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== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
Lethe-Xua continent for Imathyda <span style="background:#006400">[[User:Ceige|<span style="color:#FFFFFF">'''CEIGE'''</span>]][[User talk:Ceige|<span style="color:#FFFFFF">⟨TAWK⟩</span>]]</span> | Lethe-Xua continent for Imathyda. | ||
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== Linguistic inspiration == | |||
=== Lethean and Scadeo-Wai names === | |||
* Cluthea, Cluve, Qa-lǝgh-zé (Qalǝghžé) - from Tagalog ilog < PAN *qalug, "river" | |||
:* -zé is often used for placenames in Scadean speech | |||
* Brattea, Bride, Bǝ-ghad-zé (B̵ǝghaddé) - from Malay bukit < PAN *bukit~bukid | |||
:* bǝ- is a market for things near other things, e.g. bǝ-ghad = near hill | |||
* Scadea, She-xan-zé (Shǝxa̵đé) | |||
* Ne-xan (Nǝxan, gan) - nǝ- is a genitive prefix. | |||
* Je-ma-ne-xan (Jǝma(nǝx/g)an) - From *jǝma (cf Lethea ima = sea), and nǝxan. | |||
In case it isn't apparent, the Scadean Wai call themselves the Xan/Khan. The Letheans call them by their fully compounded name, and the Xua would probably call them "Han-Wai". | |||
=== Rogea, Tattavea and Cadmea === | |||
* Rokhvyj = rokh (horn), Cf Chinese, and vyj (country), cf. guó | |||
* Alternative form for "country" should be vykka (*k-GwWg?). | |||
* Tattavea, Tattavkuo = "Tataouine lake", based on the etymology rather than any resemblance to Tataouine. | |||
* Ustea = Sl. ustó, "Mouthsea". | |||
* Cadmea = Some Arabic dialectal word for mouth appeared to be "kazm" so I combined that with Greek chasm. | |||
:* Kavsha shows lenition, metathesis and RUKI s->sh; sound changes are basically "Generic Brythonic + Slavic". | |||
=== Sezhengai and Asage === | |||
* These peoples speak daughter languges of the Sǝšǝmkyx confederacy. | |||
* Yaza-yaza is a duplication of yaza, which is jǝnas in the original Sǝšǝmkyx language. | |||
=== Talivan === | |||
* -vo = genitive | |||
* -me = comitative, dual | |||
* -k/ts = plural | |||
Thus Talivomets = tali-vo-me-k | |||
=== Xuaer, Khvi, and Shu/Hlao/Zao === | |||
* Xuaer used to be called Huier, but the resemblance to the real world Hui people felt a bit misleading | |||
* But then I liked Hui /xuj/ so I reused it for Khvi, except I also did a quick sound change to avoid resemblance with certain Slavic vulgar terms | |||
* Shu, Hlao, and Zao are like Tai/Dai/Hlai etc in the Kra-Dai language family. The original form was *Hlao. |
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