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| What does everybody think of this pair? hey - to have (Scots English hae) hye - to lack I'd like to have a reversal in this case because it seems neat, and hye would serve as the -less suffix of English harhyejino - bald man The alternative is to keep ten, which doesn't reverse, and coin a new word for lack. Or, just use buten harbutenjino but that seems a little long, which is why I'm after a one-syllable reversal. Or, does anybody see a better root, reversable, for these meanings? Assuming the first, I think of some neat tersnesses. pani behye. Water is lacking, we're out of water. breynhye - brainless Any alternative pair should be monosyllablc, of course, and easily distinguishable. My biggest problem with hey/hye is that they don't sound all that much different from each other. And while I'm at it, I'm thinking that instead of roots for stand, sit, and lie, we could derive them from sta. sta - to be located. pawsta - to stand (foot-located) spinasta - to lie on one's back belista - to lie on one's stomach tyelosta - to lie (tyelo=body) haynsta - to sit (hayn from heinie) genusta - to kneel Rex May rmay@hidden.email 1-970-221-5528 Daily cartoon at: See some of my other cartoons at: Graphic novel I helped write at: |