Wèlá
Méníshè
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
wèlá (air class, plural wèláyà)
- song
- Lúchálèzhì jìrùvónàz ramé wèláyà ènò.
- You made weapons of your songs.
- -Adil (Motherland: Fort Salem, Episode 106)
- You made weapons of your songs.
- Lúchálèzhì jìrùvónàz ramé wèláyà ènò.
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
wèlá
- plain negative infinitive/imperfective direct evidential of èlá
Creation and Usage Notes
It is an etymological accident that the word for "to not sing" is homophonous with the word for "song". It's nearly impossible to confuse the two in a sentence (too much other stuff in between), but on a page like this, it must seem quite bizarre. Jessie and I decided early on that we'd have something very old and very basic for negation (the proto sound *u), and then separately came up with an etymology for the air class prefix that ended up having the same morphophonological alternation (i.e. [v] before [u], [w] before other vowels, and [u] otherwise). A happy accident that can't properly be captured on this wiki.
-David J. Peterson 15:23, 20 September 2020 (PDT) |
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