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Re: Help finding/creating words!

Unread post by Vlet Hansen » 18 Apr 2014 03:08

Argen Tium wrote:
Vlet Hansen wrote:Left: Payt
I'd go with Ib'ca'nara for "now"

I'd also like some help with structural words, like wall, door, floor...
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Re: Help finding/creating words!

Unread post by Argen Tium » 18 Apr 2014 03:44

Vlet Hansen wrote: I'd also like some help with structural words, like wall, door, floor...
mircin = cage

we could use that as a root and then use directionals to indicate a wall or floor or ceiling.

e.g roof = laam'mirci (up-cage)
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Unread post by Vlet Hansen » 18 Apr 2014 04:56

That seems really derivative, tough. Words that basic shouldn't be euphemistic.
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Unread post by Argen Tium » 18 Apr 2014 05:23

Vlet Hansen wrote:That seems really derivative, tough. Words that basic shouldn't be euphemistic.
well I am new. but yeah I'd agree.
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Unread post by MsLanna » 25 Apr 2014 22:15

I need a word for 'perfection'.

I have no idea where I got 'balmanda' from. Would that somehow work?

Perfection as something that is very mucht itself that is is actually itself and heaven?
Adjective 'balmandyc'?
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Unread post by Vlet Hansen » 26 Apr 2014 01:24

mar'yc? Like, the thing you've been looking for so long and this fits perfectly?
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Re: Help finding/creating words!

Unread post by Taung Kar'ta » 01 Aug 2014 03:40

Need some help with to get/to receive
Closest I got was dar'dinuir=no longer give, but that isn't really accurate to the intent.
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Unread post by Vlet Hansen » 01 Aug 2014 13:13

Hiibir?
Maybe?
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Unread post by MsLanna » 01 Aug 2014 19:36

What about contractiong can/be able or make/crete with have/posses?
li'ganar, lisanar, gota'ganar
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Unread post by Taung Kar'ta » 05 Aug 2014 22:28

MsLanna wrote:What about contractiong can/be able or make/crete with have/posses?
li'ganar, lisanar, gota'ganar
gota'ganar is what I'm gonna go with as it is more a statement of fact rather than possibility. I suggest contracting it further to gota'nar though as I found it flowed better.

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Unread post by MsLanna » 18 Sep 2014 06:07

Have we come up with a word for 'regret' yet?
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Unread post by Vlet Hansen » 18 Sep 2014 20:37

That's a tricky one, and I feel like it's more of a candidate for a real, new word. It's too esoteric and essential a thing to hack together agglutinatively, IMHO.
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Unread post by Vazquar Tra'tabuur » 20 Sep 2014 18:22

I think perhaps "du'trikar" (from the words du'car and trikar) might work for regret. My logic being that regret seems to have a meaning of sadness about something after the fact (I could be parsecs off, as I don't know the exact definition of regret), and du'trikar seems to convey the same meaning to me. Any thoughts?
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Unread post by MsLanna » 20 Sep 2014 23:25

For me the essence of regret is that you had the chance to do something* and you didn't. And no matter what, at the end of the day/year/life you will think 'had I only...'

Sadness is definitely part of it. As are self-criticsm and the desire to have acted differnetly. Maybe the awareness that it si something you get no second chance to do or even amend.



* Or not do something but uslayy we regret the things we didn't do more than those we did.
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Unread post by Vazquar Tra'tabuur » 05 Nov 2014 17:40

I've been thinking of a way to say regret in Mando'a, taking into consideration the points you raised, and I think some combination of trattok'or (or some variation of it) and trikar might work. Any thoughts/suggestions?
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Re: Help finding/creating words!

Unread post by aren vaal » 13 Nov 2014 07:17

Vode...

Looking for a word for Freedom. Mav is free, but I'm unsure how to convert it into "the condition of being free." Any thoughts?

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Unread post by Vlet Hansen » 13 Nov 2014 21:57

I suspect Mav functions as the noun as well. I'm not sure what the semantic difference between mav and mav'la would be, though.
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Re: Help finding/creating words!

Unread post by aren vaal » 15 Nov 2014 06:36

Mav'la...duh. Ner mirsh solus, ibic tuur'e LOL.

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Re: Help finding/creating words!

Unread post by aren vaal » 19 Nov 2014 07:00

Ok, here's a tough one: nuclear/atomic (as in nuclear-powered/atomic power). Can't find anything close on the list, so how do we compound-word it?
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Unread post by Vlet Hansen » 19 Nov 2014 14:54

That's a tricky one. I'll think on it today at work, but I suspect it needs a word of its own...
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