Germian

Germian
Germic
The Germian flag is inspired by the Dutch, German, British and Swedish flags.
Pronunciation	[germiʃ]
Created by	Jeppesper
Date	2022
Setting	Germanic languages
Language family	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic West Germic Germian
Writing system	Latin

Germian (Germic IPA: /germiʃ/) is a conlang created by Jeppesper beginning in 2022, germ stands for it being based of off Germanic languages. It could be thought of as a conditioned language since it is constructed to be regular, simple, recognizable, lack grammatical gender and gender differentiation of nouns/pronouns. The conlang is mainly based on English, German, Dutch and Swedish, but it has to smaller extends also been influenced by Afrikaans, Danish, Norwegian, Yiddish, West-frisian, Luxembourgish and Icelandic.

Qualities

Alignment	Neutral alignment
Type	Analytical
Tonal	No
Genders	None

Nouns decline according to	Case Number Definiteness
Verbs conjugate according to	Tense Aspect
Adjectives decline according to	Comparision

100%	Phonetic alphabet
100%	Consistent noun & adjective declensions
100%	Consistent verb conjugations
0%	Noun/Pronoun gender differentiation
+	Swadesh inclusive
+	GSRD inclusive

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labio-velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n			ŋ
Plosive	p b		t d			k g
Fricative		f v	s z	ʃ				h
Approximant					j		w
Trill			r
Lateral app.			l
Clusters						ks kw

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
High	iː yː				uː
Near-high		ɪ ʏ		ʊ
High-mid	eː				oː
Mid
Low-mid	ɛ				ɔ
Near-low
Low		a			ɑː
Diphthongs	ɛ͡ɪ	a͡ɪ a͡ʊ			ɔ͡ɪ ɔ͡ʊ

Orthography

Alphabet

Letter	Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Sound	/a/	/b/	/ʃ/	/d/	/ɛ/	/f/	/g/	/h/	/ɪ/	/j/	/k/	/l/	/m/	/n/	/ɔ/	/p/	/kw/	/r/	/s/	/t/	/ʊ/	/v/	/w/	/ks/	/ʏ/	/z/
Name	/a/	/beː/	/ʃeː/	/deː/	/ɛ/	/ɛf/	/geː/	/hoː/	/ɪ/	/jɛɪ/	/kɛɪ/	/ɛl/	/ɛm/	/ɛn/	/ɔ/	/peː/	/kwuː/	/ɛr/	/ɛs/	/teː/	/ʊ/	/vɛɪ/	/wʏn/	/ɛks/	/ʏ/	/zɛt/

Digraphs & Diphthongs

Digraphs & Diphthongs	Aa aa	Ee ee	Ii ii	Oo oo	Uu uu	Yy yy	Ng ng	Ai ai	Ei ei	Oi oi	Au au	Ou ou
Sound	/ɑː/	/eː/	/iː/	/oː/	/uː/	/yː/	/ŋ/	/a͡ɪ/	/ɛ͡ɪ/	/ɔ͡ɪ/	/a͡ʊ/	/ɔ͡ʊ/
Name	lang a	lang e	lang i	lang o	lang u	lang y	/ɛŋ/	/a͡ɪ/	/ɛ͡ɪ/	/ɔ͡ɪ/	/a͡ʊ/	/ɔ͡ʊ/

Translitteration of foreign letters & sounds

Foreign letters	Ðð	Þþ	Åå	Ææ Ää	Öö Øø	Üü	ẞß
Foreign sounds	/ð/	/θ/	/o/	/æ/	/œ/ /ø/	/ɵ/ /ʉ/	/s/
Germian translitteration	dh	th	ao	ae	oe	ue	ss

Phonotactics

• Note: These phonotactics may vary for loan words and words with foreign letter/sound translitterations.

