#lexember 2021

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16m Lexembr

cair bel /ker bɛl/ [keː bɛw] (of weather) to be fine out, for the conditions outside to be pleasant, warm and sunny; (by extension, of a scene or scenario) to be going well, to turn out well, for people to be getting along or plans to be proceeding apace; (of people) to be content, satisfied or unconcerned, to take no issue; (by extension, pejoratively) to content oneself, to be oblivious to problems and think incorrectly that nothing is lacking or wrong

(An impersonal construction, only taking an optional dative experiencer.)

Etymology: literally "to happen beautiful", formed by analogy to many other uses of impersonal cair: for weather, as in cay ploy/sol "it's raining/sunny"; for events, as in cay je Lun "it's Monday"; and for periods, as in cay set hour "it's been seven hours".

The adjective bel "beautiful" descends uncomplicatedly from Latin bellus "pleasant, charming". The verb cair "to fall, to happen" is a somewhat hybridised descendant from Latin cadĕre "to fall, die, suit, happen" with a Vulgar form cadēre which exhibits a shift in conjugation.

Il amn queldar tras port candon cay bel. /ɪl ˈa.mn̩ kwɛlˈdar traz pɔrt kanˈdɔn ke bɛl/ [ɪˈla.mɐŋ kwɪwˈdɑː tʀaz ˈpɔːt kɐnˈdɔn ke bɛw] 3p like-3p dine-inf through door whenever fall-s beautiful They like to dine outside when it's fine out.

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page taken from the appendices of Jout Boral a Toð Cainç "Borlish Constructions for All Occasions", a popular tourist's phrasebook for the Borlish language published in 1987 by the Ausbagn Outland Edifice.

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Trying to do ~28 words a day because that's how many Siren needs to hit 10k by the new year..

ανιιλίs [ɐni:ɭɪs] verb, to serenade, from ανα "romantic love" + χιλίs "to sing" μαρκίs [mɐɻkɪs] verb, to caress, μαρκα "gentle" with a verb ending tacked on -- noun form μαργνα νίκυελίs [nɪkweɭɪs] verb, to kiss with tongue, νίκε "tongue" + υελίs "to kiss"-- noun form νίκυελ χαλίνα [χɐɭɪnə] noun, a pet name meaning 'adored one,' pretty old-fashioned and dramatic, if someone uses it outside of poetry or maybe their wedding day it'd be weird. τέρίνα [tɛɻɪnə] noun, (non-romantic) loved one, from τέρίs "to love" τέκαγzέs [tɛkɐgzɛs] verb, to infatuate, to bewitch, from καγίzα "magic spell" -- related: τέκαγzελ noun, infatuation and τέκαγzένα adjective, infatuated sέωρετέ [sɛvɻetɛ] adjective, compassionate, from sέωρετα "compassion" sέκορνα [sɛkoɻnə] noun, empathy, from κορίs "to feel (emotion)" or κορνα "feeling" and prefix sέ- often seen in verbs denoting companionship -- related: sέκορνέ adjective, empathetic and sέκορνίs verb, empathise sέταίs [sɛtɐɪs] verb, to confide, from prefix sέ- and ται "blood"* --related: sέταίνα noun, confidant ταχρίs [tɐχɻɪs] verb, to yearn,probably related to PIE dáḱru -- related: ταχρίνα noun, yearning sεύίs [sejɪs] verb, to support a fictional relationship between two characters, sεύα "together" with a verb ending -- related: sεύίνα noun, relationship between two characters μπελίs [beɭɪs] verb, to nurture, from μπέλα "base, foundation" -- related: μπελύα noun, nurturer, μπελίνα adjective, nurtured and μπελίsτιλ adjective, nurturing ροοsίs [ɻo:sɪs] verb, to snuggle, likely related to τροsα "comfort" sέωεδύα [sɛvedjɐ] noun, roommate -- Yο τεsρ, νι νε sέωεδύατ!

