2025 Lexember 6
prompt: animals

epepeki /e.pe.'pe.ki/ (n) grasshopper, locust

components: epe: insect, pek-: harm, damage; destroy

Grasshoppers are normally solitary and not very numerous, but under certain conditions (rapid vegetation growth after a period of drought), they can enter a swarming phase where they congregate and breed into huge numbers of locusts, which look and behave very differently from normal grasshoppers.

Swarms of locusts migrate across large areas, destroying the crops and vegetation in their path. Farming is very important in the Cinano (ʃi.'na.no) and Mossebila (mos.se.'bi.la) regions of the Lenasi world, so it's not surprising that the name of this animal means "destructive insect".

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2025 Lexember 5
prompt: senses

mumkoje /mum.'ko.ʤe/ (v) imagine, visualize

component roots: mum ('image'), koj- ('think')

I already have words for the five physical senses. The ability to visualize mental images is a kind of "seeing" faculty so I'm putting it in this category too.

related word: anansamuma /a.nan.sa.'mu.ma/ dream; vision. From roots nan ('mind, brain') and mum ('image') it translates to 'mind images'.

The reason the two words have different roots is that when you imagine something you are deliberately thinking about it ('koje') to create the mental image, whereas 'anansamuma' refers to the mental images themselves, which arise on their own in a dream or vision.

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2025 Lexember 4
prompt: actions

temdeke /tem.'de.ke/ (v) chop

component roots: tem ('cut'), dek- ('hit, strike')

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2025 Lexember 3
prompt: body

ipuffu /i.'puf.fu / (n) corpse, something dead

I already have words for most of the main body parts. I was going to do just another part, but I think the word 'corpse' has a better chance of being used in a story one of these days.

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2025 Lexember 2
prompt: Groups

obatujō /o.ba.tu.'ʤoː/ (n) library (collection of books)

components: o (noun class prefix for general things, esp. man-made), batu ('book'), jō ('group, collection')

(edited to fix pronunciation)

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2025 Lexember 1
prompt: People

uhasefamu /u.ha.se.'fa.mu/ (n) advocate (such as a lawyer)

components: u (noun class prefix for people) hase ('speak'), fa ('for, on behalf of'), mu ('person')

related word: Hasefalim /ha.se.fa.'lim/ Title for a professional advocate/lawyer. The root 'lim' means 'professional, expert; skilled' and often appears as a suffix in professional titles.

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In Kala this would be "kupyola", a mash-up of "kupa" - death, and "pyola" roll; spin; twirl.

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Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

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