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A picture of a class 158 train composed of two units, one in old East Midlands Railway Livery and the other in the new livery. The image is captioned "babe, are you okay? You barely touched your mixed livery class 158"

One of the silliest consists on my trip home from work today, always a personal favourite.

#trains #class158 #uktrains

Tailoring, by contrast, is seen as a low-status domestic task, generally reserved for junior members of the clan, with no real market for finished clothes.

Cobbling is a more skilled job, with leather production and working normally carried out by professionals, often as a family trade.

The Chel are socially organised into clans and sub-clans, with most production and consumption of textiles happening within the local clan. Weaving of textiles is relatively high-status and is normally carried out by senior members of the clan. Fabrics are occasionally produced for market in cities

The Chel are traditionally pastoralists so historically goat wool was dominant. Since settling in the Sagra basin some 500 years ago a natural fibre akin to ramie has become the main source of fabrics. The čyotta, a culturally important garment, is normally made of finer undercoat, similar to mohair

Somewhat high-effort post about Chel clothing vocabulary to make up for abandoning Lexember.

There was going to be a third one for nobles, but it only added this one lexeme:

teyüwa /ˈt̪e.jy.wa/, overcoat, jacket. From Proto-Maṭa taṇu 'wool' + guri 'to stuff'.
INAN sa definite

#conlang

#Lexember 21 for Chel:

dator, /d̪a.ˈt̪ɔɾ/, a kind of flat-bottomed boat with a fore-aft rig, often used for transport or trade in the Sagra basin. From a unnamed-Sun-Valley-language word datxagh 'north wind'. The ancestors of the Chel seem to have confused the boat with the winds that bore it

#Lexember day 20 - Chel:

sükïl, /ˈsy.kɨɮ/, merchant, trader. From Proto-Maṭa ṭuki 'wheel, cart' + ṭasi 'person'. Animate

Aisö vavaya sükïl penni. An kišiš osan!
1s.GEN old_sib.ERG merchant.ABS betrothe.REAL.IMPF | 1p loaded be.IRR.PRF

"My sibling is marrying a merchant. We're gonna be rich!"

Example:

heidööwanyu meingöö techansa binslayih
prince-PL.ANIM-GEN secret.ABS shameful.INAN grow.REAL.INCP

The shameful secrets of the princes are starting to accumulate.

#Lexember Day 19 - Chel:

meingöö, /ˈmei.ŋœː/, secret, private property, true intentions. Proto-Maṭa loanword from Penu mai ngar lit 'hot stone', referring to hot rocks used a bed warmers. Inanimate
Definite singular: meingöösa, plural: meingööpi

Remedial day 18 of #Lexember for Chel:

hïšrï, /ˈxɨɕ.ɾɨ/ spring, well, fountain, origin. From Proto-Maṭa xiṣžu ras 'spring' (lit. water's eye). Sacral

poroolu lak hïšrï maylav jai
palace-GEN front fountain.ABS great.SACR exist.REAL

"there's a huge fountain in from of the palace"

#conlang

As a little cultural note, the Chel have a concept of partitive paternity, wherein the mother's husband imparts the child with a soul, making him the legitimate father regardless of biological paternity. Even if a married couple have never actually met, all children are considered legitimate issue.

#Lexember day 17 - Chel:

šïluu, /ɕɨ.ˈɮuː/, bastard, child of an unmarried mother. From Proto-Maṭa širu 'empty' + nominalizer -zi.
Inanimate. Irregular definite singular: šïrula, def. plural: šïluulan

Bastards are considered to possess no soul, and are therefore ripe for possession by evil spirits

#Lexember day 16 for Chel:

iwbrah, /iw.ˈbɾax/ˈ to build, to erect. Only used for larger, high-status, and normally public buildings; eg. Temples, palaces, forts. By extension sometimes used to refer to any building done by the state.
From Proto-Maṭa himaḍax, causitive of hima 'to stand'. Class 6

Going back to etymology - a cognate verb zič ('to adopt, to take ownership') does exist, but its sort of a zombie. The original word became extinct, only surviving in zičwü and the formal legal term zičlik 'current owner/guardian'. The modern verb zič is a back-formation from this legal term.

Example:

Sassilüra yo zičwü kwanla kunčyozu küdüü zičwü nlemasa kunčyoyïkza
official.DEF.ERG stone.ABS INST hall.DEF.ABS build.CONC timber.ABS INST quarters.DEF build.REAL.INCP

"Although the official built the main hall in stone, they are starting to build the private quarters with timber"

#Lexember day 15 - Chel

zičwü, /ˈd͡zit͡ɕ.wy/, 'with' - instrumental postposition. Sometime used for comitative in colloquial Chel, but this usage is considered non-standard. Reduced from a simultaneous converbal form, ultimately from Proto-Maṭa ziči 'to take, to harvest'.