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4m Lexembr

coronc /koˈrɔnk/ [kʊˈʀɔŋk] pretender, claimant to a throne; impostor, fraud, person under a false identity or professing false qualifications; hypocrite, person whose words and deeds diverge

Etymology: uncertain, but old—the first meaning of "claimant" is attested from the ninth century during the ascendancy of Dane Borland. One theory proposes a connection with coroun "crown, kingship" < Latin corōna "garland, wreath, crown", perhaps via a diminutive *corōnucula, although the accent being on the second syllable is hard to explain (we would expect coronoil). Another links it to the Dane rule and suggests dissimilation from earlier *conong < Norse konungr "king".

Cascif parmist vos coronc remainn e lou blasmaust noc? /kaˈxɪf parˈmɪst vo koˈrɔnk reˈme.nn̩ e lu blaˈsmost nɔk/ [kɐˈçɪf pɐːˈmɪst vo kʊˈʀɔŋk ʀɪˈme.nɐn e lu blɐˈzmost nɔk] why allow.pst-2p 2p pretender stay-3p and 3p condemn neg Why did you permit pretenders to remain without censure?

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excerpt from Shepherds of Hambrick: the Small History of Dane Borland, a 2008 book intended for the lay audience and published by Cordin Editions (with the original Borlish title being Acr a Sauð Vellig "Acres of Docile Ewes"). Its author, Sconet Ydreç, was commissioned to write the text by her institution, the department for Concurrence History at the New School in Vithor, where she specialised in the early tenth century.

…to be distracted by king-in-exile Joðeg and his wife the queen Brenna of Barrow, no matter how intriguing their exploits in Sothbar and latterly overseas in Kent, nor how precious the Brethin copies of Brenna's correspondence with her cousin King Roderick.

What, for example, can we make of the influx of Norse vocabulary in the field of archery from the early ninth century? We see <bers> "target, quarry" in a 834 N parabolic addendum from the Marvil chronicle; soon after are <boger> "archer", <arn> "fletch" and <scutar> "shoot" attested also. What is clear is that the bow and arrow were commonplace weapons available to any freeman in the Dane lands; consider the legend of Fithrischelve, who was said to have to outwitted the far-seer Quasir by striking him with an arrow fired from four thousand paces, beyond even his sight.

Techniques in bowmaking must also have spread rapidly throughout the Dane territories, or at least bows obtained in raids east of Idel made their way expediently westward. Recent unearthings at the Voglat trove include a sapwood bow with carvings some scholars have connected to Mojarick languages, but…

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3m Lexembr

tramou /traˈmu/ [tʀɐ.mu] line, line segment (considered with a specified direction), vector; displacement, difference between two positions; shortfall, insufficiency, extent to which a quota is not met

Etymology: Middle Boral, a jargon borrowing from Middle Cambrick [Welsh] tramωi "movement, transit, course", used (in the form of a Latinised <trāmovis>, as though related to a verb *trāmoveō "I move across") in the fifteenth-century mathematical text Algorisma Geometrica, a treatise on how to perform numerical operations such as addition on geometric objects. The word tramωi itself must derive from Classical British elements trās- "across, completely" and mei- "to go" (see also Kernish tarvoi "carriage").

Tramou aun tagl eð asmuth y dou.

/traˈmu on tɛjl ɛθ azˈmɪθ i du/

[tʀɐˈmu on tɛj‿le‿ðɐzˈmɪθ iˈdu]

vector have-3p length and direction def two

A vector has both size and direction.

Cal porra balanç intermanir ag tramou ny porçonment?

/kal poˈra baˈlants ɪnˌtɛr.maˈnɪr ɛj traˈmu ni ˌpɔr.tsɔnˈmɛnt/

[kaw pʊˈʀɑ bɐˈlants ɪnˌtɛː.mɐˈnɪː‿ʀɛj tʀɐˈmu ni ˌpɔː.dzʊmˈmɛnt]

what can-fut recompense constitute-inf to.def shortfall in.def allocation

How will we make up for the budget shortfall?

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taken from the supplementary historical notes for the 1849 quire Spheric Reckoning: Usage of the Modern Augrim, a mathematician's reference for performing spherical trigonometry (with application to celestial and terrestrial navigation). The book was published by the d'Aumesty Tellard Guild in Tommarth as part of the preparation for a decade-long project to create as accurate a map of the world as possible.

…the touching places of a given ray and our reference sphere.

