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Lexember 28th 2025 : Jäëvir

/jɛɪ̯.vɪr/ [jɛɪ̯vɪɾ̥] verb, intransitive

Fly

Today, I originally planned to make a word for "Dragon," because we fought the Enderdragon on a Minecraft server with friends today, but I am currently kind of redefining what a dragon even is for the Kolic, so now is really not the best time. So I went with "fly" instead.

Example sentence:

Däëtvni hrúnnijä jaevrä ýla!

look-IMP-PL bird-PL.LAT fly.INE there

Look at the birds flying over there!

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Lexember 8th 2025 : Bórtri

/boːr.trɪ/ [boːrtɾɪ] noun, masculine

Lizard ...but also Warrior

This word has a very interesting etymology! The quote unquote "proper" term for "lizard" is gartri bórägi - which translates literally to "combative salamander." The Kolic are way more familiar with salamanders than they are with lizards, so they named lizards after them. They called them "combative" because of the little stance they (apparently?) do. That then earned them the nickname "bórtri," which is derived with the same suffix from the word "bór," meaning "fight," and usually means "warrior" or "fighter."

The word gartri, by the way, comes from the word gara, meaning, water, plus the suffix -tri, essentially meaning "something characterised by water" or "a water guy." Idk, "-tri" is very difficult to translate into English.

You might notice that the i-umlaut is not applied here, (in the word bórtri nor in the word gartri). That's because the -tri suffix is younger than the perior when the i-umlaut was still an active phonological phenomenon. Nowadays, it's just a morphological phenomenon triggered by many older suffixes (and reverse-triggered in certain words by others).

Example sentence:

- Aera gär eifän bórtra!

- Ä, äða þýmri glae?

- Bööðri bórtrinin rígðinin.

be.F.ATEM 1SG see-ABL lizard-ACC

oh | and do.M.PST.IPF what

fight.M.PST.IPF lizard-COM other-M.COM

- I saw a lizard!

- Oh, and what was it doing?

- Fighting another lizard.

Thank you very much to @krakajici-kavka, who suggested this word and helped me a lot with its etymology! :3

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Lexember 6th 2025 : Mjärjun

/mjaːr.jən/ [mjaːɾjən] noun, diminutive

String

This word comes from the word "mjär," meaning "rope," which I've had for quite a long time already.

Example sentence:

Skäëjni Kaevra Hrúntrinin frójun mjärjänað.

tie-PL.ATEM Kaevra Hrúntri-COM doll-ACC string-INS

Kaevra with Hrúntri tied the doll with a string.

[kolic]

Lexember 4th 2025 : Synn

/sɪnː/ [sɪnː] noun, masculine

Red

That's right, this is the word I mystified you on yesterday. Unfortunately, due to the format I'm doing Lexember in here, I can't do the epic reveal as I did in my YouTube video :D

It may be surprising that berries are named after red, after all, blueberries, blackberries, black currant, elderberries, gooseberry, etc. are all berries that aren't red, but the culprit is actually semantic broadening. "Synntri" originally only referred to one specific red type of berry, but now it's come to mean just "berry" in general.

Example sentence:

Aera Gerðrúgða spaegän rägða synntrin synnin äða glygðin.

be.F.ATEM Gerðrúgða gather-ABL a_lot berry-PL.GEN red-PL.GEN and yellow-PL.GEN

Gerðrúgða has gathered a lot of red and yellow berries.

In my YouTube video, I have a bunch of extra babbling about Gerðrúgða and her name, but that's not exactly relevant to the word "synn," so I'll spare you of that here :D

[kolic]

Lexember 15th 2025 : Gart

/gɑrt/ [gɑrt] adjective

Favourite

15 is one of my favourite numbers, so I decided to make up a word for favourite for the 15th. Ironically, today was one of my absolute LEAST favourite Lexembers to record for YouTube, I was very frustrated with the acoustics (even tied to hang a pelmet across the room over a closet and a bookshelf facing each other, and hang a curtain from it to dampen the echo. this did not help) and I ended up drawing the VERY MINIMUM and leaving most of the work up to the titles I added in post. In short today was NOT a good day for lexember, but. At least I used it to explain the Kolic degrees of comparisons, so the word for "least favourite" was also included. I have a slight feeling this post is becoming incoherent

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Lexember 25th 2025 : Mitta

/mɪt.tɑ/ [mɪʰtɑ] noun, feminine

Shoe, Boot

This word is present in one Kolic idiom whose concept I've had for.. i think a year? but yea i've only now actually made the words to actually make it.

The idiom is "bjórar mitti irni" - "to wet one's boots." It alludes to frequented pathways that often form a slippery icy layer. One might choose to walk on the ice, taking the riskier, but more convenient path, or walk next to the path and wet their boots, taking the safer, but less convenient path. There's another idiom paired with this one - "tannar rikknäära," meaning "walk on the ice."

Example sentence:

Bjóðra gär mitti ríni äða tannra lajä sínna írijä.

wet-FUT-F 1SG shoe-PL.ACC 1SG.POSS-PL.ACC and go-FUT-F there-LAT tell-BEN 3SG.N-LAT

I'll wet my boots and go there to tell them.

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Lexember 24th 2025 : Býrstrigð

/biːʃ.trɪːð/ [biːʃtɾɪːð] noun, neuter

Býrstrigð

or like. something like gingerbread. but it's not exactly gingerbread. but it's something like gingerbread more or less

Look, it's a traditional Kolic dessert that's seasoned with býrs /biːʃ/, which is a root used as seasoning. Is býrs just ginger? Probably not. Do I know what it is? Definitely not. Does it have a real-world equivalent? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't have very much to say, but I can at least show you the gingerbreads I decorated yesterday. For eleven hours. I went to bed at 7:30 AM

Example sentence:

Aera gär ínnän jäínna jaegära kartära þýmrä býrstrigði.

be.F.ATEM 1SG stay-ABL awake.F night-PERL whole-PERL make-INE býrstrigð-PL.ACC

I stayed up all night making býrstrigði.

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Lexember 23rd 2025 : Kärra

/kar.rɑ/ [karːɑ] noun, feminine

Wood

Wood is obviously very important for the Kolic. They use it to build houses and funiture, to burn as fuel, and to get wood tar, which they use for many purposes, such as coating their ships, walls, and roofs to make them waterproof (which gives them their signature black appearance), they use it in soaps and medicines, and even as seasoning and flavouring in dishes and desserts.

Example sentence:

Jätta aera gär sparrän kärrän daegðënin rínënin.

today be.F.ATEM 1SG cut-ABL wood-GEN father-COM 1SG.POSS-F.COM

Today I cut some wood with my dad.

I'm not sure if I talked about the partitive function of the genitive-partitive case here, but in short, when an action is performed on only a part of the direct object (for example if you cut wood, but not all the wood you have to cut in the end, or if you ate soup, but left some), you put the direct object in the genitive-partitive case (often called just "genitive" for simplicity).