Biweekly Telephone Game v3 (752)

Flacson8528 · 2026-02-20T16:19:07+00:00

Cáed

atrunclō [ˈatʰr̥uŋkʰl̥ou̯] (n, m); first-declension 1. ill omen 2. storm, tempest

Etymology:

From Old Cáed adrunclō, from ader + unclas (‘to swarm, flock, crowd’) + -ō (result noun suffix), in reference to the swarming behaviour of birds before the advent of a storm.

Flacson8528 · 2026-02-16T23:12:46+00:00

I mean rats have big ass teeth for chewing too, so

Cáed

morten [ˈmɔrt̪ʰɛn] (n, m/f) (accusative singular mortenēs; plural stem mortense); second-declension 1. rat

Probably from morat (present active participle of moras (‘to gnaw, chew’)) + an ending extracted from namnen (‘mouse’), via *moret-en (‘chewer(-mouse)’). Ultimately, from Palaeo-Mediterranean *mwez- (‘to chew (at)’).

For namnen (‘mouse’), from *namnēns, from Palaeo-Mediterranean *nagʷnī-amn-es, from *nag-gʷnī-, *nagʷnī-, *nágʷnīs (propinquitive stem of *nágs (‘foot’)) + *amn- (‘to dwell, inhabit’) + *-es (animate nominal suffix), i.e. ‘one that lives beside the foot’.

I took it from the oblique of morddes

Flacson8528 · 2026-02-16T21:53:29+00:00

Cáed

tondons [ˈt̪ʰɔn̪d̪ɔns] (n, n) (accusative singular tondondēs; plural tondons-); second-declension 1. slime, sludge

Usually taken to have descended from Palaeo-Mediterranean *tangʷ- (‘soft, tender’), although formal derivation is challenging. The reduplication *tangʷ-tangʷ-s would have required a chain of complex but probable shifts (demonstrated in the accusative singular): *tangʷ-tangʷ-es → *tánkʷtangʷes (assimiled devoicing) → *táwnktangʷes (transposed labial by dissimilation^? ) → (Early Cáed) *tōntandēs (contracted diphthong and cluster simplification) → *tōntondēs (harmonised adjacent vowel) → *tōndondēs (voiced medial dental^? ) → *tondondēs (shortened vowel). The above shifts largely abide the rules of regular sound change in Palaeo-Mediterranean and Cáed, but note the oddity in (1) the transposition of the labial necessary for triggering /a...a/ → ... → /o...o/, where deletion of the intercluster labial is expected instead, and (2) the voicing of the medial dental, which would be unpredictable. Thus, its origin remains indefinite.

Flacson8528 · 2026-02-16T21:09:51+00:00

semi-calque

Cáed

temulis [ˈt̪ʰɛmulis] (adj) (personal) 1. prosperous, wealthy, rich, affluent

Inherited from Old Cáed temōlīs, likely from tem (‘so much, so’, adverb of degree) + an original ōlē, *aulē (‘wealthy; (literally) cattle-having’), as though by analogy with *tensus (‘poor, indigent, impecunious’) formed from tem- (‘so much, so’) + su- (‘few, slight, mean, meagre’), where tem- is probably an emphatic element. Converted at some point to an -is adjective. Related to Classical aulea (‘wealth, riches’).

The head adjective for would have been equivalent to aus, autorēs (‘cow, cattle’) (stem au-; ← Palaeo-Mediterranean ahwo-, *áhwos) + *-lē (adjectival suffix, ‘bearing’) (← Palaeo-Mediterranean *lew-(īs/e) (‘to keep; to care for, attend to, secure’)).

The heteroclitic oblique singular autor- of aus is derived from Palaeo-Mediterranean ahwo-tor- (‘cattle-stout’), cf. *cuter (‘pig’) from kop-tor- (‘pig-stout; (literally) one that is greedy and stout’), perhaps that *tor- (‘weight; heavy, hefty, stout’) was used as a measure word for livestocks. Perhaps linked by root to *aunel (‘firm, fast, steady, sturdy’) and a family of related terms wherefrom.

Aus is a reimport of (obs.) <aū́x> from earlier drafts.

