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====Creation and Usage Notes====
====Creation and Usage Notes====
{{djpnotes|quote=As we were coming up with Engála's pronouns during [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-xQNPuRXA&t=6360s episode 110 of LangTime Studio], we hit upon an incredible idea for the first person plural pronoun. We would use a shortening of the word ''[[ungwéda]]'' which means "warren" (as in a rabbit warren). I went through the process of shortening the word via regular morphological lenition and ended up with [we], which coincidentally looks ''exactly'' like the first person plural pronoun of English. A viewer on our stream (user name LightDhampire) came up with a name for this: Serendipitous Linguistic Convergent Evolution. To turn this into a proper word, I added "We" to the end of it (as a reminder of what word led to the word's creation), and thus was born the term SCLEW.
{{djpnotes|quote=As we were coming up with Engála's pronouns during [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-xQNPuRXA&t=6360s episode 110 of LangTime Studio], we hit upon an incredible idea for the first person plural pronoun. We would use a shortening of the word ''[[ungwéda]]'' which means "warren" (as in a rabbit warren). I went through the process of shortening the word via regular morphological lenition and ended up with [we], which coincidentally looks ''exactly'' like the first person plural pronoun of English. A viewer on our stream (user name LightDhampire) came up with a name for this: Serendipitous Convergent Linguistic Evolution. To turn this into a proper word, I added "We" to the end of it (as a reminder of what word led to the word's creation), and thus was born the term SCLEW.
-''[[User:Djp|David J. Peterson]]'' 12:01, 3 September 2024 (PDT)}}
-''[[User:Djp|David J. Peterson]]'' 12:01, 3 September 2024 (PDT)}}


Revision as of 01:22, 6 September 2024

Engála

Etymology

Clipping of ungwéda .

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /we/

Orthographic Form

u
ǝǝ

Pronoun

we (singular un)

  1. we; first person plural personal pronoun (plain)
Inflection

Creation and Usage Notes

As we were coming up with Engála's pronouns during episode 110 of LangTime Studio, we hit upon an incredible idea for the first person plural pronoun. We would use a shortening of the word ungwéda which means "warren" (as in a rabbit warren). I went through the process of shortening the word via regular morphological lenition and ended up with [we], which coincidentally looks exactly like the first person plural pronoun of English. A viewer on our stream (user name LightDhampire) came up with a name for this: Serendipitous Convergent Linguistic Evolution. To turn this into a proper word, I added "We" to the end of it (as a reminder of what word led to the word's creation), and thus was born the term SCLEW.

-David J. Peterson 12:01, 3 September 2024 (PDT)

Trigedasleng

Etymology

From English away.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /wɛ/

Rhymes: -ɛ

Particle

we

  1. (verbal satellite) emphasizes motion away or expansion out in all directions
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