Re: Lexeme Request: Water and Fire

David J. Peterson wrote:

>I'm giving another talk on language creation this coming Tuesday,
>and I had a very simple request.  I'd like to gather some samples
>of the words (nouns, hopefully) for "fire" and "water" in a bunch
>of different conlangs.  Since this is related to conlanging, you can
>reply onlist, but there might be a bunch of replies, in which case
>offlist replies are fine.  To get the ball rolling, here's the words for
>"fire" and "water" in several of my conlangs:
>
In Vbazi:

njele     +  biwliw   =>  njelebiwliw = water
beggining +  liquid

so "njelebiwliw" is like the scientist version of the word but it is
contracted in "lebi" in normal use


gaidz   +  gyl   =>  gaidzdyl /gaidz=dEl/ = fire
motion  +  heat

so again "gaidzdyl" is a scientific version usually contracted into "gajyl"
/gajEl/


The word for water, "lebi" is also found in other water-related words but
often as "le"

river = ele
little river = thiile (thiib = to be little/littleness/small thing or
person)
mud/swamp = phyqlbi /p_hENl=bi/ (phyq = ground)

But others use the word for rain, "hiit" /hi:t/

lake = hityn (tyn = territory)
ice = hiiniiz (niiz = solid)


- Max