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vocabulary



I suggest a short word to mean 'an average amount of'.

tawil = tall
potawil = short
vertawil = neither particularly short nor tall

Alternatively, "tawil" could mean simply the concept of height (as in 
vertical extent, not altitude), without indicating tallness or 
shortness. Then:

tawil = of some height; (colloquially, average in height?)
vertawil = of average height
gatawil = tall
pitawil = short

Another suggestion: choose a different morpheme for 'land' 
or 'country' instead of "stan", for a stupid reason that I hate even 
bringing up: a lot of Americans won't like "Hameristan" as the name 
of their country.

--Larry