Knaan
The Four Knaans
Tpaalha has an aggressive series of sound changes that, along with an extraordinarily permissible set of phonotactics, has the capability of producing a plethora of homonyms. During the second season of LangTime Studio, it became a joke that a word pronounced [knaːn] would have a series of different meanings, with sages saying things like, "No! I refer not to the third, but to the fourth knaan!" We decided to see how many different words we could squeeze into the modern phonetic sequence [knaːn] and confidently came up with four, though it might be possible to produce others. We figured four was good, though many opossums would still refer to the mysterious, lost fifth knaan. The word became a kind of meme for opossums and for LangTime Studio in general.
Tpaalha
Etymology 1
From Proto-Tpaalha *knan.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aːn
Orthographic Form
- (Ancient)
- knan
- (Modern)
- knan
Noun
knaan (dual knansyi, plural zuknaan)
- nose
Inflection
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | knaan | knansyi | zuknaan |
Partitive | uknaan | uknansyi | uzgnaan |
Derived Terms
← 188 | 216 | |
---|---|---|
Cardinal: Knaan |
Etymology 2
From Proto-Tpaalha *kʌnan.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aːn
Orthographic Form
- (Ancient)
- konan
- (Modern)
- konan
Orthographic Numeric Form
- (Ancient)
- 1000
- (Modern)
- 1000
Numeral
knaan
- two-hundred sixteen (one thousand in base-6)
Inflection
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | knaan | knansyi | zuknaan |
Partitive | uknaan | uknansyi | uzgnaan |
Etymology 3
From Proto-Tpaalha *kǝnan.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aːn
Orthographic Form
- (Ancient)
- knan
- (Modern)
- knan
Noun
knaan (dual knansyi, plural zuknaan)
- truth
Inflection
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | knaan | knansyi | zuknaan |
Partitive | uknaan | uknansyi | uzgnaan |
Derived Terms
Etymology 4
From Proto-Tpaalha *ǝkʌnan.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aːn
Orthographic Form
- (Ancient)
- konan
- (Modern)
- konan
Noun
knaan (dual knansyi, plural zuknaan)
- mystery
Inflection
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | knaan | knansyi | zuknaan |
Partitive | uknaan | uknansyi | uzgnaan |
Creation and Usage Notes
The fourth knaan now refers to mystery, in general, as its original meaning has been lost to the mists of time.
-David J. Peterson 14:35, 4 September 2024 (PDT) |
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