ɯa-sɯn symow-za (stem: syza)
planet<PEJ>planet-ACC origin<1s.SBJ-3s.POBJ>you-origin what
What damn planet are you from?
Phonetic: suisɯazɯŋ sijiyvmoza
IPA: sʊy.ˈsɯa.zɯŋ sy.ˈdʒɪiv.ɱɜ.ˌza

PEJ = pejorative


Singular, Paucal, and Plural




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I've come up with a bunch of words for Nyjichxn because I was on a roll, but I have to do all the fiddly bits before they're ready to share. It won't be tomorrow, because I'm going to a thing. Probably won't be Sunday because I'm going to prune the heck outta the tomatoes and do other gardening crap. But those eight words are coming soon. See full post at https://wp.me/p2sEtx-zQ
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Lexember 2017 - Ie, Part 1


Ie was supposed to just be a naming language for use in my Shard-verse stories, but me being me, it’s grown a bit. I’m trying to restrain myself because I don’t need another big project AND I still can’t actually make names in it.


Since it’s a lot simpler than Ŋyjichɯn, being an isolating language, I’ll be doing a bunch at a time. I’ll give the IPA in parentheses.



  • 44b – ornament, decoration (zu˧.χəp˧)

  • 6zu1 – name, title, to call (tʃy˧˩˥.zʊ̜˥)

  • tyōu5 – flower, bloom (thjəʊ̜˧˥)

  • diu1 – keep, possess, hold (tiŭ˥)

  • diu1-wŭĭ7j – writing, to write (tiŭ˥.ɰuyj˩). From diu1 + ŭĭ7j (word)


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Lexember 2017 - Nyjichxn #5


Lexeme: rozvya

Gloss: anger, angry

Irregularity: Noun – Type 1 (no plural or paucal)

Stress: rozvya

Phonetic (IPA / Ŋyjichɯn transliteration): ⱱɜ.ˈzia / βozya

Combination Form: βozy


And with that I’m caught up, at least for Ŋyjichɯn


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Lexember 2017 – Nyjichxn #4


Lexeme: vijjoa

Gloss: emotion, feeling, characteristic, attribute


Stress: IPA: Ŋyjichɯn phonetic:
Singular: vijjoa vijjoa vʏ.ˈzɜa vizoa
Paucal: vijjooj vijjoojo vʏ.ˈdʒɜːʔ.dʒɜ vijoo’jo
Plural: vijjojo vijjojo vʏ.ˈdʒa.dʒɜ vijajo

Listen (singular, paucal, plural):



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Lexeme: tywsiɯj
Gloss: cold, fragile, brittle
Stress: tywsiɯj
Phonetic (IPA / Ŋyjichɯn transliteration): ˈɾil.sɪɯdʒ / rylsiɯj
Combination Form: ryj

I have to check - the combination form may have to change. I suspect it's really close to some other ones.

And how it's said:

See full post at https://wp.me/p2sEtx-zt
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Lexeme: nuɒβu
Gloss: wind, draft, breeze
Irregularity: Combo - Type 2 (formed from plural)
Combination Form: muβɯβ





Stress:
IPA:
Ŋyjichɯn phonetic:


Singular:
nuɒβu
nuɒβu
ɱoɜ.ˈⱱɯ
muoβɯ


Paucal:
nuɒβɯɯβu
nuɒβɯɯβu
ɱoɜ.ˈⱱɯːʔ.ⱱʊ
muoβɯɯβu


Plural:
nuɒβuβu
nuɒβuβu
ɱoɜ.ˈⱱ.ⱱʊ
muoβuβu



Listen:



And here's how Ŋyjichɯn is said:



And the lexeme from yesterday:

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Lexember 2017 - Nyjichxn #1


Yup, doing Lexember again this year. Yup, I’m behind. The plan is actually to do it for the two languages I’m working on, Ŋyjichɯn and Ie. I’ll have to get caught up on Ie later, but it’s easier because it doesn’t have all the alternation and crap that Ŋyjichɯn does.


Anyway, here’s my first lexeme for the month:


Lexeme: chyjɒovi

Gloss: ice, slush, freeze

Irregularity: Noun – Type 1 (no plural or paucal)

Stress: chyjɒovi

Phonetic (IPA / Ŋyjichɯn transliteration): ˈtʃi.dʒɑɜ.ˌvʏ / chyjɒovi


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These are words that’ll let me translate stuff that I have noted in my lexicon to translate, so it’s a bit random. jaŋ – choose, decide, decision, choice. IPA: dʒaŋ chɯnchɯŋ – to retell, to tell a story, to narrate; a story, tale, or narration. From chɯŋ, to speak or tell. IPA: tʃɯn.sɯŋ fiβkii – to wear, a piece of clothing. … Continue reading “”

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Trying to catch up. These are all body parts. A couple are expansions of other meanings (I’m only including significant additions) and those have all the info. The rest I’m not taking the time to make the plurals and pronunciation and everything else. liiwnɒ – spine or snake. related to lin, long and narrow vooriy – attempt, … Continue reading “”

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Lexember 5

Dec. 8th, 2016 09:37 pm
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I’m a bit behind, but I’ll catch up tomorrow or so. I’m trying to get the entries in my lexicon that are in progress finished so I can tell what I’m missing. There’s about sixty of them. Anyway, here’s a word derived from an entry I worked on today. Lexeme: kymiirary Gloss: to frighten, to scare, […]

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I suppose I should give some quick background on my language. It’s called Ŋyjichɯn ( /ɱɪ.ˈdʒi.ʧɯŋ/ ) Because of its stress and alternation the pronunciation doesn’t match the spelling, although it’s predictable if a bit complicated. It’s a polysynthetic language with heavy noun incorporation, affixing, and reduplication. The default word order is SOV, but in practice the most … Continue reading “”

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I decided to do Lexember this year. For those of you who aren’t conlangers, that means I add a lexeme (basically a word) to my conlang everyday and share it. So, yay! Lexeme: sai Gloss: a common tree with smooth speckled bark and large lobed leaves Irregularity: Static Noun Combination Form: sai Stress: IPA: Nyjichɯn … Continue reading “”

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