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date: 2023-12-25
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title: merr chrismas
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tags: [lántas, conlangs]
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conlang: laantas
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...
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# just tell me how to say it please
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sure thing. here.
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:::glosses
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- ufit þulkusimsari
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- [ˌufit ˈθuɫkɔsĩsɐʒi]
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- ufi-t þulkusi-m-sa-ri
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- cozy-GEN midwinter-DEF-AD-PRL
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- (be) cozy during midwinter
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:::
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# details
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now i am not a huge fan of putting christianity into my conlang, which is
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hopefully understandable. but having a midwinter festival sounds cute. the days
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are finally getting longer! you made it through the worst part! and so on. so
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that's what this is. i think it probably takes place the day after the solstice,
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but with several days of festivities, so that there is still a little overlap
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with the _other_ winter holiday. it's still appropriate to say it today.
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## seasons
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| time | name | | pron. | translation |
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|----------|---------------|--------------|--------------|-------------|
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| nov--jan | `{#igisim}` | `{igisim}` | `[ˈiʝɛsĩ]` | the freeze |
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| feb | `{#susurum}` | `{susurum}` | `[ˈsusʊrõ]` | the melt |
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| mar--may | `{#šangubam}` | `{šangubam}` | `[ˈʃaŋɡɔvɑ̃]` | the bloom |
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| jun--aug | `{#guwanḿ}` | `{guwanḿ}` | `[ˈɡɔwɑnm̩]` | the sun |
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| sep--oct | `{#santum}` | `{santum}` | `[ˈsantõ]` | the rain |
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- in between `{!igisim}` (winter) and `{!šangubam}` (spring), the month of
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february is considered a transition between the two, `{!susurum}`.
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- as a result, `{!santum}` (autumn) is only two months long.
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- `{!šangubam}` comes from `{!šani}` (flower) and `{!guba}` (grow, thrive).
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## putting it together
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the word "midwinter", without any inflections, is `{!þulkusim}`, which comes
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from `{!þulku}` "be deep" and `{!igisim}`. unusually for lántas, `{!þulku}` is a
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verb, rather than a noun. why? who knows.
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::: {.aside .floating}
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on that page, where you see a `{ƶ}`, replace it with `{þ}`. i haven't got round
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to updating that yet. it also has the ugly text until i redraw `{!č\ ǧ\}`, since
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at least if it's all ugly it's consistent. sorry about that.
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:::
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the suffix `{!–sari}` is actually a pair of two suffixes, which together mean
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through, or during. the details of the whole situation are [here][loc], but it
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is a cool two-dimensional system based on a thing that can be found in some
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languages of the caucasus. the `{!–m}` on the end (of all these words so far,
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actually) is "the". so the full form `{!þulkusimsari}` means "during midwinter".
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now, for `{!ufit}`. there is a small, but technically non-zero, chance that you
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remember the word `{!uf{a}t}` from [here][hallow], with the meaning of "warm".
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this is actually the same word, but a bit cutesy. so, cozy.
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the implied verb in this sentence is `{!iksaha}`, like before. this is an
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auxiliary verb for requests. for example, if `{!šikkúha}` means "you are going",
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then `{!šikkúm iksaha}` means "please go away". the `{–ha}` here means "you"
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(singular). here it's dropped because the phrase is long enough already to be
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easily understood.
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so in the end, you get `{!ufit þulkusimsari}`, meaning "[stay] cozy during the
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midwinter".
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:::twocol-grid
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{width=100%}
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::: {.glosses .left}
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- þugusim ai
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- [ˈθuɣɔsĩm‿ai]
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- þugusi-m ai
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- miwiner-DEF be
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- it crismas
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:::
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{width=100%}
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::: {.glosses .left}
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- ufi þugusinhari
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- [ˌufi ˈθuɣɔsĩŋxɑʒi]
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- ufi-(t) þugusi-m-hari
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- cozy-(GEN) miwiner-DEF-DURIN’
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- merr crismas
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:::
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:::
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[loc]: https://lang.niss.website/laantas/nouns.html#locational-cases
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[hallow]: https://cohost.org/niss/post/3366713-ufat-iksaha
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