The question of precisely who introduced the sun-centred model of the local cosmos to Rome has been long debated; almost all that can be said for certain is that by summer 1552 it was a conversation topic in fora across the city. We can perhaps assume that the sculptor Lorenzo dell'Acchedia was inspired to make his Meccanismi di Helio via his close friend Martèl fi Bacchero, mathematician at the library of Saint Jerome, who was known to frequent the public debates.

One theory traces the arrival of these ideas from the east to a congeries of Morrack scholars returning from a stint in the third Hicma Academy, and in particular a printing found in Tarragon archives—a copy of an addendum to ibn Halwa's 1472 work On the Extent of the Seas (itself notable for being one of the last detailed descriptions of the world's geography before knowledge of the Novomund became widespread).

In any case, it is worth remembering that all models are only approximations. The idea that the gyres [orbits] of the planets might not be (based on; the spectre of gyre sums raises its head once more) circular paths had still not occurred to…

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20m Lexembr

copros /koˈprɔz/ [kʊˈpʀɔz] sulphate, vitriol, ionic compound containing the anion SO₄²⁻; (historical) iron(II) sulphate, green vitriol, the compound with chemical formula FeSO₄

compare cohol /koˈhɔl/ [kʊˈxɔw] sulphide, ionic compound containing the anion S²⁻

Etymology: attested in various European languages from the thirteenth century, adapted from Mediæval Latin cuperosa et al. "metal sulphate, especially copper sulphate", short for aqua cuprosa "water of copper". Originally referring in particular to blue vitriol/copper sulphate, by the Revitalist period it was in most common use for green vitriol/iron sulphate.

Vitriol scencað sur calamin nastisc copros a jast. /ˌvi.triˈɔl xɛnˈkaθ sɪr ˌka.laˈmɪn naˈstɪx koˈprɔz a ʒast/ [ˌvi.tʀɪˈjɔl çɪŋˈkah sɪː ˌka.lɐˈmɪn nɐˈstɪç kʊˈpʀɔz ɐ ˈʒast] vitriol pour-ptcp.pst on calamine bear-s.prs sulphate to zinc Pouring vitriol on calamine produces jast's cuprose. (Sulphuric acid and zinc oxide make zinc sulphate.)

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cutting from the pages of the 18th of July 1971 edition of Niacer (literally "relating to nests" but here used colloquially to refer to the home), a monthly Sunday magazine sold across Borland whose focus is news and advice concerning household matters, from gardening tips and tricks to recent advances in refrigeration.

…light of recent developments in Mashick I can only advise that you stock up on dried mause and amback [banana and mango] to prepare for the veritable avalanche of sweetbreads and spice stews you will need to cook for so many August picnic sorties.

Yours, Morrig Agat

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PAX, CHANDLER SOAPS RECALLED

Seven soap and washing-oil products have been removed from shop shelves after customers have reported severe rashes after use. The products (for a full list see insert) include bars form the well-known cleaningware companies Pax and Chandler.

Early reports suggest that the culprit may be an impure batch of natre's laurick cuprose [sodium lauryl sulphate], a foaming substance widely added to soap gels and bars. Efforts to trace the source of the contamination are as yet inconclusive, though the lack of any similar cases reported in the rest of Libya (from where Borland imports the majority of these alchemical products for detaxion)'s export market suggests that the issue may lie with the refining mills at Haldanvion.

This paper's inquiries with Rojanasocce Manufactory and the Ministry of Health have so far been met with stonewalling and deflection; we will turn to the in tesquo investigations of our own collocker Sr Johan pamfey, who…

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9m Lexembr

detaxion /ˌde.takˈsjɔn/ synthesis, amalgamation, combination, creation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things; transmutation, transfiguration, modification, affecting the structure or composition of a substance or work; (chemical) reaction, conversion, process by which substances are changed into others through combination and decomposition

Etymology: borrowed into Boral in the late sixteenth century from Scholastic Latin dētaxiō "chemical reaction", popular variant of dētactiō by analogy with nouns such as connexiō "junction". This dētactiō is a nominalisation of verb dētingō "I affect, cause to undergo a transformation or reaction", from tangō "I touch, arrive at, affect". The alchemical sense is original; extension to other contexts is in evidence by the time of the Long Peace.

