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And yes, ED, I'm pathetically cribbing your lexicon. It looks cool.
Anatomy[]
- foot n IVs [*fōts]
- foot
Animals[]
- rindj n Is [*hrinþaz]
- boar
- domestic animal, pet
Emotions[]
- öönsj (önner-) n IIh [*wundrą]
- wonder
- Note: this is declined with the stem önner-, e.g. önneri
- önnerber adj [önner-ber]
- wonderful
Flight, Avians[]
- ern n Ih [*arnô < arô]
- eagle
Flora[]
- eek n IVh [*aiks]
- oak
Geography, names of countries, demonyms, etc.[]
- Eejpöög n IVh [eej-pöög]
- Idoburg
- Eejpöögersj (Eejpöögsj) adj [eej-pöög-er-sj, eej-pöög-sj]
- Idoburgish
- (first form only) the Idoburgish language
- eej n IIIh [*awjō]
- island
- Eenglandj n IIh [German Eng(land) + landj]
- England, Britain
- kries n IIs [OHG kreiȥ]
- district, geographical division
- landj (lann-) n IIh [*landą or Lim. landj]
- country
- noord n IIh [OHG nord]
- north
- nöötsj n IIh [*nurþrą]
- (dated) north
- söötsj n IIh [*sunþrą]
- south
- wereldj n Is [*weraldiz]
- world
- wesj n IIh (wesjt-) [*westrą]
- west
- Wesjtrilandj (-lann-) n IIh [wesjt-ri-landj]
- the Netherlands
- öösj n IIh (öösjt-) [*austrą]
- east
- Öösjlandj n IIh [öösj-landj]
- Germany
Hierarchy[]
- nieëkoomer n Ihx [niew-koom-er]
- novice, initiate, beginner
Home, Building, Settlements[]
- höös n IIs [*hūsą]
- house, home
- leejen [*lag(i?)janą]
- lay
- plàtten [Lim. plate, infl. by Ib. word plàt(t)]
- pave,
- pöög n IVh [*burgz]
- settlement
- (rare) town
- pööjen v III2w [*būaną, poss. backformation from "pöög"]
- to build, construct
- sjtedj [*stadiz]
- city, town
- tööp n IIh [*þurpą]
- village
- land (used only in the phrase mien tööp)
- tööpsj adj [tööp-sj]
- rural
- (informal) uneducated
- tur n IVh [*durz]
- door
Humans, people[]
- mann n Ih [*mann-]
- man, human, person
- manneheed n IIs [mann-heed]
- humanity
- tsjeël n Ih [*þragilaz]
- slave, thrall, prisoner
, errand boy
- slave, thrall, prisoner
Light[]
- 'gaslampe n Ihe [German Gaslampe]
- gas lamp
- löötsjen v 1w [*liuhtijaną]
- to light, to give light
Movement[]
- footganger n Ihx [foot-gang-er, German Fußgänger]
- pedestrian
- gangan v 3w [*ganganą]
- go, walk
- sjtraotj n IIIs uml [Latin strata]
- street, paved road
- sjömman v 3s oo [*swimmaną]
- to swim
Speech, Linguistics[]
- plàtj n Is [Lim. plat or Rip. Platt, influenced by flàtj "plain"]
- speech, dialect, language
- (je) Plàtj n Is [plàtj]
- (informal) the Idoburgish language
- séhjen (sáh-; ségk) v Iw irr [*sagjaną]
- to say
- séching n IIIh [sáh-ing]
- sentence
- saying, proverb
Kinship[]
- tööj (tödj, töd-) n IIIs [*þiud-; *þeudō]
- tribe, family
- töötsj adj [*þiudiskaz]
- tribal
- Germanic
Time[]
- diedj n Is [*tīdiz]
- time, hour
- frooj (froo-) adj [*frōwaz]
- early
Uncategorized (so far), general[]
- befaolen v IIw [OHG pfāl, cf. Dutch bepaalen]
- define, determine
- förteeljen v Iw [för-teeljen]
- spread
- gantj adj [*gantaz]
- whole, all of
- getan v IVs [*getaną]
- to get, to acquire
- (g)iessen v IIw [*gitisōną?]