1. There are no silent letters.

2. There is no phonemic reduced vowel sound like English's /ə/.

3. Multiple consonants, vowels and diphthong combinations interact as follows:

Double consonants (that aren't part of a digraph) are pronounced with a syllable break:

Example: bb = /b.b/

Vowels following each other that are not part of a vowel digraph/diphthong pair are not pronounced with a syllable break inbetween them:

Example: ia = /ɪa/

Example: iea = /ɪɛa/

Example: aioe = /a͡ɪ.ɔɛ/

The first 2 vowels that are viable as a vowel digraph/diphthong pair are the ones that will be pronounced as such:

Example: aii = /a͡ɪ.ɪ/

Example: eei = /eː.ɪ/

Not like: aii = /a.iː/

Not like: eei = /ɛ.ɛ͡ɪ/

Vowel digraph/diphthong pairs and single vowels that directly preceeds/follows a vowel digraph/diphthong pair are pronounced with a syllable break inbetween them:

Example: aaeiou = /ɑː.ɛ͡ɪ.ɔ͡ʊ/

Example: eaa = /ɛ.ɑː/

Example: aio = /a͡ɪ.ɔ/

Example: aaa = /ɑː.a/

Grammar

Syntax

SVO (subject–verb–object)

Descriptive examples:

Example: Jaik¹ hav² ain³ kat⁴. ⇄ I¹ have² a³ cat⁴.

Example: Jaik¹ siien⁴ nite³ et⁵. ⇄ I¹ do² not³ see⁴ it⁵.

Example: Ain¹ roud² rous³. ⇄ A¹ red² rose³.

^{Example: Vat1 wilte4 duu3 dun5 6? ⇄ What1 do2 you3 want4 to5 do6?}

^{Example: Vii1 brauke2 gouen3 in4 de5 morgen6. ⇄ We1 usually2 walk3 in4 the5 morning6.}

^{Example: Siien4 du2 et5 nite3? ⇄ Do1 you (s.)2 not3 see4 it5?}

Vocabulary

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Noun declenations

Case articles and number

Example	Singular	Plural
Nominative-Definite	de kat	de kates
Nominative-Indefinite	ain kat	(vleere) kates
Genitive-Definite	de katese	de kateses
Genitive-Indefinite	ain katese	(vleere) kateses

Vocabulary

^{ain ⇄ a, an (singular indefinite article)}

^{de ⇄ the (definite article)}

^{kat ⇄ cat}

^{vleere ⇄ several (plural indefinite "article")}

Noun suffixes

-er ⇄ (making-subject e.g. English's employer)

-iie ⇄ (making-object e.g. English's employee)

-ing ⇄ (state/condition e.g. English's childhood)

Verb conjugations

Infinitive/Imperative: sainen ⇄ to be	Simple	Progressive	Perfect	Imperfect
Present	sain ⇄ am/is/are	saine ⇄ being	hasain ⇄ have/has been
Past	saind ⇄ was/were	sainde ⇄ was/were being	hadsain ⇄ had been
Future	vil sain ⇄ will be	vil saine ⇄ will become	vil hasain ⇄ will have been
Conditional			skalde hasain ⇄ would have been	skalde sain ⇄ would be

Infinitive/Imperative: dunen ⇄ to do	Simple	Progressive	Perfect	Imperfect
Present	dun ⇄ do	dune ⇄ doing	hadun ⇄ have/has done
Past	dund ⇄ did	dunde ⇄ was/were doing	haddun ⇄ had done
Future	vil dun ⇄ will do	vil dune ⇄ will be doing	vil hadun ⇄ will have done
Conditional			skalde hadun ⇄ would have done	skalde dun ⇄ would do

Infinitive/Imperative: haven ⇄ to have	Simple	Progressive	Perfect	Imperfect
Present	hav ⇄ have	have ⇄ having	hahav ⇄ have/has had
Past	havd ⇄ had	havde ⇄ was/were having	hadhav ⇄ had had
Future	vil hav ⇄ will have	vil have ⇄ will be having	vil hahav ⇄ will have had
Conditional			skalde hahav ⇄ would have had	skalde hav ⇄ would have

Modal auxiliary verbs

berhauce ⇄ need

brauke ⇄ brukar, usually do

burt ⇄ ought

durfo ⇄ may, to be permitted to, to be allowed to, dürf, få

kan ⇄ can, to be able

kaunde ⇄ could

moug ⇄ might

must ⇄ must

skal ⇄ shall

skalde ⇄ would

taure ⇄ dare

vil ⇄ will, going to

wilte ⇄ want

Verb suffixes

-en ⇄ (making-verb)