Comburnç no's for detaxion con ignifex magn hastous. /kɔmˈbɪ.rn̩ts noz fɔr ˌde.takˈsjɔn kɔn ˌaj.niˈfɛks mɛjn hasˈtuz/ [kʊmˈbɪːnts noz fɔː ˌde.tɐkˈsjɔn kɔn ˌaj.nɪˈfɛks mɛjn hɐˈstuz] burn-nmlz neg=be.3s only synthesis with oxygen very fast Burning is just a very fast reaction with oxygen.

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excerpt from Albick Medicine in the Workshop Decades, Part V: Alchemick Detaxion, one of the volumes in a series released by the Conster Health Edifice and funded by the anthracite administration's Ministry for Health. This volume was written by Dr Harold Westcamp and published in 1994, with additions by his deixist collaborator Marcathow Cox.

…use copper in their fecundation projects, showing a surprisingly-modern understanding of the unity of zoia [micro-organisms] and edifice life (that is, comprehending that substances noxious to the one were apt to have a similar effect on the other.

But however helpful the counter-zoic properties of copper (as well as the less-effective jast [zinc] and silver), truly safe handiwork could not be achieved without liquid diffruction. Wine and other fermented drinks had been noted as a preventative of infection since the medieval period, and the wider availability of distilled lembick [ethanol] in the sixteenth century allowed Arnoutszen to recommend it in his great treatise.

The advances of the Long Peace led to the discovery of yet more effective solutions. The saltpetre mills (built to provide a source of the gunpowder component in the absence of natural deposits) of Zampanagar and neighbouring Tacday Ancore [1] made use of sea wrack as a raw ingredient. In 1778, according to the reports of the overseer at the Contare mills, a purplish vapour was seen rising from disposal vats in which the waste was treated with vitriol. Named for the colour of the crystalline residue formed as the element accumulated, news of the discovery of tin-sow (literally "indigo element") travelled west over the next decade, and writers in Latin eventually settled on the name janthine, from the…

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[1] polities in South East Asia, roughly coterminous with southern Vietnam and Cambodia.

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23m Lexembr

colombar /ˌko.lɔmˈbar/ [ˌko.lʊmˈbɑː] to beeline, to travel directly while ignoring established or more easily-traversed routes; to shortcut, skimp, cut corners, to gain a competitive or efficiency advantage especially by taking inappropriate or unsafe measures

also colombant /ˌko.lɔmˈbant/ directly, as the crow flies

Etymology: first as the participial adjective in Middle Boral colombant "in a straight line", derived from noun colomp "pigeon, dove" (modern colom "dove"), presumably in reference to the flight of homing pigeons. The word colom derives uncomplicatedly from Latin columba “dove, pigeon”. The verb per se is attested from the end of the eighteenth century, with the somewhat negative connotations arising in the following decades.

Y fraðr colombaurn dou vars y magler. /i ˈfra.ðr̩ ˌko.lɔmˈbo.rn̩ du varz i mɛjˈlɛr/ [i ˈfʀa.ðɐ ˌko.lʊmˈboːn du vɑːz i mɪjˈlɛː] def brother beeline-pst.3p two toward def butcher The two brothers went straight to the butcher's.

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excerpt taken from the scholastic quire The Communication Toolset, a 1951 work written (originally in Mozara Spanish [1] as El Herramente de Communicazón) by author Joan Bensaíd through the printing house Quaterno Theorético a Córdoba.

…the potential to significantly accelerate the time to send a missive long distances. But in some cases the distance need not have been particularly great—we can consider the related cases of estuaries and straits.

For example, the towns of Nausçod on Borland and Lagcóch (at this time officially Laicouche in French Guillenne) [2], being only 13 miles apart as the crow flies and the former lying atop a steep promontory, are often within clear view of each other. Before the steeplemesh, to send a letter from the one to the other would require riding to the port at Axbane and taking a ferry, likely to Heller on the mainland and then across again to Texel.

After the air-steeples connected the strait (the intermediate baskets only being necessary in conditions of weakened visibility; on clear days the sighting could be accomplished directly via a farseer) in the latter years of the 1830s, no such diversion was necessary, and one could send a letter via the post and receive a reply in less…

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[1] a language spoken primarily in Andalus but also in neighbouring polities and in immigrant/staddenzen [3] populations worldwide.

