Off the top of my head:

damabroh--horse
ykwa--chicken
kwermit--mouse
kokly--monkey
rakkydna--spider
yno--dove
nykanel--gull
kohsa--dog
yba--sheep
moltro--duck
feco--badger
vyo--cat
fulpa--cow
jyjak--hawk
marto--fox

that was fun.

Diana

Sally Caves wrote:

> Well, it would just be too tedious to reproduce the color test, so I'm
> going to do a new one with animals.  Because Teonaht has some residual (or
> borrowed?) Indo-European features, this might be easy for some of you, so
> I've chosen some animals that don't have IE roots to mix in with the few
> that do.  Those who've been reading my Teach Yourself First Lesson will
> know at least one of these, but no fair going back to that.  All of them
> "sound" like the animal to my mind, now because of custom, and then when I
> invented them.  A couple were taken from the Human Engineering Laboratory
> Language test, administered to me back in the seventies, and I simply
> adopted their nonsense words for Teonaht.  Hee hee!  Afterwords, I'll give
> you the gendered names of these animals, if you want, and you can tell me
> what sounds they make in your language.
>
> Sixteen animals.  It looks as though the rule for animal nouns is "a" or
> "o" endings...
>
>         damabroh        /'dam@broX/     DAH-mah-bro(c)h
>         ykwa            /'ikw@/         EE-kwuh
>         kwermit         /'kwErmIt/      KWEHR-mit
>         tohda           /'toD@/         TOE-thuh
>         kokly           /'kukli/        KOO-klee
>         rakkydna        /ra'kidn@/      rah-KEED-nuh
>         yno             /'inu/          EE-noo
>         nykanel         /'nik@nEl/      NEE-kuh-nel
>         kohsa           /'koS@/         KOH=shuh
>         yba             /'ib@/          EE-buh
>         moltro          /'moltro/       MOLE-troh
>         feco            /'feko/         FAY-koh
>         vyo             /'vio/          VEE-oh
>         fulpa           /'f^/p@/        FUHL-puh
>         jyjak           /'ZyZak/        ZHEE-zhak
>         marto           /'marto/        MAR-toh
>
> The sixteen answers, mixed up, are here:
>
>         dog, cat, horse, cow/bull, lamb, sheep, fox, badger,
>         duck, hawk, gull, dove, chicken, monkey, spider, mouse.
>
> This should be an easy process of elimination.
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> Li fetil'aiba, dam hoja-le uen.
> volwin ly, vul inua aiba bronib.
>
> This leaf, the wind takes her.
> She's old, and born this year.
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++