Example	(Making-verb)	Progressive	Example phrase	Example phrase
vit ⇄ white	viten ⇄ whiten	vite ⇄ whitening	viten de tands ⇄ whiten the teeth	de vite faun de tands ⇄ the whitening of the teeth

rii- ⇄ (repeat)

un- ⇄ (deprive)

ike-- ⇄ (negate)

Example	(repeat)	(deprive)	(negate)
vit ⇄ white	riiviten ⇄ rewhiten	unviten ⇄ unwhiten	ike-vit ⇄ non-white

Adjective comparison

-er ⇄ (comparative)

-est ⇄ (superlative)

Example	Positive/Negative	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	groos	grooser	groosest

Example: Et sain groos. ⇄ It is big.

Example: Et sain grooser dan dat. ⇄ It is larger than that.

Example: Et sain (de) groosest. ⇄ It is the largest.

Example: Et sain klain. ⇄ It is small.

Example: Et sain klainer dan dat. ⇄ It is smaller than that.

Example: Et sain (de) klainest. ⇄ It is the smallest.

Example: Et sain fiiler dan dat. ⇄ It is more than that.

Example: Et sain klimer dan dat. ⇄ It is less than that.

Example: Jaik wilte meer. ⇄ I want (even) more.

Example: Jaik wilte haven vleere. ⇄ I want to have several ones.

Vocabulary

^{dan ⇄ than}

^{dat ⇄ that}

^{de ⇄ the}

^{et ⇄ it}

^{fiil ⇄ many, much, a lot}

^{groos ⇄ big}

^{hav ⇄ have}

^{jaik ⇄ I}

^{klain ⇄ small}

^{klim ⇄ little meer ⇄ even more, additional}

^{sain ⇄ am/is/are}

^{vleere ⇄ several}

^{wilte ⇄ want}

Adjective suffix

-ic ⇄ (making-adjective)/(having qualities of)

Example	gold ⇄ gold	hund ⇄ dog
-ic	goldic	hundic

Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns	Nominative	Possesive	Reflexive
1st person	jaik ⇄ I vii ⇄ we	jaikse ⇄ my/mine viise ⇄ our/ours	jaikself ⇄ myself viiselfs ⇄ ourselves
2nd person	duu ⇄ you (s.) juu ⇄ you (pl.)	duuse ⇄ your/yours (s.) juuse ⇄ you/yours (pl.)	duuself ⇄ yourself (s.) juuselfs ⇄ yourselves (pl.)
3rd person	xiin ⇄ they/this one (s. proximate./former. standard) diin ⇄ they/that one (s. obviative./post-former.) et ⇄ it dei ⇄ they (pl.)	xiinse ⇄ theirs (s.) diinse ⇄ theirs (s.) etse ⇄ its deise ⇄ theirs (pl.)	xiinself ⇄ themself (s.) diinself ⇄ themself (s.) etself ⇄ itself deiselfs ⇄ themselves (pl.)
4th person	eim ⇄ one	eimse ⇄ one's	eimself ⇄ oneself

Numerals

1. Ordinal numbers are marked by adding the suffix "-ce" to a number.

2. Spaces are used to group digits in numerals e.g. 20 000.

3. Fractions are marked by adding the suffix "-deil" (deil ⇄ part, piece) to a number (exeption for "helft ⇄ half").

Capitalization

Capital letters are used for the first word of a sentence and for proper nouns.

The proper nouns in Germian are exclusively: personal names, place names, marketed titles and organization names.

Punctuation

Apostrophe

The apostrophe ( ’, ' ), is used to mark letters omitted in contractions.

Brackets

Brackets ( [...], (...), {...}, ⟨...⟩ ), are used for parenthesis, explanation or comment.

Question marks, exclamation points, semicolons, colons, periods and commas are placed inside the brackets when they apply only to the explanation or comment; if they syntactically apply to the sentence containing the material, they are placed outside the marks.

Colon

The colon ( : ) is used to start an enumeration and it is used between two clauses when the second clause otherwise clarifies the first.

