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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Gareth Wilson</b>
on <!--date-->18:33 9/5/02
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I just read your comments on the elcari language. It sounds fascinating,
how far have you got with it? I've been playing around with your
morphemes and I've guessed that _nebd_ means "miner" and _maku_ means
"theft", although I'm open to correction.
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>Last I checked, the grammatical sketch had grown to about 17 pages.
It's decidedly weird, which was my intention for a non-human language.
There's still some important parts missing, though.
<p>Your words are correct, though I'd adjust the glosses. <b>Ebd</b>
is an excavation of any kind; a mine would be a substyle. And <b>mak</b>
is specifically stealing property; it could also be translated 'invade'.
Stealing moveable objects is <b>q<strike>i</strike>lten</b>.
<p>Here's another nice word for you: <b>gnqêtw</b> 'father'.
The initial g- is a masculine prefix (feminine is ch-); the final -w is
an honorific, and the verb <b>qêt</b> is 'beget'.
<p>If anyone's wondering what Gareth is referring to, by the way, it's
to <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#39">this rant</a>.
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