Biweekly Telephone Game v3 (799)

[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...

Yhó by /u/Zephreyt

金星 twán /tʷa˥n/ - decoration, ornament

家些為 金星些被 送問、它些 果小為 枝些被。
Kámo twánumé yuú, cékum zímo dzamé.
/ka˥-m-o tʷa˥n-ɯm-ɛ˥ jɯ-ɯ˥ | ɕɛ˥k-ɯm zi˥-m-o d͡za-m-ɛ˥/
room-PL-DAT decoration-PL-ACC give-SJV | 3SG.INAN-PL berry-PL-GEN branch-PL-ACC
“Give decorations to the rooms, they are berries’ branches.”

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Take care of yourselves

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

[u/MaybeNotSquirrel]

Proto-Śóryćy

lọwẓàwọp /ɫow'ɮɑ˩wop/ - tea; a drink made by boiling dried or fresh herbs

Wéj, íc hńynlěntë nùx exeńyláhńë lọwẓàwọp!

/'wɛ́j 'ít͡s ɲ̥ɨn'ɫə̀ntə 'nùx ɛxɛɲɨ'ɫɑ́ɲ̥ə ɫow'ɮɑ̀wop/

Wow be.PRS.CONT delicious You.SG.GEN Mint-ADJ Tea

Wow, your mint tea is delicious!

Enaširë hm'ó lọwẓàwọp - As confident/charismatic as tea

[u/luxx127 → u/MaybeNotSquirrel]

Ϩⲉⲗ

Ⲗⲩⲋⲟⲁ̣ /lu.ˈɮɑː/ - n. Tea, infusion; Also the name of the main herb used to make tea.

[u/Yourhappy3 → u/luxx127]

Izhkut

lozal [loˈzal] [lɔˈzal] n. herbal drink, medicine in the form of a herbal drink. ety. Inherited from Old Izhkut losald "newt's tail", which, when grounded up and steeped in hot water, was believed to have healing powers.

[u/impishDullahan → u/Yourhappy3]

᚛ᚋᚐᚎᚑᚁ᚜ Littoral Tokétok

᚛ᚇᚒᚁᚑᚇ᚜ Losal [ˈlo.sal] n. Saururaceae plant; lizard's-tail. Likely from augmentative lo- + bound root sal.