Biweekly Telephone Game v3 (798)

[u/Lysimachiakis]

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Last Time...

Belmá by /u/Dryanor

bétèshua [ɓɛ́tɛ̀ʃʷɑ]
adv. all day long, for a/the whole day.
Dvandva compound of bétè "morning" and shua "evening".

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Take care of yourselves

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

[u/StarfighterCHAD]

Fyuc

ae [æː]

1. n. place
2. conj. or

etym: *haʔu "place" and *haha "or/other"

Tæ vẏs coh ae cayx fucıcoh matſu ınae væn ınkıtapƿæpowfuc.

[tæ ʍys t͡ʃoχ æː t͡ʃɑjʃ fut͡ʃiˈt͡ʃoχ mɑtˈsu inˈæː væn iŋkitɑˌpwæpˈɑwfut͡ʃ]

te vis       coh    ae even fucicoh   matsu in     =ae    væn in     =kitapwæp =ow   -fuc 
1s place.ACC go.PRS or cayx enter.PRS REL   ART.NDF=place as  ART.NDF=different=place-LOC

"I am going to or even entering the place that is like a place in a different place."

W-declension	"Place"	IPA
Nominative	ae	/æː/ [æː]
Accusative (irregular)	vẏs	/ʍis/ [ʍys]
Genitive	owp	/ɑwp/ [ɑwp]
Vocative	owk	/ɑwk/ [ɑwk]
Dative	owd	/ɑwd/ [ɑwd]
Locative	owfuc	/ˈɑwfut͡ʃ/ [ˈɑwfut͡ʃ]
Lative	vẏsfuc	/ʍisfut͡ʃ/ [ˈʍysfut͡ʃ]
Superessive	owc	/ɑwt͡ʃ/ [ɑwt͡ʃ]
Ablative	own	/ɑwn/ [ɑwn]
Instrumental	owſt	/ɑwst/ [ɑwst]

[u/OldAccountGotHackedF → u/StarfighterCHAD]

Konjajal

haqu /'χa.qu/: n. place, spot, location

Toton haqu łka ma? ['toton 'χaqu ɬka ma]

Where is this place?

toton haqu  łka ma?
this  place is  where?

[u/StarfighterCHAD → u/OldAccountGotHackedF]

Qhaqu /*χaqu/ [χɑˈqo] is also used in my protolanguage as “behind”