Melì'u amip: Ìpxa sì Säzärìp

[Taronyu]

I have two new words to announce.

säzärìp: n. pa'li lead, rein (RL, PF)




ìpxa: n. fern (RL, PF)




Säzärìp comes from a suggestion I made for the lead, back when I was trying to change the ASG words into something legal. Ìpxa, though, has a much more cool history. See here:

Thinking about it more, I like that form because it illustrates a diachronic phonetic change we haven't yet seen: ay à a . (This is assuming the origin of the word involved hì'i + pxay, which seems reasonable, given the "small" and "many" qualities of ferns that you mentioned, Prrton.)

ay à a ( or a: ), including in word-final position, is attested in many languages. In certain kinds of Southern American English, for example, you have "I" and "my" pronounced "ah" and "mah" respectively. And my paternal grandmother, in her non-standard Galician Yiddish, pronounced the standard word [haynt] 'today' as [ha:nt].

Plus ìpxa preserves the beer/phonetics origin more clearly than ìpxay.

As far as the etymology for fern goes, it comes from two things: the IPA, which is the International Phonetics Alphabet (I use it in the Dictionary.) The other etyma is a beer:



Pawl and I both had an IPA draught of this - IPA stands for India Pale Ale. And there you have it. I had said earlier that I like ejectives, and that I wanted a word for 'fern', and that it ought to start with 'ì' because so little words do. When Pawl heard me order a drink, the word was suggested. Best etymology ever.

[Nyx]

Nice! xD That makes much more sense than it coming from hì'i and pxay  

(You wrote "ìpxay" right before your quote though)

[Taronyu]

Good catch. Oe lu skxawng! Fixed.

[Le'eylan]

ìpxa lu yawne oer. Tsatsenget tsalì'ut a ìpxa nolokx lu yawne oer nìteng..

[Tirea Aean]

WIN

nì'i'a a word for FERN...AND it has such an awesome etymology. NICE.

[Ngawng]

Best. Etymology. Evar.  <3

[Kì'eyawn]

Txantsan!  Lì'ul alu ìpxa Prrtonit 'eykayefatsu nitram nìtxan  

Edit:  Leykolatem kxeyeyit ahì'i.  Irayo, ma Kemaweyan.

[Kemaweyan]

Irayo, ma Taronyu

Ma Kì'eyawn, nga namew pamrel sivi san lì'ul sìk, kefyak?

[Kì'eyawn]

Ma Kì'eyawn, nga namew pamrel sivi san lì'ul sìk, kefyak?

Srane, hìtxoa.  Ke fparmängìl oe...  Tsati leykìyatem oel.

[omängum fra'uti]

WIN

nì'i'a a word for FERN...AND it has such an awesome etymology. NICE.

Srak tsun fko sivar lì'ut alu nì'i'a nìtsafya?

[Tirea Aean]

WIN

nì'i'a a word for FERN...AND it has such an awesome etymology. NICE.

Srak tsun fko sivar lì'ut alu nì'i'a nìtsafya?

srake tsun fko sivar lì'ut alu nìtsafya tsafya? HRH

[`Eylan Ayfalulukanä]

Txantsan nang Both terms are really cool. I like the ä sound. And as a student of biology, I appreciate it any time we get new botanical/zoological terms.

It makes me wonder though, if there aren't plant types on Pandora that cannot be properly described with our terms for plants (a fern is something very specific). Specifically, I wonder if there is anything similar there to an `Rrta 'orchid'.

[omängum fra'uti]

WIN

nì'i'a a word for FERN...AND it has such an awesome etymology. NICE.

Srak tsun fko sivar lì'ut alu nì'i'a nìtsafya?

srake tsun fko sivar lì'ut alu nìtsafya tsafya? HRH

Tsa'u ke lu oeyä tìpawm...

Lì'u alu nì'i'a ke ke lam eyawr oeru....  Ngeyä rel lu nì'ìnglìsì finally, slä fpìl oel futa tsalì'u nì'ìnglìsì slu conclusively.  Ngal tsole'a tìsarit aketeng srak?

[Carborundum]

WIN

nì'i'a a word for FERN...AND it has such an awesome etymology. NICE.

Srak tsun fko sivar lì'ut alu nì'i'a nìtsafya?

srake tsun fko sivar lì'ut alu nìtsafya tsafya? HRH

Tsa'u ke lu oeyä tìpawm...

Lì'u alu nì'i'a ke ke lam eyawr oeru....  Ngeyä rel lu nì'ìnglìsì finally, slä fpìl oel futa tsalì'u nì'ìnglìsì slu conclusively.  Ngal tsole'a tìsarit aketeng srak?

http://naviteri.org/2010/07/vocabulary-update/

Oeri nì'i'a tsyokx zoslolu. 'My hand is finally healed.'

[omängum fra'uti]

Irayo, tsatìkenongit oel nìlmew.

[Taronyu]

Specifically, I wonder if there is anything similar there to an `Rrta 'orchid'.

Pseudocenia Equina
Pandorchidus Insectoralis

[`Eylan Ayfalulukanä]

Specifically, I wonder if there is anything similar there to an `Rrta 'orchid'.

Pseudocenia Equina
Pandorchidus Insectoralis

Thank you for those links. I don't believe I have seen this information before.
What makes an orchid an orchid isn't so much specialized pollination by a specific pollinator as does certain structures in the flower that are common to all orchids, no matter how different their flowers are. Although they are the largest family of plants, orchids are technically members of the lily superfamily. And although there are orchids designed to be pollinated by just one animal (almost all insects), many orchids can be pollinated by a wide variety of animals. We see pseudocenia_equina in the film, and pa`li drinking from them. They are almost certainly not orchids. There is no picture of pandorchidus_insectoralis shown, but the description strongly suggests it could be a type of orchid in the sense we sawtute understand them.