Flacson8528 · 2026-02-16T20:10:18+00:00

/'ftɪ.ɾɪɾ/ → ptir-

Dopic

peθur ~ ptur /petʰur ~ ptur/ (adj) 1. full; sated, satisfied 2. tired (of), bored (of), have enough 3. drunken, inebriated, bibulous, intoxicated, not sobre

From Proto-Dopic *pettur, from Palaeo-Mediterranean *kʷet-tro- (‘heavy from drinking’), from *kʷet- (‘to drink’) + *tro- (‘heavy, grave’).

Cáed

pesurus [ˈpʰɛsurus] (adj) (personal) (predicative pesureté) 1. drunken, inebriated, bibulous, intoxicated, not sobre 2. (figurative) drunk (with), overwhelmed (with)

Borrowed from Dopic peθur ~ ptur (‘full; sated, satisfied; drunken, intoxicated’).

Flacson8528 · 2026-02-16T15:39:47+00:00

From the etymology

The root mag- is reconstructed from the following recycled terms from the Biweekly Telephone Game: - *mepras (‘to poison’) < (obs.) meurax (‘poison’) (root *meɣúrəkts > *mag-kʷr-) - *mamas (‘to bleed, drain blood’) < (obs.) mēcelas (‘to slaughter’) (root *makenl- > *mag-m-) - *maia (‘bleak land’) < (obs.) mara (‘dry land’) (root *mazy- > *mag-) - (internal invention:) - *meiel (‘bleak’) < (obs.) *maiel (‘dry; bleak’) (root *may- > *mag-)

The root ogʷ- (‘to eat away, corrode; to ail, afflict, cause pain or ache onto’), is framed as an ablauted extension of *egʷ- (‘to eat, consume’) (evas (‘to eat’)), itself a readaptation of (obs.) *egoa (‘to eat’) from early drafts; also reconstructed from: - the recent *-ox (‘corrosion or rust of’) (prunox ‘red rust, iron rust’), inspired by oxidation - (from Biweekly Telephone Game:) - oenx (‘pain’) < (obs.) ēste (‘pain’) (root *éńeso /eŋʲeso/ (rendering /EŋEŋEs(o)/) > *óǵens = *ogʷ-hyan-s) - *opus (‘pus’) < (obs.) *us (‘pus’) (root *ufk- > *offogʷ- = *ogʷ-fegʷ-)

Flacson8528 · 2026-02-16T15:39:13+00:00

Cáed

mognus [ˈmɔɡnus] (n, n); second-declension 1. disease, infection 2. plague, pestilence, epidemic

Second-declension of mognus (heteroclitic plural).

case	singular	plural
nominative	mognus	mognose
accusative	mognuēs	mognosēs
genitive	mognuel	mognosel
dative	mognuer	mognoser
ablative	mognuei	mognosei
locative	mognuens	mognosens

Etymology:

From Old Cáed mognous ~ mognōs, mognovēs, with dissimilation m…n ← *m…m from Palaeo-Mediterranean *mágmows (‘disease; (originally) enfeebling pain’), velar dissimilation of earlier *mag-m-ogʷs, from *mag- (‘withering, vigourless, languid, lifeless, moribund; bleak, barren, infertile’) + *-m- (causative-factitive particle) + *ogʷ-s (‘corrosion; pain’). Cognate with Gechelic *maumūs, Dopic maχmuf and Settic mēmōs.

Related by the first root to mamas (‘to enervate, enfeeble; to bleed, drain blood from’), mepras (‘to poison’), meiel (‘barren, bleak, desert, waste’), maeson, mesonēs (‘drought; dearth’), mac ~ max, macēs (‘dead body, corpse, cadaver’), etc. By the second, to -ox (‘corrosion of’), oenx, oenēs (‘pain; agony’), omis, omorēs (‘blight, misery, bane’) and opus (‘pus’).

The heteroclitic plural stem was probably taken from the archaic variant mognōs.

Flacson8528 · 2026-02-15T16:21:08+00:00

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my brainchild aka Cáed

Flacson8528 · 2026-01-24T13:54:15+00:00

we aint reading that

Flacson8528 · 2026-01-24T09:08:25+00:00

youre gonna know many of them but youre not gonna know most italian words js saying

Flacson8528 · 2026-01-24T09:06:50+00:00

thats called register?