Comma

The comma ( , ) is used to disambiguate the meaning of sentences, by providing boundaries between clauses and phrases.

The comma is also used as the decimal separator.

Dash and hyphen

The dash ( –, — ) is used:

1. as a replacement for a comma, when the subsequent clause significantly shifts the primary focus of the preceding text.

2. to indicate spans or differentiation, where it may replace "and", "to", or "through" e.g. numbers "1—10", and cross countries "US—Canada".

3. to mark someone speaking.

4. to mark the one who said something.

The hyphen/hyphen-minus ( ‐ ) is used:

1. as a line continuation when a word is broken across two lines.

2. to apply a prefix to a word for which there is no canonical compound word;

Ellipsis

An ellipsis ( ..., …, . . .) is used to mark omitted text or when a sentence trails off.

Exclamation mark

The exclamation mark ( ! ) is used to mark an exclamation.

Period/full stop/full point

The character known as the period/full stop/full point ( . ) serves multiple purposes. It is used to mark the end of a sentence, to indicate abbreviation, including of names as initials, as well as a separation marker when listing things with numbers e.g. "1. 2. 3.".

Question marks

The question mark ( ? ) is used to mark the end of a sentence which is a question.

Quotation marks

Quotation marks ( ‘...’, “...”, '...', "..." ) are used in pairs to set off quotation, with two levels for distinguishing nested quotations: single and double. Germian texts favours double quotation marks for the primary quotation.

Question marks, exclamation points, semicolons, colons, periods and commas are placed inside the quotation marks when they apply only to the quoted material; if they syntactically apply to the sentence containing or introducing the material, they are placed outside the marks.

Semicolon

The semicolon ( ; ) is used to separate two independent but related clauses. The semicolon is also used to separate list items when the list items contain commas.

Slash

The slash ( / ) is often used to indicate alternatives or two equivalent meanings or spellings. The slash can also be used in certain set phrases.

Word creation

A word in germian is created by looking at the equivalent words for it in English, German, Dutch and Swedish to then find the most prominant phonological features within these equivalent words. Then these features are used to create a word in accordance to germian phonology and orthography. Sometimes it is clear that these languages' equivalent words are very much the same and can be translated very phonologically; with cat /kæt/ in English, Katze /katzɛ / in German, kat /kat/ in Dutch and katt /kat/ in Swedish, it becomes kat /kat/ in Germian.

Sometimes many words like hi

sometimes bigger differences, merge words, use creative liberty piiron

create multiple words

sometimes use other germanic languages to even it out

Compound words

When creating a Germian compound word one ought to look at each of the 4 Germanic languages' equivalent words to decide how it will be formed. There are 3 types of compound words in Germian:

Closed compound words

Example: apel + juus = apeljuus ⇄ applejuice

Example: hamburger + brout = hamburgerbrout ⇄ hamburger bun, hamburger bread

Open compound words

Many open compound words function as nouns and are formed by combining a noun with another noun or with an adjective.

Example: video speil ⇄ video game

Example: ful moon ⇄ full moon

Hyphenated compound words

Hyphens are often used when a compound modifies a noun or verb.

Example: CD + - + caifa = CD-caifa ⇄ CD-disc

Example: maind + - + blasperen = maind-blasperen ⇄ mind-blowing

Loan words

Words from any other language that is getting a Germian equivalent will have to adapt the word to Germian phonology and orthography:

Example: déjà vu ⇄ deica vue

Words in the 4 Germanic languages that are loan words will be treated as any other word:

Example: sushi ⇄ suci

Example: motto ⇄ moto

Example: niche ⇄ niic

Sometimes Germian will loan words directly from one of the 4 Germanic languages.

Example: Wi-Fi ⇄ Wi-Fi

Example: internet ⇄ internet

Countries & languages

The word creation for country/region and language names should be done through adapting the most standard and prominent endonymic name phonologically for the country/region or language to Germian phonology and orthography e.g. Sverige /svɛrjɛ/ (Sweden) ⇄ Sverje. For languages the suffix "-ic" is added e.g. svenska /svɛnska/ (Swedish) ⇄ svenskaic

Words that are added to indicate specifics like "North" America, "South" America, "West" Frisian and names alike are to be translated to Germian and then added to the country/region or language name accordingly and as a closed compound word e.g. Nordamerika, Saudamerika, Vestfriskic.

