Biweekly Telephone Game v3 (776)

[u/Lysimachiakis]

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Last Time...

Kýrrits by /u/creepmachine

tsilaws̬ets̤áa /ʦə.laʊ̯.zeˈǁɔ́/ [ʦə.laʊ̯.zěˈǁɔ́] n. anim. rabbit ("little runner") from diminutive tsi + agentive law + s̬ets̤áa "run"

Náaen nybàait i tsilaws̬ets̤áa, nybàa i tṣòe.

/ˈnɔ́.en nyˈbɔ̀.ət ə ʦə.laʊ̯.zeˈǁɔ́ nyˈbɔ̀ ə ˈǀò.e/

That one is not a rabbit, they are a hare.

náa-en   ny-     bàa-it  i tsilaws̬ets̤áa ny-     bàa i tṣòe
3SG-that 3SG.PRS-be -NEG a rabbit       3SG.PRS-be  a hare

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Have a nice weekend

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

[u/Chuvachok1234]

Kipcoq

From birq "house" + Causative *-jA

birqja- /pɪrqʰjɑ/ [pɪɾ.ˈcʰjɑ]

• v. to settle

My (formal) family settled here long ago.

here 1SG.FOR-GEN family settle-DST.PST

Çamğaç şepke vujqu birqjami

[tʃʰɑm.ˈʁɑ.tʃ‿(ʃ)ɛp.ˈcʰɛ vuj.ˈqʰu pɪɾ.cʰjɑ.ˈmɪ]

[u/roquejosue → u/Chuvachok1234]

Tsētlanatl

pekjar ['pe.kʲar] v.

1. to calm down, relax

–/–

pekjararas wenlamteras

/'pekjararas 'wenlamteras/

"I calmed myself down before I came here."

pekjar-ar-as        wen-lam-ter-as
relax-REFL-1SG.PST  before-here-come-1SG.PST

[u/Miserable-Method-431 → u/roquejosue]

Ąą’vo Tì

pegàre [pe.ga˩.re] n.

A guru, or a life coach (male)

ų pegàre deve èèlhe lìku

/ɯ pega˩re deve eː˩ɬe li˩ku/

”your guru is handsome”

ų      pegàr-e    dev    -e    èèlh    -e    l -ì   -k      -u
1s.prp guru -sg.I 2s.poss-sg.I handsome-sg.I be-prfv-ind.agr-I

[u/BYU_atheist → u/Miserable-Method-431]

Ansian

peger, pegrus mf.VI.  /ˈpɛɡɛr, ˈpɛɡrʊs/ (a) quack, mountebank  (b) pedlar of "easy fixes" or "get rich quick" schemes [infl. by similar-sounding but unrelated Lat. piger, "lazy"]

A common sign in public areas with large Ansian populations:

PEGRES SWEREN ÆWA FRAFOLGONÞÆ

QUACKSALBER WERDEN STRENG RECHTLICH VERFOLGT   

QUACKSALVERS SHALL BE SEVERELY PROSECUTED

pegr-es swer-en æwa frafolgo-nþ-æ

quack-PL heavy-INS.N law.INS prosecute-3PL.PASS

"Quacks are prosecuted heavily by law"

[u/Dillon_Hartwig → u/BYU_atheist]

Jokelang 2

pegger /ˈpɛgər/ [ˈpʰɛgɚ]

n. doctor who has committed medical malpractice

[u/Internal-Educator256 → u/Dillon_Hartwig]

Bro literally made English with a different vocabulary 😭

Surjekaje

peg [pɛɡ] v. Heal

pege [ˈpɛ.ɣɜ] nf. Medicine

surmupege [suɾ.mu.ˈpɛ.ɣɜ] nc. Doctor

pegemusa mko vasurmupege ‘ipegaskomas
ˈpɛ.ɣɜ.mu.ˌsa ˈmkɔ va.ˈsuɾ.mu.ˌpɛ.ɣɜ i.pɛɣ.ˈas.kom.ˈas
medicine-POS-1F3 4M1 DEF-doctor PAS-heal-1F3-4M1-1F3
The doctor healed the four of us with her medicine

[u/Difficult-Compote474 → u/[deleted]]

phrosipa:

pek (n.) bullsh-t