Part I: New Words
Note that I have created all 12 words. You should only make four for part one.
alien
lai-wU-lai-daq
ordinary-neg-ordinary-duck (laiwUlai = unusual)
rocketship ci-pipa
hardened-bird
raygun
ci-kaqu
hardened-wildfire
abduction
mici-yunai
person-steal
flood
da-lisa-da
kill-river-bad
boat ci-daq
hardened-duck
fungus
lia-da moss-bad (note the underlying form here is liaq-da
to make the sound of rushing water:
Siasaha-sa
X-go
healer/doctor
mici-siq
person-good
the name of the disease
ala-da
rain-bad
to feel sick
yiyi-li-da
begin-spirit-bad
cure
yaqu-siq
give-good
French fry
palama-ya-pila
stick-small-food
handheld video game
ha-wu-ha-piq
know-neg-know-incarnate (hawuha = foolishness)
couch potato
didi-daq
buttocks-duck
advertisement
ha-wu-ha-payu
know-neg-know-speak vbr> (hawuha = foolishness)
Part II
- Ten new words, morphologically related to ten other words in Liqupa:
- dupu-daq moon-duck; N. A crazy idea.
- dupu-wali; moon-bottle' N. Moonshine, hooch
- nala-wali, sand-bottle; N. Hourglass, clock
- ha-wi-ha idea-beauituful-idea. interjection: hurray, great!
- la-daq, cold-duck. N. a dislikable person
- mu-daq; warm-duck. N. a likable person.
- mu-la-mu-la warm-cold-warm-cold; Adj. boring, unpleasantly tepid.
- mama-daq catch-duck. n. apprehended fugitive usually after committing a petty crime
- daq-uma-sia duck-sound-ingest. v. to be gullable. Lit; to listen to the ducks
- mai-uma-sia pine-sound-ingest. v. to meditate. lit. to listen to the pines.
- muda-sia darkness-ingest, become evil
- didi-piq buttocks-incarnate, fool
- Instances of homonymy
- nuna: mountain
nuna: broccoli
- dusi yurt
dusi summer time (dry season)
- Instances of polysemy
- yaqu: to give;
yaqu: hand (noun)
yaqu: the number 5 or a group of 5 or fewer objects (from five fingers on the hand)
- didi: to sit;
didi: buttocks
Updated 3/31/2010