Abbreviations

Acronyms (initials for a phrase) and abbreviations are used in written Germian. They can be written in all caps, lowercase, title form and with periods.

Dictionary

Phrases

Jaik heiten... ⇄ My name is...	jaik ⇄ I	heiten ⇄ to be named, heiße, heet, heter
Vat sain duuse name? ⇄ What is your name?	name ⇄ name	Spraten duu... ⇄ Do you speak...
Jaik spraten nite... ⇄ I don't speak...	Jaik verctond nite. ⇄ I don't understand.	Veir sain de toilet? ⇄ Where is the toilet?
Vur sain duu?/Vur sain et? ⇄ How are you?/How is it?, How is it going?	Sain duu okee/ok? ⇄ Are you okay?	Sain et okee/ok? ⇄ Is it going okay?
okee/ok ⇄ okay/ok	jaa ⇄ yes	nei ⇄ no
njei ⇄ (yes/no)/well	jee ⇄ yeah	naa ⇄ nah
maince ⇄ maybe	natuurlic ⇄ of course	kain problem ⇄ no problem
antswer ⇄ answer	genau, exakt, presiic, korekt, ret ⇄ exactly, precisely, correct, right	inkorekt, falc ⇄ incorrect, false/wrong
tangke ⇄ thanks	tangke duu/juu (s./pl.) ⇄ thank you	fiil tangke ⇄ thank you very much
stop! ⇄ stop!	help ⇄ help	akta! ⇄ look out!
sori ⇄ sorry	sploristop ⇄ sorry, but please lets stop/end this	pardon ⇄ excuse me
spliifst ⇄ please	ckol ⇄ cheers	grelsing ⇄ greeting
haloo ⇄ hello	hae ⇄ hi	hei ⇄ hey
dae ⇄ good day/bye/dag	guutein ⇄ have a good one/goodbye	cau ⇄ bye
adjoo ⇄ adieu	ferwel ⇄ farewell	sees vii ⇄ see you/see you later
wilkom ⇄ welcome/you're welcome	moost wilkom ⇄ most welcome/you are most welcome	guut morgen ⇄ good morning
guut daag ⇄ good day	guut naftermiddaag ⇄ good afternoon	guut aufend ⇄ good evening
guut nact ⇄ good night	jaik eliibe duu ⇄ I love you	Vur fiil sain dit? ⇄ How much is this?

