karaluuebru wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2019 2:28 am
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kàilá f /'kai.la:/
Good omen, lucky sign
High Lulani
kala /ˈkʰalə/
saltwater carp: a type of fish, lives in tidal pools on Mala Ptokonoi, considered to be lucky.
I don't know enough about the culture of my proto-language speakers to actually know what they find lucky, but since this sounded like the Toki Pona word for
fish, that's what it became.
I hit my "random word" link for the next word, and the first thing it came up with was
ramaha /ɽəˈmahə/
subtriadic number "a number one less than a multiple of three". It was strange to me that English has
odd and
even, meaning "multiple of two" and "not a multiple of two", but nothing for higher numbers. I don't expect anyone to need a word like this, so a better choice might be:
Next word:
tapucijja /ˌtʰapʰʉˈcʰiɟʱːə/
to be drunk <
tapu to enjoy +
cijja alcohol