This December, I decided to create an entirely new conlang, Soleisu. Like all new conlangs, it needed a lot of words. And what could possibly be better for new words than Lexember?
Day 1 / 2021-12-01
kala /ka.la/ n. – language
Despite this being day 1’s word, it was actually created on December 4th. It was, however, the first word to have an actual meaning assigned to it. I thought that having the word for “language” very early on would be useful.
Day 2 / 2021-12-02
lü /ly/ n. – fish
This is one of the test words I created when I was working on the conlang’s phonology. It was originally /lu/, but I changed it to /ly/ when I realized I wanted a short word with that /y/.
Day 3 / 2021-12-03
tolko /tol.ko/ n. – moon
A test word that gained a meaning on December 4th. This one shows one of the conlang’s syllable-final consonants, /l/, which can only occur in the middle of a word – never at the end of one.
Day 4 / 2021-12-04
yene /je.ne/ n. – sun
Another test word. /j/ using <y> is the reason /y/ is represented with <ü>. Umlauts don’t exist anywhere else.
Day 5 / 2021-12-05
hali /ha.li/ n. – star
After “sun” and “moon”, I decided it would also be good to have a word for “star”.
Day 6 / 2021-12-06
selio /se.li.o/ n. water
I was pretty stumped this day. I’d decided to stick with nouns until I had the time to create more grammar, and I couldn’t think of any nouns I wanted to create words for. I settled on “water” as it would probably end up being useful in compound words and example sentences.
Day 7 / 2021-12-07
palha /pal.ha/ n. fire
Then I decided to stick with the element theme.
Day 8 / 2021-12-08
mailke /mail.ke/ n. dirt, earth
Day 9 / 2021-12-09
kannai /kan.nai/ n. person
I very quickly got sick of elements.
Day 10 / 2021-12-10
nalai /na.lai/ n. thought
Day 11 / 2021-12-11
laati / la.a.ti/ n. memory
Day 12 / 2021-12-12
lunta /lun.ta/ n. secret
This word is partially inspired by Irish rúnda, which means “secret”.
Day 13 / 2021-12-13
se /se/ prn. I, me
I figured it might be useful to finally create a first person pronoun.
Day 14 / 2021-12-14
anali /a.na.li/ v. to shine
This is the first verb created for Soleisu!
Day 15 / 2021-12-15
katnei /kat.nei/ v. to see
Day 16 / 2021-12-16
itali /i.ta.li/ v. to speak
I decided it would be useful to create more verbs for future grammar tests.
Day 17 / 2021-12-17
satoi /sa.toi/ v. to read
Day 18 / 2021-12-18
salkai /sal.kai/ v. to walk
Day 19 / 2021-12-19
matni /mat.ni/ v. to think
Day 20 / 2021-12-20
selini /se.li.ni/ v. to flow (water)
Day 21 / 2021-12-21
soleisu /so.lei.su/ n. river
Day 22 / 2021-12-22
silu /si.lu/ n. mountain
Day 23 / 2021-12-23
kesli /kes.li/ v. to sing
Day 24 / 2021-12-24
ika /i.ka/ n. house
Day 25 / 2021-12-25
soi /soi/ n. food
Day 26 / 2021-12-26
nome /no.me/ adj. black
Day 27 / 2021-12-27
nimu /ni.mu/ n. cloud
Day 28 / 2021-12-28
ensi /en.si/ n. tree
Day 29 / 2021-12-29
piya /pi.ja/ n. sky
Day 30 / 2021-12-30
tiku /ti.ku/ n. light
Day 31 / 2021-12-31
osei /o.sei/ adj. bright