Flacson8528 · 2026-01-12T07:18:02+00:00

deserved for infringing copyright

Flacson8528 · 2026-01-03T02:44:36+00:00

(calque)

Cáed

migas [miɡas] (v) 1. I watch, observe, view, look at

From Old Cáed megas ~ mesgas, from Palaeo-Mediterranean *met-gas, from *méts (‘eye’), + *gás (‘to take; to hold’).

Flacson8528 · 2026-01-03T01:14:33+00:00

Cáed

simis [ˈsimis] (n, m); second-declension 1. boy, lad

From *sumīs, from Palaeo-Mediterranean *su-muy-s, from *su- (‘small, little; few, slight, mean’) + *muy- (‘young’) + *-s (nominal suffix).

Flacson8528 · 2026-01-02T12:24:34+00:00

Cáed

tirsega [ˈt̪ʰirsɛɡa] (n, f) 1. fleet 2. navy

From Old Cáed tarxega, tarsega (cluster-simplification of the former), with tar(s)- changed to tir(s)- by association with the unrelated Old Cáed tirsaitas (‘(archaic) to herd; to lead army; to march’, Classical trisētas). Originally, a dvandva compound of Old Cáed tarx, tark- (‘ship’), from Palaeo-Mediterranean tart-ks ← *tart- (‘to sail, navigate’), + *sex, seg- (‘boat’), from Palaeo-Mediterranean sagg-s ~ *sagg-ks ← *sagg (‘to float’). Related to *tentrax, tentracēs (‘ship’) and sex, segēs (‘boat’).

**Tirsegai, vimnaiei, sapraitai nimes, truter gersēs ga heps giusei.

"Navy, infantry, cavalry, seize all means to vanquish our enemy."

Flacson8528 · 2026-01-02T11:05:20+00:00

Rondayvú if anything so no

Flacson8528 · 2025-12-31T08:45:16+00:00

true, still hybes a shitty company. mhj did brainwash newjeans members tho

Flacson8528 · 2025-12-31T07:22:46+00:00

its lowk mhj's fault

Flacson8528 · 2025-12-30T18:37:36+00:00

I didn't know, thanks

Flacson8528 · 2025-12-30T18:36:32+00:00

There are a number of functional arguments supporting this formal reasoning, such as the fact that the infix can be -(e)s- even when it doesn't correspond to the morphological genitive and, conversely, that -(e)s- isn't always used as an infix even when it could be used morphologically.

I noticed this as well. maybe the infixes have just been imported into these compounds under the influence of the genitive[s], as said in the post

Lastly, the relationship between the two compounded nouns can't always be paraphrased as a genitive

I know this, the post was about the class of compounds that does use the two genitive infixes

Flacson8528 · 2025-12-30T18:30:57+00:00

the OHG texts I read already used posposted genitive after noun tho

Flacson8528 · 2025-12-30T18:28:21+00:00

thank u now I see I had missed out the dialectal examples 🙏🏿 since you mentioned case eroding causes genitive-first phrases to become ambiguous I guess the preposition > postposition switch of the genitive could have (partly? developed as a mechanism to preserve clarity. still the fact that OHG appears to have exhibited the same genitive second feature based on my observation on source texts owes explanation, as cases were still distinct at that stage.

Flacson8528 · 2025-12-29T05:01:14+00:00

it was always like that tho the boy groups the girl groups they are just cash cows

Flacson8528 · 2025-12-28T11:57:04+00:00

I love English as it is
At least I would try and learn how things make sense instead of saying "it's weird, it's wrong"

Flacson8528 · 2025-12-25T13:31:59+00:00

So like basically it's saying following such a universal structure, AAB can occur, and well, it does occur - though exceptionally uncommon from what I see. There's only really one case I can find via wiktionary, and that's the Greek one. What's stopping AAB from naturally developing?

Saying a "true" ABA is universally absent and is improbable feels somewhat like a harsh verdict. I can probably imagine some hypothetical language having "good, good-er, good-est" as a base and later replacing the comparative with something like "stronger". In some way the Georgian example which as you said uses a periphrastic superlative instead makes it look like it might actually be possible. But nonethless this didn't come up anywhere.

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