[2] roughly corresponding to the Dutch village of De Koog on the island of Texel.

[3] native of one of the polities that grew from early trading posts along the coasts of Cappatia and Africa.

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11m Lexembr

kevlar /keˈvlar/ [kɪˈvlɑː] robbery, burglary, theft, the act of acquiring property illegally; heist, an instance of robbery, especially from an institution such as a bank, museum or other secure stronghold; (by extension) scheme, plot, a complex plan to conduct a likely-illegal activity; (archaic cant or modern humorous, non-finite forms only) to rob, burgle, thieve, to undertake a heist

Also romanç kevlar | heist story, tale in which a heist is central to the plot, especially considered as a subgenre of masquira novels and films

Etymology: disputed. The noun first definite attestation in writing is in the 1793 work An Enumeration of Thieves' Cant (originally in Boral as Enombr a Vanagl Saccacer), describing the slang of the Damvath underworld. Originally referring to any robbery, the narrower sense has been strengthened by its association to fiction; the twentieth century saw kevlar borrowed into many languages to refer to the genre of stories—see English kevler romance, for example.

Possible antedatings to Pentrose/Axbane slang have led some to conjecture a connection to a Welsh *cafelat "act of obtaining", although the phonetic implausibility (the Welsh would have penultimate stress) and the utter lack of outside evidence for this derivative of verb cafel "to get, be given" tally against it. Furthermore, if the intriguing reference to vol quȝralle "quiral (?) theft" in a fourteenth-century record of Jeluðrou court proceedings is an ancestor, the period (before substantial Welsh immigration to the cities of southern Borland) and the location (a minor northern town) rule this theory out definitively.

Unfortunately, the other options are just as easily discarded. Backslang—the practice of generating slang by saying words backwards—from a Germanic cognate of "robbing" (most often suggested is Frisian raovig, but even this is tenuous) is a popular but ultimately unworkable theory. Saxon cüble "luggage, baggage" or the derivation cübler "footman, male servant, especially one tasked with carrying possessions around" also do not quite harmonise with the timeline and the semantics.

Loy paregl ny cour es ajoutað de bon romanç kevlar. /lɔj paˈrijl ni kur ɛz ˌa.ʒuˈtaθ de bɔn roˈmants keˈvlar/ [lɔj pɐˈʀi.jʊ ni ˈkʊː‿ʀɪz ˌa.ʒʊˈtah dɪ ˈbɔn ʀʊˈmans kɪˈvlɑː] place same in=def heart be.3s gratify-ptcp.pst from good story heist The same part of the heart delights in a good heist story.

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paragraphs excerpted in translation from the Borland vicine mesh [1] distributed library page for masquira romance, as it stood in February 2021 N. Much of it is lifted from books out of withholding, such as fi Javeria's Literary Developments of the Nineteenth Century and Mulcrive's Epics by Steeplepost: the Birth of Masquira in British Mendeva.

…familiar with the quintessentially Albick folk tales of the farmer duke and his masked band.

Although these earlier examples illustrate the timelessness of some of masquira's central tropes (most vitally the eponyous masks!), we do not see the emergence of a distinct genre until the nineteenth century, with the publication in 1860 Portugal of Ezio Carvallo's trevold Tejan de Masquira ou Jalico (released in Boral as Cuscon Reðr Cognit [2], translated by Anscon Polgat). It was Carvallo's works—this first book being only the first in a dozen-strong series—which introduced many of the essential properties of a masquira tale, and first presented them together as a coherent whole.

For example, Jalico almost singlehandedly creates the conceit of the kevler [heist] in which our protagonist must obtain a valuable item by means of a complicated scheme involving trickery and deception; note that the word itself would not be applied to the trope for some time, as it is of Borlish origin. Often an item of jewellery, masquira is often said to run parallel to the older Cathayan tradition of tapsue (magpie) tales. We can also connect the two traditions by their adoption by tovarick…

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[1] A portion of the global mesh [Internet], usually qualified with a geographical term. [2] And for example in Kentish as We Arive in Unwemmed [immaculate] Clothes.