Sally Caves <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> We were talking just a few days ago about the _Lingua Ignota_.  I'vedone this
very
> thing when making up vocabulary (nouns) for Teonaht.   I was
> going to suggest that we conlangers produce some taxonomies similar
> to Hildegard's:   Let's see a list from some of you with at least twenty
items
> in each of these categories:
>
>     1.  God, gods, angels, saints, and demons.

AFMCL Drasele'q (word count :

Elan "The Eternal" (the God of the Illuminated)
elas (just a god)
Tarrag "the Devil" (evil force(s) of the world)
Oldeni^l Di'ndimbal "Oldeni^l the Illuminated One"

The forces of nature:
Aro^ng, "Chaos"
Mere^k, "Order"
Eha^p, "Lighy"
Peve'n "Darkness"
Alosta "Cold"
Posse "Heat"
Atthu'ndnotsel Duqis "The Unnamed Force"

Other gods:
Gresse^nq (lord of the mountains)
Skoi`m (lord of the marshes)
Otsung (lord of the sea)
Rodhre'l (lady of growth and spring)
Pa`rvat (lady of fertility)
Anu"vor (god of fire)
Nifa^n (lord of fire [another one])
Rreiful (lady of iron and patron of the smiths)
Tegnam (god of luck)
Sienqgam (god of justice, brother of Tegnam)
Fensi^l (the Dark One, lord of the night spirits, madness and fear)
Ha'pseret (the Clear One, sister of Fensi^l)
Srothlon (the hand of death)
Mi'lmenqgran (lady of birth and the unborn children)

(I've been working on this!)


>     2.  Human family relationships.

teus "child, offspring"
teumus "son"
teuvas "daughter"
nerr(id) "mother"
uld(id) "father"
ululdid "grandfather"

and combinations.

>     3.  The parts of the body.

mer "mouth"
ne`th "head"
qan "face"
rru`s "leg"
na"t "arm"
sto`m "chest"
ku"rus "knee"
gep "eye"
vaid "finger/toe"
fith "foot"
idan "hand"
qola"d "iris"


>     4.  Diseases of the body.

Just one general term:

trioqain "disease, sickness"


>     5.  Names relating to Church or Religion

oldoren  "priest" (lit. yellow-man, man in yellow)
tarfra"'th  "religion, cult"
thalmor "soul" (from thalm- "door", the soul is the "inner room")


>     6.  Names relating to Secular Hierarchies, the parts of Government

dantur "king"
danteumus "prince"
danteuvas "princess"
qlonenqgron "great lord, emperor"
dhidenqgrig "little lord, governor of a province"
ulienqgrig  "patriarch, head of the family"
dansniton "royal counselor, minister, court negotiator"
(dan)kamp "counselor"
kasi^b "commander, general"


>     7.  The parts of trade and human craft.

Not many so far... Though I could make a few derivations.


>     8.  Days, months, seasons of the year, hours, minutes.

The 12 months and the extra "week":

   Name                                Begins  Lasts (days)

 1 namis ["new one"]                   25/Oct    30
 2 tenthemel ["repeats itself"]        24/Nov    29
 3 mu"nvu"ris ["end of the first"]     23/Dec    30
 4 qa`ni'var ["very much heat"]        22/Jan    29
 5 rrompla'nth ["big apples"]          20/Feb    30
 6 klanvu"ris ["end of the second"]    22/Mar    29
 7 mienfarel ["the humid one"]         20/Abr    30
 8 soimarel ["the misty one"]          20/May    29
 9 rrosnet ["sea wind"]                18/Jun    30
10 nalosnet ["cold wind"]              18/Jul    29
11 skelkel ["the gathered"]            16/Aug    30
12 teubelar ["children's birth"]       15/Sep    29

   danqu"ngep ["short dozen of days"]  14/Oct    11


>     9.  The Quotidian things of life: clothing, houses, farming.

bre`r "clothing, clothes"
paol "loose coat"
sve`g "roof"
folge't "chair"
nailos "window"
fa`nedhor "foyer"
endhilden "to plant"
imma'neor "plantation, field"
sindior "flower garden"
pu`g "cow"
fok "ox"
fogoef "cattle"
ilnavdar "harvest"


>   10.  The parts of the Natural World.

ba"`n "plant, vegetal thing"
thu"`g "animal, beast, nonhuman being"
ren "person" (actually "man"... patriarchal society!)
nain "sky"
dhrith "land, earth"
rros "sea, ocean"
dinias "star"
bais "sun"
is(ais) "moon"
hal "bird"
rrenvel "four-legged animal" (rren-vidh-el "four-foot-ones")
grais "mountain"
qanas "plain"


--Pablo Flores

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