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Monday, August 16, 2010

Occasional Word in Merechi: làri

Hello! I'm jumping on the bandwagon of word-a-day conlangy goodness, sortof, with my new Occasional Word in Merechi series. Herewith the first entry:



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làri [LA-RI ] ['la4i] adj. arid, dessicated; without moisture inside, dried out; used as an exaggeration for "thirsty".

I picked this word to start with because we've been experiencing a bit of a drought and very high temperatures on the East coast. The merechi have separate words for dry (on the surface) and dried-out (through and through). A lack of humidity in the air is làri, dried-out.


Examples:


[ÈNETI- V [ZHA LA-RI SO PN]

enëtív jalàrisöp'n: Conditions are recently arid.


[SHI RE- ATA ] [LA-RI ] [KI MA- TA VN]

shiréata làri ki'màtav'n: The dessicated plant will die.

1 comment:

  1. As Victor Laszlow said to Rick, welcome to the fight! ~:D

    I invite you to vacation in sunny Southern California. Temperatures are very mild, and we've got beaches like you wouldn't believe. Yes sir, we held an election, and voted bad days out of the state. Now we got nothing but the good stuff!

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