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On 3/19/06, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Jim Henry wrote: > > > On 3/19/06, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > > > >>>>> How's this sound. Take 'peni' from French 'penible' for > >>>>> difficult, > >>>>> and reverse to 'pine' for easy? > > .... > >> For 'easy', I find Hungarian könnyu, which could be Tceqliized as > >> konyu, or Sanskrit sarala, which seems a syllable too long. Now, > >> we - > >> could- have 'fsil', but that's a little too consonant-clustery even > >> for me. > > > > Is the /uj/ in "kuyno" a permitted diphthong in Tceqli, though? > > > >> I found Korean 'swiun', but I'm not sure how to pronounce it, and it > >> may be a little too complex phonetically in any case. > > > > Reversed as "snuiw" if I guess right... yeah, if the base word > > isn't too hairy, the reversal certainly is. > > > > Greek has /xalepOn/, which might be truncated to "hal" > > -> "hla"? No, bad idea. > > Thing about this is, tho, I've been convinced that 'easy' doesn't > need a reversible, as it or it's opp won't be used a great deal in > compounds, I think. > > I'm wondering if we'd need 'hal' for anything more important. We > might, but we could certainly use 'hale'. kom banana hale. kom > kala pohale. go hale finfa to kam. tcasa hon hale bekan. > > Okay, I like 'hale' and 'pohale'. Putting them in the dictionary. > go danko vorgu stafa da. Um.... I wasn't clear. "chalepon" means "difficult", not easy. (At least I find bananas slightly easier to eat than fish.) If no reversal is needed, why not back up and take the root for either "difficult" or "easy" from a more widely spoken language than Greek, like your first try, "peni"? -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/gzb.htm http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/esp.htm http://www.esperanto-atlanta.org http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm