Ba

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Bodzvokhan

Etymology

From Sungdin *b + Sungdin *-ʕ.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ba/

Rhymes: -a

Orthographic Form

ba

Cyrillic Orthographic Form

ба

Pronoun

ba (independent third person singular, plural khu)

  1. he, she, it; third person singular personal pronoun, independent form
Inflection

Noalath

Etymology

From an invisible proto-language
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Pronunciation

IPA(key): /bə/

Rhymes:

Preposition

ba

  1. (locative) at, on, in, upon, near, around (assigns the objective case)
  2. (comparative) than
  3. co-occurs with the subject of a verb in the conditional or future tenses
    Hi yu arisha ü Choan Yordho ba jof thun nevith chailim!
    We will bathe the Four Lands in Elven blood!
    -Dagda Mor (The Shannara Chronicles, Episode 109)
Derived Terms

Sangheili

Etymology

From Proto-Sangheili *bax.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ba/

Postposition

ba

  1. (elative) out of, out from (co-occurs with the elative arguments)
  2. (genitive) of (used when the possessee is an emotional state or an opinion from the possessor)

Trigedasleng

Etymology

From English but.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /bə/

Rhymes:

Conjunction

ba

  1. but

Veda

Etymology

From Proto-Veda *bʔ.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ba/

Orthographic Form

ba

Noun

ba

  1. time

Creation and Usage Notes

Ordinarily I'd invest a bit more thought in a word for "time", but given the status of this language as a mother language, and the conculture, I figured it'd be best to do a simple, basic word for "time" (think 𓂓 from Egyptian).

-David J. Peterson 16:46, 31 December 2019 (PST)