Quoting Costentin Cornomorus <[log in to unmask]>:

> --- Wesley Parish <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > a new conlang has reared its ugly head in my
> > conworld of Yhe Ghye-Ineat, The
> > World of Light, blood dripping from its mouth
> > from its latest kill, and the
> > sweetest smile upon its dial.
> >
> > Its name is above - to wit:
> > esa emban wa waesa
> > this/the speech/language of/from -or
> > (preposed actor particle)
> >
> > nkhara goshu
> > to hunt free
> >
> > The speech/language of the Free Huntresses.
>
> Whenever anyone uses a curiously moded word like
> huntress, we have to ask about the L1 it's
> translated from. The interlinear notes only agent
> particle plus infinitive yields noun. Is the
> feminine basic a normal feature of this language,

Yes.  The society's the same as the matriarchal (crocuta-based GE/M-ed human)
Lakhabrech one I've previously talked about; this is just a different
branching of it.  I submitted a story in the basic Lakhabrech cycle to an
online SF mag, and though they didn't take it, the discussion with the editor
triggered some more creativity.

> such that the male form is especially marked? If
> there are any, how is "male hunter" realised?

By a preposed particle marking "masculine" - "iro"

iro    waesa  nkhara
(male) (-or)  to hunt

interposing it eg, waesa iro nkhara, makes an absurdity; postposing it eg
waesa nkara iro
makes yet another absurdity, because iro is the root/stem for "masculinity",
"male", etc, and you can't have a naked root/stem as an object - which is how
it would sound.

>
> > The most interesting feature is that it has a
> > CVCV pattern for verbs - nkhara
>
> Suppose that N is not syllabic here!

It's treated by the language's native speakers in the way that Fijian treats
the nasal-plosive/dental consonantal combination - as a single consonant.
>
> > So there are
> > some stories about their adventures and
> > misadventures and the establishment
> > of the first midwife when it became apparent
> > that that was where the power lay ... ;^)
>
> Interesting! You'll have to tell us more about
> these power wielding midwives.

Shoot through to http://masalai.free.fr/
The two Lakhabrech stories I've got there are a start, but only on the Great
South Sea (Inland Sea, I might add) people.  esa waesa nkhara goshu - the Free
Huntresses - live in the Northern Hemisphere in a plateau that winds down into
a valley that leads to a small inland sea that touches the Arctic Circle.

One of the people there - a venya (strongwoman/chieftainess) rejoicing in the
name of Nu Kra'Yishela Venya; people have alleged she gave herself that name,
because "kra" is "shapely" and "yishela" is "body" - has already turned up in
a previous posting, along with some details about her language.

esa waesa nkara goshu have been enemies with atai waesa nkara en dare - those
Enslaved Huntreses; the people of Nu Kra'Yishela Venya - for around forty
thousand years.

Wesley Parish
>
> Padraic.
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I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the
other horizon.