#conlang

#Lexember 14 - Chel:

payryo, /ˈpajɾ.jɔ/, to pack smth up, to put smth away, to close a business, to end a military campaign, (slang) to make an offering of something. From Proto-Maṭa par- 'down' and ṇuṇ 'tent'.
Class 2 transitive verb.

#conlang

I absolutely love those metaphorical extensions of pránta

wrgt the example, 'tatta' means the 'senior' parent, i.e. the parent whose clan the children reside with and is not strictly gendered. I went with 'mum' in the translation due to character limits.
Keris is a fermented milk drink, somewhat similar to Mongolian airbag, but made with fantasy goat milk

#Lexember day 13 - Chel:

miyah, /mi.ˈjax/, to do, to make (Transitive), to happen (Intransitive). Irregular Class 6 verb.
From Proto-Maṭa 'migaḍax', causative of miga 'to move, to act'.

Anu tattaya keris čïsa miresi
1p.GEN parent.ERG airag.ABS good.INAN make.REAL.IMP

"Our mum makes good airag"

#Lexember day 12 - Chel:

kišiš, /ˈkiɕ.iɕ/, (slang) wealthy, loaded. From onomatopoeia of coins clinking in a purse.

Sometimes used as a class 5 intransitive verb meaning 'to get rich'.

#conlang

Remedial day 11 of Chel #Lexember:

kwaï, /kwaɨ/, warrior, soldier. From Proto-Maṭa kuxas 'spear'. Animate
Irregular definite, singular: kwau plural: kwossan

kwossanda menčalu innö syihayi
soldier-DEF.PL-ERG shepherd.DEF.ABS old.ABS search-REAL.IMPF

"The soldiers are hunting the old shepherd"

Remedial day 10 #Lexember for Chel:

sawngkï, /ˈsawŋ.kɨ/, obligation, oath, duty, especially in the sense of tribal bonds of fealty. From Proto-Maṭa sakṇas 'loyalty'. Sacral

Slightly, but frequently, irregular, as most case endings just ignore the final ï (e.g. Ergative sawngka, not sawngkïya)

Remedial day 9 of #Lexember for Chel:

yanbu, /ˈjan.bu/, to get drunk, to become intoxicated. From Proto-Maṭa ẓanabu of the same meaning. Class 1 intransitive.

Kan bečiyki yanbunyu
2p.NOM tomorrow-OBL get_drunk-IRR.PRF.INFR
"I suppose you're going to get drunk tomorrow"

Remedial day #8 of #Lexember for Chel:

do, /d̪ɔ/, naked, bald. From Proto-Maṭa juŋ 'green/blue' (this derivation makes a bit more sense with Chel skin tones)

ol do oï o?
2S.INF.NOM naked COP QST
"Are you naked?"

To think I was worried that /ɔ/ was going to end up a marginal phoneme...

Remedial day 7 of #Lexember for Chel

hakit, /xa.ˈkit/, hair braid, tassel. From Classical Aamaa' xwaqit 'fur, hair'. Inanimate

doublet of:

foï, /ɸɔɨ/, defiance, obstinance. From Sassanatsimoq foi' 'dignity, self-respect', a direct descendant of CA xwaqit, Inanimate

#conlang

It's been a horrifyingly busy week so I am now six whole days behind on #Lexember, why do we do this on the busiest month of the year? 😭

Remedial day 6 for Chel:

ol, /ɔɮ/, neck, mountain pass, ravine. From Proto-Maṭa hut 'neck'. Inanimate, definite sing: olla Def pl: ollan

#conlang

#Lexember day 5 for Chel

Zen, /dzen/, to address a social superior, to bow, to be held under obligation. From Proto-Maṭa 'zani', to call, to shout.
Class 1 Animate

Oš (keoh) zenyin
1S.HMB.NOM (2S.FRM.OBL) greet-REAL.PRF

lit. "I bow to you"
A formal greeting used for social superiors

#conlang

ilah, /i.ˑɮax/, to teach, from causative rinaḍax. Class 6 transitive

#Lexember day 4 - three Chel words from the same Proto-Maṭa root rina, 'to know':

Binna, /ˈbin.na/, to discover, to uncover a truth. From telic form binrina. Class 1 Transitive

Ïlna, /ˈɨɮ.na/, to master (a topic), to have insight into something , from pluractional Irina. Class 1 Transitive