amíu - "philologist" and nautical terms

For darthfox:

RóuN oily Nál "I love words"

X-SAMPA: [ r\`oUn` OIly_(drop) n`al ]

The original request was for "philologist", a difficult concept to paraphrase, but darthfox suggested the etymological origin: philo+logos, love of words.

( explanation of the grammar and written form )

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Also, darkkitten1 asked to see what I'm doing with nautical terminology, which is still very much a work in progress.

( a scanned page from one of my notebooks )

As you can see, a lot of this isn't finalized, and pictograms and ideograms often come before the spoken words are decided on. The left column legend says "draft" and "freeboard", the former being the distance from the waterline to the bottom of the boat (a very important thing to know), and the latter being the distance from the waterline to the gunnels (right, darkkitten1?).

The rest is pretty clear, except for the middle bottom character, defined as "undersea/afterlife/pre-life". The Lúen believe that non-living spirits exist somewhere close to the bottom of the ocean. You could say they're waiting there to be reborn, but that would be about as accurate as saying that the living are waiting to die -- it's one way to look at it, but it doesn't tell the whole story.

Next up for an icon is millefiori. More requests are always welcome, as are any other questions.

amíu - "philologist" and nautical terms

For darthfox:

RóuN oily Nál "I love words"

X-SAMPA: [ r\`oUn` OIly_(drop) n`al ]

The original request was for "philologist", a difficult concept to paraphrase, but darthfox suggested the etymological origin: philo+logos, love of words.

( explanation of the grammar and written form )

*

Also, darkkitten1 asked to see what I'm doing with nautical terminology, which is still very much a work in progress.

( a scanned page from one of my notebooks )

As you can see, a lot of this isn't finalized, and pictograms and ideograms often come before the spoken words are decided on. The left column legend says "draft" and "freeboard", the former being the distance from the waterline to the bottom of the boat (a very important thing to know), and the latter being the distance from the waterline to the gunnels (right, darkkitten1?).

The rest is pretty clear, except for the middle bottom character, defined as "undersea/afterlife/pre-life". The Lúen believe that non-living spirits exist somewhere close to the bottom of the ocean. You could say they're waiting there to be reborn, but that would be about as accurate as saying that the living are waiting to die -- it's one way to look at it, but it doesn't tell the whole story.

Next up for an icon is millefiori. More requests are always welcome, as are any other questions.