Swadesh+

1. I ⇄ jaik
2. we ⇄ vii
3. you (singular) ⇄ duu
4. you (plural) ⇄ juu
5. they (singular proximate) ⇄ xiin
6. they (singular obviative) ⇄ diin
7. they (plural) ⇄ dei
8. this ⇄ dit
9. that ⇄ dat
10. here ⇄ heir
11. there ⇄ daar
12. who ⇄ viim
13. whose ⇄ viis
14. what ⇄ vat
15. why ⇄ vatfuur
16. which ⇄ velke
17. where ⇄ veir
18. when ⇄ van
19. how ⇄ vur
20. what kind of, what something's like ⇄ vurvat
21. not ⇄ nite
22. all ⇄ al
23. none, no, not any ⇄ kain
24. many ⇄ fiil
25. few ⇄ veenig
26. some ⇄ somige
27. other ⇄ aader
28. one ⇄ ein
29. two ⇄ tvei
30. three ⇄ drii
31. four ⇄ fiir
32. five ⇄ faif
33. big ⇄ groos
34. small ⇄ klain
35. long ⇄ lang
36. short ⇄ kort
37. wide ⇄ breid
38. narrow ⇄ smaal
39. thick ⇄ dik
40. thin ⇄ dun
41. heavy ⇄ cveer
42. light ⇄ leict
43. female ⇄ femlin
44. male ⇄ manske
45. androgyne ⇄ wenle
46. gender-neutral ⇄ nukjon (nutrei-kjon)
47. genderless ⇄ zukjon (zunte-kjon)
48. cultural gender ⇄ qukjon (qultural-kjon)
49. inter(-sex/-gender) ⇄ jinen(-sec/-kjon)
50. endo(-sex/cisgender) ⇄ ine(-sec/-kjon)
51. trans(-sexual/-gender) ⇄ tverc(-sec/-kjon)
52. diverse/variating/queer ⇄ veirai
53. human ⇄ huumas
54. child, youngling ⇄ kind
55. child, progeny ⇄ cinder
56. spouse, martial partner ⇄ jaing (extension of "jaik")
57. parent ⇄ elter
58. animal ⇄ diir
59. fish ⇄ fic
60. bird ⇄ fogel
61. dog ⇄ hund
62. louse ⇄ laus
63. snake ⇄ clang
64. worm ⇄ wurm
65. nature ⇄ natuur
66. tree ⇄ trai
67. forest ⇄ skoog
68. stick ⇄ stape
69. fruit ⇄ fruut
70. seed ⇄ saed
71. leaf ⇄ lauv
72. root ⇄ wrootcel
73. bark (of a tree) ⇄ bark
74. flower ⇄ blom
75. grass ⇄ grais
76. rope ⇄ roup
77. body ⇄ bodi
78. organ ⇄ organ
79. skin ⇄ skind
80. leather ⇄ leder
81. scale ⇄ sqeil
82. meat ⇄ flec
83. blood ⇄ blut
84. bone ⇄ boun
85. fat (noun) ⇄ feit
86. grease ⇄ greis
87. mucle ⇄ muskel
88. guts ⇄ darm
89. heart ⇄ hart
90. brain ⇄ breihin
91. liver ⇄ leever
92. egg ⇄ eig
93. horn ⇄ horn
94. stinger ⇄ stakel
95. antenna ⇄ anten
96. tail ⇄ stvan
97. feather ⇄ veder
98. hair ⇄ har
99. fur ⇄ fel
100. head ⇄ hovd
101. face ⇄ sicte
102. ear ⇄ oor
103. eye ⇄ ooge
104. nose ⇄ noose
105. snout ⇄ snuut
106. mouth ⇄ mund
107. beard ⇄ bard
108. mustasch ⇄ mustac
109. lip ⇄ lip
110. tooth ⇄ tand
111. tongue ⇄ tunge
112. foot ⇄ fut
113. leg ⇄ leg
114. knee ⇄ knii
115. hand ⇄ hand
116. finger ⇄ finger
117. nail (body part) ⇄ nagel
118. claw ⇄ klau
119. wing ⇄ ving
120. belly ⇄ belai
121. stomach ⇄ maage
122. neck ⇄ hals
123. nape ⇄ nek
124. throat ⇄ keel
125. back ⇄ rug
126. breast, boob ⇄ brost
127. chest ⇄ cest
128. ass, butt ⇄ bump
129. anus ⇄ anus
130. urethra ⇄ uretra
131. vagina ⇄ vagin
132. vagina (juvenile) ⇄ vip
133. clitoris ⇄ klitoris
134. womb ⇄ wuum
135. ovary ⇄ oovery
136. ovum ⇄ oovum
137. penis ⇄ peenis
138. penis (juvenile) ⇄ pik
139. scrotum, ballsack ⇄ skrung
140. male genitals ⇄ prung
141. glans ⇄ gleiskel
142. testicle ⇄ testikel
143. sperm ⇄ sperm
144. to drink ⇄ dringken
145. to eat ⇄ spiitsen
146. to nibble ⇄ knibelen
147. to bite ⇄ baiten
148. to suck ⇄ saugen
149. to spit ⇄ speiten
150. to vomit ⇄ sparfen
151. to blow ⇄ blousen
152. to breathe ⇄ andemen
153. to laugh ⇄ lahen
154. to see ⇄ siien
155. to hear ⇄ hooren
156. to know ⇄ visten
157. to think ⇄ tengken
