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====Creation and Usage Notes====
====Creation and Usage Notes====

Latest revision as of 05:40, 13 October 2024

Shiväisith

Shiväisith numbers (edit)
70
 ←  6 7 8  → 
    Cardinal: Gah
    Ordinal: Gakkis

Etymology

From an invisible proto-language
The etymology of this word comes from an invisible proto-language. If you're confident you know the etymology, feel free to add it, but reader beware should the etymology be added by someone other than the creator of the language!

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ɡɑh/

Rhymes: -ɑh

Orthographic Form

gah

Orthographic Numeric Form

7

Numeral

gah (nominative singular)

  1. seven (7); nominative singular adjectival concord
Inflection

Creation and Usage Notes

You ever regret a sound change because of how much work it forces you to do? Because I do. A lot.

Stupid diphthongs... None of these are right, by my original conception. Every gae and gai should be gäi, which is cool, I guess. On the other hand, it occurred to me that this was quite a natural way to get that elusive triple length. That is, ga is different from gaa which itself is different from the gaa that resulted from original *gaha. The latter, in fact, gives you that Estonian falling tone plus length quite naturally. Pretty cool, though I wasn't aiming for that originally. Let's just say I intended it.

-David J. Peterson 03:31, 5 February 2020 (PST)