Various ideas
Greetings
My goat ate your unborn child.
How to express “unborn” - or, for that matter, “born”? Child can be tafel. Kez etiz jo tzijet tafel isiz. The goat ate your child. Ten sopen kez retenaim. The morning is a radiant goat. (Good morning) Kez kon nulu topen. The goat is approaching the void. (Good evening)
Verbal aspect
Does Lakife need imperfect? Able to - pa. Volative (hopes / wishes) - tou. Attempt . fetou. Obligation (must) without and with volition (respectively). mou / moua. Suggestion (should). uqa, uqaja (more obligatory) Habitual. sou. Habit. souju.
Mood
Imperative - joz (only second person) Hortative - jax (any person)
Conditionals
if - then
- If phrase doesn’t imply anything in thhr then phrase: normal verb / normal verb
- hypothetical future: nv / future
- counterfactual: subj / subj
Metaphor
Metaphor must be taken into consideration or metaphors from a conlanger’s own language will be unconsciously borrowed into the conlang.
- Lofez kon tomir li an mihiqa jetz - sleep that is alive
- The sheep has sleep that is alive (it is dreaming).
- Lofez tzito(mi)hiqa.
- The sheep dreams.
‘lauschen’ is such a pretty German word. It’s more than listening, it implies that you are very quiet yourself and attentive. Etymologically it comes from being hidden (thus extending to secretly listening). ‘lauschig’ - cozy, secluded. It’s almost onomatopoetic, if were to make an artificial cut (lau = mild, tepid; sch…. for hushed).
To cover & to hide are basically the same thing. syk is “the hidden thing” or “unseen thing”. miusyk - hidden
Face / surface Get sciency here Use names for the interior if a cell or atom metaphorically. Nucleus of a song or book == its principal part. Contrast English uses “heart”. Lakife also has haru, which could also mean nucleus.
Sleep soundly… sleep beside the silence of creation. Mitomir kon tix haraiz.
Metonymy
Direction
Let’s use geometry. She looked around == she observed all vectors Letz == direction. Anja jo qotxiloka letzek.’
aesthetics
Pleasing to me - Pleasing to the sheep Abhorrent to me Abhorrent to the sheep
jetz / nis / topen / pif / pot
- associate with. agentive.
- make all these words agentive.
- Tin moles nis etjo kez qotxijetz. In the forest, I was associating with the goat.
Nuz kez jetz etjo peitu txinis af. I want to make space at home for goats.
random
qimoljaum means “become without movement”. Probably something shorter for “stop” is in order.
Something decides me: That event or object made me make a decision.