158. to smell ⇄ raukten
159. to taste ⇄ spruufen
160. to feel (emotionally) ⇄ kenden
161. to feel (physicaly) ⇄ fuulen
162. to touch ⇄ rooren
163. to sense ⇄ sensen
164. to fear ⇄ frangsten
165. to sleep ⇄ slaapen
166. to live ⇄ leven
167. to die ⇄ cdurden
168. to kill ⇄ douden
169. to fight (combat) ⇄ straiden
170. to fight (struggle) ⇄ kempen
171. to hunt ⇄ jakten
172. to hit ⇄ slaagen
173. to cut ⇄ cneiden
174. to chop ⇄ haken
175. to stab ⇄ staben
176. to share ⇄ deelen
177. to split ⇄ spliten
178. to scratch ⇄ skrapsen
179. to dig ⇄ graven
180. to swim ⇄ swimen
181. to fly ⇄ fliigen
182. to walk, to go ⇄ gouen
183. to come ⇄ komen
184. to lie (lay) ⇄ leegen
185. to sit ⇄ siten
186. to stand ⇄ standen
187. to turn (intransitive) ⇄ dreiden
188. to rise ⇄ staigen
189. to fall ⇄ falen
190. to give ⇄ geeven
191. to take ⇄ neimen
192. to hold ⇄ halden
193. to squeeze ⇄ sqeesen
194. to rub ⇄ ruben
195. to wash ⇄ vasen
196. to wipe ⇄ drooken
197. to pull ⇄ pulen
198. to push ⇄ druken
199. to throw ⇄ troiven
200. to catch ⇄ fangen
201. to tie ⇄ binden
202. to sew ⇄ snaien
203. to count ⇄ reekenen
204. to say ⇄ saagen
205. to sing ⇄ singen
206. to play ⇄ spleien
207. to float ⇄ flouten
208. to sink ⇄ zingken
209. to flow ⇄ floisen
210. to swell ⇄ svelen
211. to freeze ⇄ friisen
212. to burn ⇄ brenen
213. fire ⇄ fiier
214. sun ⇄ son
215. star ⇄ ster
216. earth ⇄ erd
217. moon ⇄ mon
218. salt ⇄ salt
219. stone ⇄ steen
220. dust ⇄ stov
221. gravel ⇄ graus
222. boulder ⇄ boulder
223. ash ⇄ ask
224. mountain ⇄ berg
225. hill ⇄ houvel
226. sand ⇄ sand
227. road ⇄ veeg
228. water ⇄ vaater
229. drop ⇄ drop
230. rain ⇄ regen
231. river ⇄ flusd
232. lake ⇄ see
233. sea ⇄ haav
234. waterstream ⇄ vaaterstroum
235. waterfall ⇄ vaaterfal
236. snow ⇄ snee
237. ice ⇄ ais
238. fog ⇄ neevel
239. mist ⇄ mist
240. tsunami ⇄ tsunaami
241. air ⇄ luft
242. cloud ⇄ woln
243. sky ⇄ himel
244. wind ⇄ wind
245. smoke ⇄ rook
246. disaster ⇄ katastrof
247. color ⇄ kolur
248. paint ⇄ farb
249. red ⇄ roud
250. orange ⇄ oranc
251. yellow ⇄ gelu
252. lime ⇄ laim
253. green ⇄ grun
254. turquoise ⇄ turkois
255. cyan ⇄ cyan
256. azure ⇄ azor
257. blue ⇄ blo
258. purple ⇄ prila
259. magenta ⇄ magent
260. cerise ⇄ ceri
261. white ⇄ vit
262. gray ⇄ gro
263. black ⇄ svart
264. brown (dark orange colors) ⇄ brun
265. pink (pale red, magenta, cerise) ⇄ rooz
266. beige ⇄ beic
267. light ⇄ lict
268. hazy ⇄ hazi
269. dark ⇄ dunkel
270. night ⇄ nact
271. day ⇄ daag
272. year ⇄ jaur
273. warm ⇄ varm
274. cold ⇄ kald
275. full ⇄ fol
276. empty ⇄ lemtom
277. new ⇄ nue
278. old ⇄ old
279. good ⇄ guut
280. bad ⇄ slect
281. ripe, mature ⇄ raif
282. rotten ⇄ rotnen
283. clean ⇄ crein
284. dirty ⇄ smotsic
285. straight ⇄ strak
286. bent ⇄ bougd
287. round ⇄ rund
288. sharp (as a knife) ⇄ cerp
289. dull (as a knife) ⇄ dulp
290. smooth ⇄ glat
291. ragged ⇄ rugd
292. wet ⇄ vnot
293. dry ⇄ drog
294. near ⇄ neer
295. far ⇄ faar
296. right ⇄ rect
297. left ⇄ lingks
298. center ⇄ centraal
299. north ⇄ nord
300. south ⇄ saud
301. east ⇄ oust
302. west ⇄ vest
303. at ⇄ aton
304. in ⇄ in
305. with ⇄ mit
306. and ⇄ end
307. if ⇄ ifals
308. because ⇄ soodat
309. name ⇄ name
310. correct, right ⇄ korekt, ret
311. incorrect, false/wrong ⇄ inkorekt, falc

