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.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
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!