- to guess
- machen v IIw [*makōną]
- make, do
- sicher adj [*sikuraz]
- safe, secure
- teel n IIh [*dailą]
- part, fraction
- töödjen v Iw
- understand, translate/interpret
- werdan v IVs [*werþaną]
- become
- passive voice aux. verb
- öötmachen v IIw [ööt-machen]
- comprise, compose
- refl., af be comprised of
Appearance, Quality[]
- goodj (beter, besj/besjt-) adj [*gōdaz, batizô, batistaz]
- good, of good quality
- gröötj adj [*grautaz]
- big
- Note: it's used with teel and comparative/superlative of feel (meer, meesj(t-) in the meaning of "a significant part, majority": meesjte teel "the most part, a significant majority"
- tosjtöören v IIw [calque from German zerstören]
- sjap (sjäp) n IIh [*skapą]
- shape, condition
- sjawan (sjäwan) v Vh [*skabaną]
- to shave, to pluck (hair/feathers)
- sjöön adj [*skauniz]
- nice, beautiful
Science, post-mediaeval technology, etc.[]
- buusenpuder n IIh [buusen-puder]
- gunpowder, smokeless powder; any type of powder firearm propellant
- drök n IIh [dröken < German drücken]
- print, printing press
- dröken v IIw [German drücken]
- to print, type
- ienföörjen v Iw [ien-föörjen]
- to invent, to introduce
- öötdenkjen v Iw [ööt-denkjen]
- come up with, invent
War[]
- buuse n Ihe [OHG buhsa]
- firearm, rifle
- krieg n Ih [OS krīg, *krē₂gaz]
- war, armed conflict
Water, plumbing[]
- klaoke n irr-e [Latin cloaca]
- sewer
- roor n IIh [OHG rōr]
- pipe, tube
- sjömsle n IIhe [sjöm-sle]
- swimming pool, pond
- water n IVh [*watōr]
- water
- wateroor n IIh [water-roor]
- usually in plural aqueduct
Pronouns[]
- man [*mann-]
- one (indef. 3rd person singular pronoun)
Affixes[]
- -ber adj [OWG -bāri]
- forms adjectives from roots with meaning "having ..."
- e- [*ga-]
- forms participles from verbs
- -er n Ihx [-ārijaz, -warjaz], declension merged with -ar
- forms agent nouns from verbs
- forms words with the meaning "inhabitant of..."
- -heed n IIs [*haiduz]
- -hood, -ness
- -ig adj [*-igaz]
- generic suffix forming adjectives from roots
- niew- (nieë- before consonants) [*niwjaz, niewe]
- forms nouns from participles (w/o e- prefix) or from roots suffixed with -er, with the meanings "to ... again" and "new ..." respectively.
- -sj (-isj after a non-palatalizable consonant) adj [*-iskaz]
- generic adjective-forming suffix
- -sle n IIhe [*-slą]
- used to form nouns from verbs
Prepositions[]
- af +N/+G
- of, from
- gein +N [*gagina]
- against, opposite
- in +N/D; +A [*in]
- (with nominative/dative) in
- (with accusative) into
- neto +N/+D [*nehw-tō?]
- near
- öm +A [*umbi]
- about, around
- tweedj +N/+D [*twai-??]
- between
- över +N [*ubiri]
- over, on
- ööt +N [*ūt]
- out (of)
Interjections, conjunctions, etc.[]
- do [OHG doh; late borrowing]
- though, but
- om je (gantje(n) ...
- ...-wide, all over the ...
- över dat
- moreover, on top of that
- è [Lim. è]
- (following an adjective) that's (so) <adjective>
- Note: It's used without a copula only in short phrases when subject is not specified (e.g. Önnerber è. - That's (so) wonderful.), and if the subject is specified, it requires to be used with a copula (e.g. Eejpöög önnerber è. - Idoburg is (indeed) wonderful.)
- (informal) a particle used to amplify any preceding statement
- used as an interrogative particle (similar to question tags in English)
- (following an adjective) that's (so) <adjective>