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okay actually I decided to try it for fun and the conlangers kinda went off with constructing etymologies and shit. sharing the results of my quick and dirty experimental place-name construction and how I arrived at it so said conlangers can nitpick me.

Starting name: Merwan

Name given by the local Thaish people to a range of low, glaciated old mountains along the southeastern coast of the Isle Varnaan. It’s supposed to mean “anthills” or “ant nests” in an older dialect. I’ve been wanting to update it so it follows the (loose) conventions I’ve established for Thaish phonology and syntax. The Thaish language family is very-somewhat-slightly inspired by Old Irish and Proto-Celtic, with some Proto-Brythonic thrown in just because.

So, starting out - establish the name we want means “ant nest” (I’m going with nest to avoid the repetition of hill/mountain).

Ant: I want the Thaish word to translate literally to “biting thing”.

Nest: I’m making a word that can mean nest, den, lair, etc. Used in reference to animals, usually never to humans unless in a negative sense ( “scurrying back to his nest, is he?” ).

Dedicated conlangers won’t like this but I just played with sounds until I hit on something I liked and which sounded internally consistent.

Wead = ant, lit. “biting thing”, from Proto-Thaish eathi, “to cut”. Shares a root with ead, the word for river.

Imin = nest, from Proto-Thaish eimiini, “to hide”.

Thaish word order is subject (n) + descriptor (adj) so this comes out as imin wead.

Thaish also likes compounding place-names, so we end up with Iminwead.

According to Thaish conventions, a place-name always includes a prefix that tells you what kind of place it is (Dan for a mountain, Ead for a river, Tir for a city, etc). That gives us Dana Iminwead. In the case of mountains, the descriptor can also be used alone by modifying it into a plural noun with the suffix -a. Now we have Iminweada as well.

Old South Varnaanite Thaish: Dana Iminwead, Iminweada

For realism’s sake, I want to simulate what happens with real languages over time. I’ve decided that modern Thaish has trended towards simplified vowel sounds, and heavily favors consonant-heavy forms, the Varnaanite dialects especially. In Modern South Varnaanite Thaish, Iminwead has been condensed to Minwed, dropping the vowel at the beginning of the name.

So we end up with: Dana Minwed, Minweda

Honestly, I feel like this isn’t too bad for my first real attempt at a fully constructed word. It keeps the spirit of the original but (to me at least) also feels more in line with the linguistic conventions I’ve come up with. 

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Not stoked, but grateful anyway. #issaday (at Queen Emma Gardens Aoao) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrJI9O4h38uo3rKOJ0g7Ju_1OOpk_XjLkf0ib00/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ara0xucw2wvq

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decided last-minute to include another sentient species in Issadai, so introducing the Tousa--aka “elves, but make it weird”. they are hunter-gatherers who live in the jungles and mangrove swamps south of the Mysskaen Sea. their only major city, Hle’alu, is located on the delta of the Eto’a River where it flows into a lake, and it’s a center of trade for both Tousa and the human occupants of the region. Tousa are known among humans for being skilled fishermen, weavers, and mages. because of differences in vocal tract anatomy, they cannot pronounce some sounds (mostly certain vowel sounds) found in human languages, so a pidgin language has developed between Tousa and the human cultures they trade with that omits these sounds. 

they can interbreed with humans, but they’re much more fragile, physiologically speaking, so hybrid offspring are pretty rare. generally hybrids have a much better chance of surviving to birth if they’re being carried by the human parent.

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Issaday, Adom 3, 10018

10001 Bessie Stringfield is born in Truth, St. Marcus Island, in the Sojourner Island Chain. Nicknamed "the Motorcycle Queen," Stringfield was the first woman to ride across the continent Uriel- Jeterrae solo and, during the Light War (10026-10030), she served as one of the few motorcycle dispatch riders for the W.E. Army. Signed as an ambassador of the Hardy-Vaughns Motor Company of Moonsocket, Ammland, Stringfield will ride her bikes on every continent, performing stunts at carnivals and motorcycle shows. Inducted into the Ebonese Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 10046, she will have an Ebonese Motorcycle Association award for "Superior Achievement by a Female Motorcyclist" named in her honor in 10050.

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Jocko

Milk Run

8/13/2017

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here’s lookin’ at you, kid.

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some small Ariahds

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it’s been a while since I’ve done a full body ref of Tomrin & his clothes needed updating so here he is when he’s (relatively) normal

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Ariahd as a tielfing

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here’s some current Ariahd too

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a human glowstick

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drew Amani as well to get used to her updated design

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I haven’t drawn Tomrin since before the radical style evolution I went thru the last couple months and wow. he’s starting to look uncomfortably close to a real person

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decided to push the design of my weird primate elves a little further

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Ariahd may be middle-aged but that doesn’t mean he has a dad bod

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husbands