amiu - "fish wish" and a map

For _hannelore:

meer meej

X-SAMPA /mE:_(falling)r\ mE:j/


meer

(Saltwater) fish. Pictogram.

meej

Wish. The phonetic is meer, and the determinative is "nose".


This is a strange case, as the phonetic+determinative works in English as well as in Amiu. I didn't realize this until after the fact; I'd been using the gloss "desire" for meej, but "wish" is equally good.

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The Luen people live on a planet not unlike our own, most of which is uncharted at the time contemporary with the language I've been describing. Their stories say that they came across the eastern plains to make their home between jee Néong (the Range of Dawn) and ruiw (the Gulf). They call this country jingnong (our land).

( Map of Jingnong )

This is a preliminary map; I haven't worked out all the place-names yet.

A point of interest is Gold Lake -- called so by the Bay people whose dialect I am describing, and who primarily associate the Lake people with the minerals they sift from their waters. The Lake people themselves are more concerned with the lake's status as a gateway to and from the unliving world, and call it jing láer "the land's womb". (The small peninsula on the east side of the lake is nicknamed rónné "the big clit".)

amiu - "fish wish" and a map

For _hannelore:

meer meej

X-SAMPA /mE:_(falling)r\ mE:j/


meer

(Saltwater) fish. Pictogram.

meej

Wish. The phonetic is meer, and the determinative is "nose".


This is a strange case, as the phonetic+determinative works in English as well as in Amiu. I didn't realize this until after the fact; I'd been using the gloss "desire" for meej, but "wish" is equally good.

seifergrrl is next in the icon queue. Still room at the end of the line.

*

The Luen people live on a planet not unlike our own, most of which is uncharted at the time contemporary with the language I've been describing. Their stories say that they came across the eastern plains to make their home between jee Néong (the Range of Dawn) and ruiw (the Gulf). They call this country jingnong (our land).

( Map of Jingnong )

This is a preliminary map; I haven't worked out all the place-names yet.

A point of interest is Gold Lake -- called so by the Bay people whose dialect I am describing, and who primarily associate the Lake people with the minerals they sift from their waters. The Lake people themselves are more concerned with the lake's status as a gateway to and from the unliving world, and call it jing láer "the land's womb". (The small peninsula on the east side of the lake is nicknamed rónné "the big clit".)