Totally TMI Idiom Du Jour

I am female and sometimes I need to talk about the biological things that come along with that for most of us female folk. I recently came up with a Nevashi phrase for menstruation: to have high tide. This uses "ca" (bodily functions and speech) with "def" (to have, hold, contain, etc)-- a fairly rare combination.

Ci def im ececian. She has high tide. (Insert your favorite euphemism for menstruation here.)

You can blame Alabama for this, by the way. A Crimson Tide bumper sticker on the car ahead of me at a stoplight started this train of thought.

Lexember x2

Since there are two -ember months in a row, I've decided to do back-to-back Lexembers, or 61 days of word creation. Today is day five, but Nevashi has gained more than five words so far. Here's the list: 

zere	plant
zerenesh	vegetable (food)	zere + nash, with the e carried over
ortlua	squash, gourd
ortluazh	pumpkin
den	sound, noise; to make a sound/noise (fa)
nedden	to chant (ca; religious)	nedh + den
kelu	body
vesa	torso; (tree) trunk
detishna	notebook	detish (paper) + na  (collective)
defín	container; storage; box
yai	wall (structural, e.g. of a house); separate (fa)
yaiva	separation (n)
dyofios	outdoors	dyo + fios
pafios	indoors	pa + fios
ashan	field, meadow; yard
yai ashani	fence, wall (as fence)
yaidefin	cabinet, cupboard
defar	storage room; closet; pantry

And with that, I've passed the 700 word milestone. Defar was word #702. Onward to 800!