Wordlists

• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Conjunctions and subjunctions
• Interjections
• Nouns
• Numerals
• Prepositions
• Pronouns
• Verbs

Culture

Personal names

Constructed Germian personal names (all unisex)

• Aalix
• Aariwen
• Aavain
• Aic
• Ailauv
• Aimirn
• Aleet
• Almne
• Amelic
• Aucei
• Aulim
• Auvii
• Beiwa
• Bjeil
• Bleikin
• Caarun
• Cavein
• Ceviim
• Daneil
• Deviv
• Dioja
• Ecin
• Eedavy
• Eeniir
• Eevis
• Eica
• Eilex
• Eitia
• Emicia
• Evlet
• Feeli
• Feinin
• Fyni
• Geviil
• Gicel
• Gliiou
• Hainid
• Hiide
• Hisnim
• Iiden
• Iikiv
• Iinik
• Ikim
• Irsya
• Iz
• Jeimly
• Jesin
• Joisen
• Keltyz
• Klei
• Kyvi
• Laarem
• Lexiin
• Loneel
• Marjom
• Moorin
• Muue
• Naaga
• Naviqa
• Ngiika
• Ngoli
• Ngoova
• Nixei
• Oiliqa
• Oimeri
• Oisine
• Olasa
• Onova
• Oqin
• Oulai
• Ouvinel
• Ouzael
• Peit
• Peloune
• Prais
• Qaaliv
• Qarel
• Qeen
• Riica
• Rily
• Roubi
• Seinel
• Seiwin
• Solven
• Taimin
• Tei
• Tilder
• Ujein
• Usuja
• Uucea
• Uulin
• Uumilan
• Uzeira
• Vei
• Venyl
• Vylyn
• Wesmii
• Winele
• Wyn
• Xalin
• Ximas
• Xouwi
• Ycena
• Ylois
• Yned
• Yylika
• Yynies
• Yyvei
• Zaunel
• Zeemne
• Ziiane

 

Texts

THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE

DE HAAR END DE TORTUS — Aisopos

The Hare was once boasting of his speed before the other animals. “I have never yet been beaten,” said he, “when I put forth my full speed. I challenge any one here to race with me.”

The Tortoise said quietly, “I accept your challenge.”

“That is a good joke,” said the Hare; “I could dance round you all the way.”

“Keep your boasting till you’ve beaten,” answered the Tortoise. “Shall we race?”

So a course was fixed and a start was made. The Hare darted almost out of sight at once, but soon stopped and, to show his contempt for the Tortoise, lay down to have a nap. The Tortoise plodded on and plodded on, and when the Hare awoke from his nap, he saw the Tortoise just near the winning-post and could not run up in time to save the race. Then said the Tortoise:

“Plodding wins the race.”

Fragments 31

Fragments 31 — Sapfo

That man seems to me to be equal to the gods who is sitting opposite you and hears you nearby speaking sweetly

and laughing delightfully, which indeed makes my heart flutter in my breast; for when I look at you even for a short time, it is no longer possible for me to speak

but it is as if my tongue is broken and immediately a subtle fire has run over my skin, I cannot see anything with my eyes, and my ears are buzzing

a cold sweat comes over me, trembling seizes me all over, I am paler than grass, and I seem nearly to have died.

but everything must be dared/endured, since (?even a poor man) ...