Conlang Year: Week 23
This week, I dive deeper into my adverb quandary. As always, prompts are here.
Day 155 - Create forms of “non-basic” adverbs
As I previously established, the way Thekkish makes non-basic adverbs is by appending the particle "βa" to the end of adj3ectives. Here's a few examples:
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bɛm.ɛd.βa | darkly |
| ðax.ʃm.ɢa.sɪn.βa | scarily |
| zaɪ.βa | well |
| ʃysθ.βa | poorly |
| sɛɪ | high |
| Ʒða | low |
Note that the prepositions sɛɪ and Ʒða, above and below respectively, are now also mean high and low when used as adverbs.
Day 156 - Explore options for adverb modifiers
I went through and did Day 157 as I explored these, so look ahead to the next section.
Day 157 - Create degree and discourse adverbs
Here's what I came up with while working on adverb modifiers. I ended up making some new adjectival roots, using existing adjectival roots, and making some new basic adverbs.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ɣɛθ | barely (not enough) |
| ɢaɪɸ.ʃaɪ | slightly, gently |
| xɛp | excessively, extremely |
| ɸɾu.saɪ | precisely, the right amount |
| ʎam.ʒøŋʃ.βa | firstly |
| ŋoʃ.βa | finally |
| sɛɪ.boŋʃ.ɾa.sɪn.βa | importantly |
| uβ.ɪq | also |
| ɢɪ.ʒɪ | anyway, changing a subject |
Day 158 - Write a section on adverbs
I've been keeping this section of my documentation updated as I went through these exercises, so fortunately this is already done.
Day 159 - Update your dictionary with adverbs
Just like Day 158, I did this as I was creating my words.
Day 160 - Create new sentences to showcase adverbs
"First, the scout jumped high on the rocks."
JUMP.3.pa high first SCOUT.nom on rocks.acc
ʒɛx.mɛɪɸ.ʃθʌ sɛɪ ʎam.ʒøŋʃ.βa ta.ɾɛʃ.mɛ.ɾa ŋa ʃɪθ.βan.ɢaŋ
"Then, she watched the elephants there."
WATCH.3.pa then SHE.nom ELEPHANTS.acc there
ʒɛx.βaθ ðam qyɸ ɸθɾaŋ.ɾaŋ ðmɛt
"She scarily spoke the warning for the clan."
SPEAK.3.pa scarily SHE.nom WARNING.acc for CLAN.dat
ʒɛx.qɪð.wøŋ ðax.ʃm.ɢa.sɪn.βa qyɸ ta.θaɪ.ɢaŋ ʃa ɾɪm.ʃθoŋ.ɾaɪm
Day 161 - Brainstorm options for measuring and marking time
The world of the Jewelsea has three moons with periods of seven, thirteen, and nineteen days, so it probably makes sense to have a word for each of those periods as well as the basic words for day and night. The Thekkish language area contains both tropical regions that have a cold/hot/wet season model and more temperate regions that break the seasons up into four or six. The years are roughly 363.33 days long, so their calendar divides the year by the largest moon's cycle with 19 months of 19 days, leaving two or three intercalary days depending on the year.
Time is measured much as in our world. With a base 12 numbering system, they divide both day and night into twelve parts and then subdivide thoe parts again into 12 segments. With ancient technology, there's not much use in being more precise than that.
Well, it took me a bit longer than planned to get this one out, but it was fun to get to think a bit more about my worldbuilding for Day 161. I hope to get another one of these out next week!