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Prinsessa wrote:And it is related to Germanic words for a bird: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix: ... kahw%C5%8D

Interesting.

It is also related with the Russian говорить (to speak) and with the Polish „gaworzyć“ (to babble).

clawgrip wrote: 積もる tsumoru pile up; accumulate
見積もる mitsumoru estimate; calculate (esp. cost of something)

This made me think of the English „size up“.

Very cool examples. I don’t know Japanese, but my current conlang is doing something very similar.

My current conlang doesn’t have anything like it, because I designed it in a way that does away with most adpositions. It does have a minimal set of prefixes for diminutives and stuff like that. It has compound words but formed from two lexical roots. The conlang I worked on before that had triconso...

Interesting. I have been thinking how these sentences would be rendered in my native tongue (Polish): <Skryptu używano w pismach religijnych po Epoce Brązu.> script-GEN was_used in text-PL-LOC religious-PL-LOC after age-SG-LOC bronze-SG-GEN. + <tylko> = only The grammatically correct ones would be: ...

dialektu [gʷvo̞rɨ] Whoa, Polish spelling's a bitch! [xD] ( It's Lambuzhao's fault I ended up here. ) That’s because the text in brackets is in his dialect. <gwora> comes from Polish <gwara> which means dialect, more or less. So yeah, Polish spelling is a bitch, but not as much as he made it seem.

Hi everyone. I am relatively new to conlanging but find it very fun.

I have recently registered on the zompist’s forum where I go by the same username.

I wasn’t planning on registering here, but I found some threads I want to participate in, so here I am.