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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May <rmay@m...> wrote: ---SNIP--- > > I did a nonce-thing here for medium-sized. gaca means 'bigness', so > cengaca would mean medium-bigness, but I don't really like it. I > need a prefix word to make of medium size, temperature, whatever. > cenga seems like it means of moderate largeness, not medium size. I > thought about just 'gapi' and it might work 'kyarkray' of medium > temperature. (btw, I finally decided on kray from CRYogenic) If we > use that method for merging opposites, we'd end up with tcaqpotcaq > for of medium length, paypya for of medium age, etc. What do you think? > I think this push-me-pull-you approach suits the language best. Since we tend to describe or identify things by the ways in which they deviate from average, it's not crucial to have a short way to say "average in height" or whatever. But it's still nice to have a better way than English does. ---Krawnzo