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Throughout the 20th century and particularly since the Emancipation - the ethnic riots of 1969-1971 which terminated the ''de facto'' hegemony of Pontic Ligurians over the country and led to the appointment of the first ethnically Elodian head of state in recorded history - newly coined Elodian words and particularly calques have been the predominant form of enriching the language's lexicon: over 90% of new entries in Elodian dictionaries since 1980 have been calques, either partial or complete. Some calques are new coinings (cf. ''xazi rasmok'' "comic", calque of Fr. ''bande dessinée'', or ''suhitmā'' "committee, council", a calque of Greek ''συνέδριον''), while some are meaning extensions of preexisting words (sometimes loans), e.g. ''moydān'' "square > forum" ''robbān'' "(ship) captain > Internet browser". There are also a few phonosemantic matches such as ''bǝndǝ̄dā'' "band-aid", the first part of which is from English ''band-'' while the matching part corresponds to the ending of ''zemǝ̄dā'' "bandage".
Throughout the 20th century and particularly since the Emancipation - the ethnic riots of 1969-1971 which terminated the ''de facto'' hegemony of Pontic Ligurians over the country and led to the appointment of the first ethnically Elodian head of state in recorded history - newly coined Elodian words and particularly calques have been the predominant form of enriching the language's lexicon: over 90% of new entries in Elodian dictionaries since 1980 have been calques, either partial or complete. Some calques are new coinings (cf. ''xazi rasmok'' "comic", calque of Fr. ''bande dessinée'', or ''suhitmā'' "committee, council", a calque of Greek ''συνέδριον''), while some are meaning extensions of preexisting words (sometimes loans), e.g. ''moydān'' "square > forum" ''robbān'' "(ship) captain > Internet browser". There are also a few phonosemantic matches such as ''bǝndǝ̄dā'' "band-aid", the first part of which is from English ''band-'' while the matching part corresponds to the ending of ''zemǝ̄dā'' "bandage".
===Colors===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Colour !! Noun !! IPA !! Prototypical example
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| Black || ''xǝršon'' || {{IPA|[xɛr’ʃɔn]}} || style="background:#000000" |
|-
| Blue || ''sōm'', ''kownī'' || {{IPA|[so:m]}}, {{IPA|[kɔw'ni:]}} || style="background:#005EFF" |
|-
| Light blue || ''fīrūzi'' || {{IPA|[fi:'ru:zi]}} || style="background:#80FFFF" |
|-
| Brown || ''donew'' || {{IPA|[dɔ'new]}} || style="background:#874B0F" |
|-
| Gray || ''hafrā'' || {{IPA|[haf'ra:]}} || style="background:#AAAAAA" |
|-
| Green || ''jelf'' || {{IPA|[dʒelf]}} || style="background:#3FF91A" |
|-
| Yellow || ''bītǝr'' || {{IPA|['bi:tɛr]}} || style="background:#FFFF00" |
|-
| Orange || ''donul'' || {{IPA|['dɔnul]}} || style="background:#FF7000" |
|-
| Pink || ''bulbī'' || {{IPA|[buɮ'bi:]}} || style="background:#F9C6F9" |
|-
| Red || ''cǝtil'' || {{IPA|[tʃɛ’til]}} || style="background:#ED0000" |
|-
| Violet || ''orğoban'' || {{IPA|[ɔr’ɣɔban]}} || style="background:#9966FF" |
|-
| White || ''swīl'' || {{IPA|[swi:l]}} || style="background:#FFFFFF" |
|}


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