amíu - "Schadenfreude" and "sailor"

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Two icons today. I was already working on nautical terminology when darkkitten1 asked for "sailor", so I thought I'd go ahead and post it with "Schadenfreude".

At the request of caesia390:

weí júuálaor anngeu "Schadenfreude"

X-SAMPA: [wE_(drop)i juUal{O_(drop)r\ {nNEU_(drop) ]

"Schadenfreude" is a German word meaning "shameful joy" -- that is, pleasure taken in the misfortune of others.

weí

Pleasure. The written character is a pictogram of a person with upraised arms. The short double lines usually indicate a bright object in Amíu writing, and are used metaphorically here.

júuálaor

júu Pain. Originally a pictogram of a person with their head down.

-ál Third person posessive marker. The written form is a variation on the ordinary third person marker.

-aor Second person present marker. So júuál is in the second person.

anngeu

This is the verb.

a- Restrictive relative clause marker.

n- Second person actor marker. The actor (subject) of this verb must therefore be júuálaor.

nge To give (nondeliberate).

-0 (that is to say, nothing at all -- a zero morph). Marks a first person target (indirect object). Though nothing is pronounced at this point, the first person character is still included in the written form. Amíu doesn't have all that many "silent letters", but this is one.

-u Object-head relative clause marker. This must refer to the only noun left: weí.

So. The whole phrase is "pleasure which his pain gives to me".

pleasure   pain.3pos.2   REL.2.give.1.OBJ-HEAD

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And, at the request of darkkitten1:

mréalyn "sailor"

X-SAMPA: [ mr\e{ly_(drop)n ]

This is a simple derivation from réal "sailboat". The character "person" indicates the noun circumfix m-yn "one who uses ___".

The Lúen are rather more into sailing than psychology, so darkkitten1's request was much easier and simpler to express than caesia390's. :)

Next up is "philologist" for darthfox. As always, requests for icons, explanations, or just to see something written, will be honored.

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