Anglic Corpus

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Teach Yourself Anglic

It's easy! Practically the same thing as English... well with a few, minor, changes. Okay a lot of changes. But the word order is the same as our English, so it's mainly just a cipher.

He tel sebunder Echiste. That ship is bound for Echiste.

Maybe it's a little more agglutinative than our English, but the parts are still the same:

/he/ that. Also 'e' would work just fine.
/tel/ ship.
/sebunder/ "is bound for". This is just /se/ is /bund/ bound /er/ for.


The Corpus

Oh yes, we do have some isolated samples of Anglic. And they're canon, too. Well, if you're prepared to make an assumption.

The assumption is that many of the Imperial world names in the Spinward Marches are based on Anglic -- those which are obviously not Vilani or Sylean or perhaps 'archaic' English.

So for instance, here's some words I see that appear to be Anglic. Meanings yet unknown/unassigned. But... they can suggest how words are put together (morphology).

I've assumed vowels where they don't actually exist [in brackets] just for fun.

This is all just for fun. I've always wanted to 'see' what Anglic might look like.

?                                 -[d]ed       
?                                 -[e]ce
?                                 -m[a]
?                                 -n[a]
?                                 -oc
?                                 -rs
?                                 -rt    
?                                 -twe
?                                 -za
?                                 [e]chi    
?                                 ave
?                                 cel
?                                 cipa
?                                 de-
?                                 dino
?                                 ell
?                                 enzi
?                                 fate
?                                 fulac
?                                 ga,-ga    
?                                 gero
?                                 giled
?                                 gine
?                                 jae       
?                                 kege
?                                 keng
?                                 mace
?                                 mar
?                                 nope
?                                 nota
?                                 nute
?                                 pire
?                                 powa
?                                 quar
?                                 ri-
?                                 sek
?                                 some
?                                 t[u]re
?                                 tav
?                                 tion
?                                 tos
?                                 wyp
?                                 zivi
? superlative                     -[e]st    
adverbal                          -a        
anger                             chole     
annoy, annoying                   on       
backward                          re       
bane, offend, kill                je[n]       
be, is, are                       s
bone                              ost      
bound, border                     bund, bou      
brave, bold                       fon       
bright, shining                   kin, kn   
burn, burning, heat, hot          the,thy  
change status                     oldn     
dart, projectile                  ya
first, one, ten (Vilani word)     lan,lon   
for                               er
gash, cut                         shi      
hand, ship                        tel    
in, inner                         in        
isolated                          me[n]      
like                              -i        
move                              mou      
ordinal                           -th       
over, above                       epi
percent, a share                  roup
perfect tense?                    -[ie]ne       
progressive                       -[e]s        
river?                            ph[]l[u]me
season, periodic, jump            yor,yur  
seize, take, claim                ghe       
sell, risk                        f[e]r
strive for                        whan     
strong                            son      
that yonder                       [h]a-
the                               al,yl
the,that                          [h]e-   
the,this                          [h]i-
world                             orb      
you?                              wo

Choleosti. /chole[r]/ anger /ost/ bone /i/ 'like'. /osti/ [slang] badlands. "Angry ridges."

final -a: could represent an adverbalizer. Example: tellona
final -[e]s: progressive indicator?


"orb" words. I suppose 'orb' could just mean 'world'...

Menorb. /men/ isolated /orb/ world = isolated world.
Kinorb. /kin/ shine /orb/ world = bright world.
Knorbes. /kn/ shine /orb/ world /es/ [progressive] = shining world.
Forboldn. /f[]/ bold, brave /orb/ world /old/ change in status /[]n/ ?. = Brave "new order" world.


"-ie" words. Sort of loose.

Feri (final 'e' not needed?)
Ruie (the 'e' separates the 'ui' into two syllables?)
Pixie
Uakye (is this a different sound?)
Hef[e]ry Might share /fer/ with Feri?
Bevy
Heroni.
Margesi.
Tavonni.
Gitosy.
(Yori)



"-the" words. /the/ burning, heat, hot

Rethe. /re/ backward /the/ burning = burning backwards (?)
Inthe. /in/ in, inner (etc) /the/ burning = inner heat
Sonthert. /son/ strong /the/ burning /rt/ ? = strongly burning
Shionthy. /shi/ gash /on/ annoying + /thy/ burning = annoying burning gash


'yor-' words. /yor/ season, periodic. also jump.

Yorbund. /yor/ season /bund/ bound = season-bound.
Yori. /yor/ season /i/ like/as? = like [one] season.
Y[o]res. = /y[]r/ season /es/ [progressive] = seasonal changes?
Yur[?]st = /yur/ season /[]st/


'ghe' words ghe = "to seize, take, claim"

Jenghe. /jen/ bane, offend, kill /ghe/ = taken offense
Boughene. /bou/ boundary /ghe/ seize /ne/ [perfect?] = seized boundaries
Moughas. /mou/ move /gha/ claim /s/ [progressive] = moving a claim
Whanga. /whan/ "strive for" + /ga/


'[e]chi' words:

Wochiers. /wo/ you? /[]chie/ + /rs/
Rech. /re/ /ch[]/
Echiste. /e/ this /ch[]/ /ist/ /e/
Rhise. /rh[]/ /is[]/ /e/



'lan/lon' (Vilani "first", "one", "ten") words:

Lanth. /lan/ one /th/ -th = first
Loneseda. /lon/ + /es/ + /ed/ + /a/
Jae Tellona. /tel/ hand /lon/ one /a/ ly = single-handedly






*** Pile of Words Sorted by Ending more or less ***

Garda. "new" (is this local-speak?)
Heya.
K'Kirka.
Pirema.
Celepina.
Kegena.
Nutema.
Powaza.

Wypoc.

Tureded.

Efate. /e/ the, this
Enope. /e/ the, this
Algine.
Treece.
Macene.
Zivije.
Gerome.
Cipatwe.
Quare.
Frenzie.
Tionale.
Phlume.

Keng.

Risek.

Alell.

Dinom.
Somem.
Denotam.

Ylaven.
Gileden.
Fulacin.
Vinorian. (Sounds like a name. -ian may be a productive ending tho.)
Vanejen.
Caloran.

Ivendo.
Porozlo.
Stellatio.

Roup. One percent, as in land percentage?

Vilis.
Pscias.
Dentus. Den + tus.
Digitis.
Saurus.

Quopist.
Rangent.
Ficant.
Calit.

Keanou.
Huderu.

Tremous Dex.

Henoz.


....etc....

 

[robject]

Next Steps

The next step is to undo some of this mess.

See, this is supposed to be Anglic, so it's supposed to be somewhat recognizable. That means the words in the list should remind us of English words we know. Some words achieve that: 'orb' for world, 'bund' for boundary. Some are related via Latin or other languages, which is also fine: 'epi' for above, 'al' and 'el' for 'the', etc. And a rare word from Vilani is fine ('lan').

But for many words I used the Proto-Indo-European lexicon, which just doesn't work. I need to draw words out using English instead.

For example, 'pire' could mean burn, ignite, fire, launch, as in "pyre". And 'powa' could mean power. 'je[n]' should mean 'Engine'. 'quar' should mean restrict.

And endings should be close to English. -er should mean "thing which does".

 

[Plankowner]

Interesting. I find the "names" of some of the worlds gives a good idea of what that world might be light. In some cases more then the UWP did!

Ruie: I always pronounced it "RU-ee". Just seemed right.

Of course, I also pronounced Regina as "Reh-GEE-na" which seems to be in the minority...