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<h3>The Fantasy Frequency Wordlist</h3>
<a href="wordlist.txt">Here is a text file</a> containing just the words in the wordlist, in alphabetical order.
<p><a href="freqlist.txt">Here it is again</a> in frequency order (what's in the book).
<h3>More from Zompist.com</h3>
You can meet other conlang enthusiasts— and get help when you're stuck— at <a href="http://www.incatena.org"><strong>the zompist bboard</strong></a>.
<p>If you're getting started with conlanging, check out <a href="../kit.html">the online Language Construction Kit</a> here. If you want more depth, try out my other books:
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<a href="../lckbook.html">The Language Construction Kit</a>
<br><a href="../lck2.html">Advanced Language Construction</a>
<br><a href="../pck.html">The Planet Construction Kit</a>
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There's more of interest on <a href="http://www.zompist.com">zompist.com</a>-- take a look around! If you've got the etymology bug, look at my lists of English words from <a href="../indianwd.html">Amerindian languages</a>, <a href="../indiawords.html">India</a>, <a href="../arabic.html">Arabic</a>, and <a href="../chinawords.html">Chinese</a>.
<p>There's far more on <b>Almea</b> over at <a href="../virtuver.htm">Virtual Verduria</a>. You can get more ideas for etymologies by browsing my lexicons.
<h3>In more depth...</h3>
<A href="http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/kinterms/termsys.html">More on kinship terms</a> from Brian Schwimmer.
<p>Jim Clark's <a href="http://www.chemguide.co.uk/">guide to chemistry</a> is intended for British students, but it's a fantastic in-depth explanation of electron shells, the periodic table, organic chemistry, and plenty of stuff I'm glad I don't have to understand.
<h3>Errata</h3>
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<li>p. 230: The diagram of Latin kinship terms switches <i>avuncular</i> and <i>patruus</i> and their children. Here's the correct diagram:
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<li>p. 352: The formula for potassium carbonate (salt of tartar) should be K<sub>2</sub>CO<sub>3</sub>. It could be obtained by baking potash, which is an unrefined form.
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<h3>Stuff I wish I'd included</h3>
There's a fascinating cluster of meanings deriving from Greek μύσος 'something abominable or repulsive'. This gives Latin <i>miser</i> 'unhappy, wretched'. The emotion evoked by such states was expressed by <i>miseror</i> 'pity, deplore'. English <i>misery</i> and <i>miserable</i> (i.e. 'pitiable') are straightforward. In French the primary meaning is now one type of wretchedness-- poverty. Spanish <i>miserable</i> can also mean 'despicable'; this might have been the semantic bridge to the meaning 'avaricious', which we have as <i>miser(ly)</i>. Finally note <i>misericord</i>, from 'a pitying heart', which has various meanings, including a bracket attached to a folding seat which allows a standing person to lean on it.
<p>Spanish <i>mísero</i> 'wretched, miserly' must not, by the way, be confused with <i>misero</i> 'fond of going to mass'. Which in turn is an interesting nonce specialization of the Romance <i>-er</i> person suffix.
<p>Another Englishism to watch out for: where Latinized adjectives have a neutral 'relating to X' meaning (<i>solar, manual, nasal, feline, ecclesiastical, aqueous</i>), the native adjective has a quirkier idiomatic meaning (<i>sunny</i> 'full of sun', <i>handy</i> 'good with the hands', <i>nosy</i> 'inquisitive', <i>catty</i> 'spiteful', <i>churchy</i> 'fond of church', <i>watery</i> 'with (too) much water').
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