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1a. Re: How to choose the name of a conlang?
From: Carsten Becker
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1a. Re: How to choose the name of a conlang?
Posted by: "Carsten Becker" [email protected]
Date: Sat Mar 9, 2013 4:15 am ((PST))
On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 13:36:27 -0300, Leonardo Castro <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> A. "language-spoken-by-people-X": English, Français, Português, tlhIngan Hol
>> (?), etc.
>
>* "language of linkers", "language of community", "language of this
>group"... "linker" has two senses: people who link themselves to
>others and the "verbs" that link a noun to another ;
And then, there's German, whose self-designation, Deutsch, just meant
'people-ish' originally, from Germ.-MLat. theodiscus 'belonging to one's own
people', cf. PG *þeuðō 'people' + -isk- 'adj. related to' (OHG thiutisk, MHG
tiutsch), according to the dwds.de entry for 'deutsch'. It's of course also the
origin of the word Dutch.
I have nothing figured out yet for my own conlang, but it's been peeving me for
some time already that I made the name in -i, since -i is not a derivative
morpheme in this language. People have suggested that it might be an exonym.
OTOH, the people's endonym might be Ayer, though that'd be an unusual word in
the language, since only few words end in -r. I don't remember if I coined aye
'people, crew' from that consciously; a word for 'people' I coined later anyway
and which I used more frequently is keynam. As alternatives based on what was
listed here before, there would be narān 'language' (< nara- 'to speak'), narān
ban 'good language', narān biming 'understandable language'. 'Language of the
people' would be _narān keynamena_.
Carsten
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