STIMULANTS
Soy beans might give you energy as protein, but coffee beans do it with caffeine.
What kinds of stimulants do you or the people around you use? Do you all drink tea, or coffee, or yerba mate? Maybe you all chew tobacco, or smoke it? What about cocoa: do you drink or eat chocolate? Betel or kola nuts, or coca leaves? Do you have to trade for your stimulant of choice, or is it cultivated locally? How is it cultivated? How is it processed: do you have to roast or dry or mince or steep your stimulant, or can you ingest, eat, or just chew it whole or raw?
See you tomorrow when we’ll be extracting GREENS. Happy conlanging!
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Mãtuoìgà
aki - tobacco
ãncè - coffee
ãncèfa - to brew a caffeinated beverage
lha - to smoke
lhalha - fog, a high (from drugs)
lhalhafa - to get high
lhir - to drink
lhirãncè - to caffeinate, to drink a caffeinated beverage
mãkã - a pack; often referring to cigarettes
syiolh - tea, archaic tincture
syiolhfa - to steep
Juhakic:
kafe - coffee
wedeña - tobacco
zh eña - slang for tobacco
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the image is how the words look in my script
Câynqasang
Couple of English borrowings among these as well.
kâvi [ˈkɐːvi] n. coffee
lontu [lunˈto] n. tea plant
lontudun [luntuˈdɔn] n. tea leaf
lontusang [luntuˈsɐŋ] n. tea (drink)
iklontu [iklunˈto] v. mot. to brew, to steep
moyrû [mujˈriː] n. herbal tea
câklat [ˈt͡sɐːklat] n. chocolate
New words today: 7
Lexember running total: 133
I'm on mobile, so please excuse any formatting weirdness.
Lasat
Borrowed from Humans.
From bem /bem/ n. leaf and vahs /va:s/ n. tea
druźirdla
ọ is /ɔ/ ä is /æ/ ụ is /y/ ź is /ʒ/ c is /tʃ/ ö is /œ/ ś is /ʃ/ v is /ʋ/
Finally, I think I've caught up.
Firstly, I'll go with a word for "deity" in general – PDru voj, druźirdla *woj. Now we get **wo'uhos Lit. "Divine Gift" (woj + tuhos). This is the word for a psychoactive substance similar to the peyote . There is a bit of a ritual related to this, so a word for ritual hiźamụt .
Next, I make a verb "to brew" which is frulra. Then you have a general word for a stimulating brew – lifrom. Now, you have the word for coffee, pökid, a Wanderwort.
Not as good or fleshed out as I'd want this to be, but I wish to at leats catch up with this. It is better to make words of various varieties by doing every daily activity
New words: 6 Total new words: 98
Maxakaopae
Day 19: 14 words (471 total)
There is one native stimulant, (saji)fepomo (lit. "head-awareness(-thing)"), called kanona, which is used regularly by most people. Occuring as a leaf of a shrub, it can be chewed, mesohiwi, but is most often consumed as a drink, casa. Also known as akoakocasa, "beloved drink", or kakaficasa, "green drink", it is typically made with several other herbs.
Coffee is a somewhat popular import, especially on the coasts, known as ojasookanona (lit. "foreign kanona.")
Old Persian čay tšay tʃaj tea Arabic qahwa qahwa qahwa coffee Arabic qunnab quñab quɲab cannabis Arabic ḥaššiš haššiš haʃʃiʃ cannabis extract Arabic ṭubbāq ṭubbāq tˁubbaːq tobacco Spanish cigarro sigarru sigaru cigar
The Rumani make all sorts of things to wake them up, they use cannibis recreationally and medicinally. As well as making tea and coffee for its caffeine. They make a drink called Al-Lāqu dī qahwa, translating to ‘the milk with coffee’ a milk drink with a little bit of coffee in it for kids
Phaeroian
You are looking peaky. Perhaps you'll take some tea (miros, mirosis) before you head back to the City? It'll help your breathing, dear.
Expensive stuff, this—it costs 12 crescents (~$111.84 US) for every koisarina (~504.6g). But we get them in these squares (mentyr, mentyris, pl. mentoia) and shave (arnodos, -rnodos, rhondos, rhandys) bits of the stuff off when we need to, into a boiling pot (oplanon plananon). This square has lasted my family two weeks now! A nice little luxury for the cedar boxes Terros sold in the City. Of course, in the city they use those newfangled pots imported directly from Yashdar, where of course it comes from (NOTE: tea is actually imported to Yashdar first from the highlands, but there's little way to know this). They can dress up those so-called "teapots" (eumbron, eumbronis, pl. eumbra) as much as they like, it's still a needless foreign contraption.
Of course, not everyone likes the stuff. For a weaker blend some folks prefer the flowers of mandar trees; we've cultivated specific varieties that give you more of a buzz. (Oddly enough this doesn't have much effect on the mandars.) For stronger stuff, well, they say in the jungles of Temacan people chew eyeballs to give them energy. But then they also say that they prefer human flesh over flesh of bird or beast any day, so that's not saying much. Much rarer than leaf tea is bean tea, made from the seeds of the same plant, or so they say, and much more likely to perk you up. More expensive, too—a single bean can cost a crescent (~$9.32 US). Down in the islands of the Eya they apparently boil a root to get their energy.
I'll stick to leaf tea, myself.
Daynak (7 new words, 159 words total):
The Daye use tobacco as well as a plethora of natural hallucinogenic drugs (namely mushrooms). These stimulants are almost entirely within the realm of ceremonial use, partially out of respect and mild fear of the substances from a medical standpoint, and partially out of their relative scarcity compared to other natural resources. There are a few large tobacco farms in the southwest/southeast, but most tobacco is grown for household use in small plots or pots. Hallucinogenics are foraged from the local environment. Technically, lay people are supposed to give any that they find to their local priests who use them in ceremony, and there can be consequences if they don’t (and subsequently cause public nuisances due to being high), but this isn’t really a strict law. These types of drugs are not criminalized in Dayna, neither by native custom nor by colonial law. Holly teas common in the northeast also have stimulant properties.
Loaži (6 new words, 135 total):
The Loaži trade for coffee, which they both brew to drink and also use the ground up beans for seasoning and other types of cooking as well. Coffee has gained religious associations as a common offering, for it is considered the drink of the Gods that can appease their anger. I already talked about teas as well during the fruit day, but I’d imagine some other types of caffeinated teas are drunk as well. Additionally, kola nut is traded for as well from neighboring western African peoples. So! Time for more loan words today.
Proto-Ponenkis
The speakers of Proto-Ponenkis don't really have much in the way of stimulant access. They really only have certain types of holly (hrima /'χʁimɐ/) whose leaves can be made into an invigorating tea (serima /tsɛ'rimɐ/, literally "from holly").
I've accordingly chosen to take today to play catch-up again and fill out some words regarding TIMBER, which I missed and which is kind of a big deal to them.
Trees
beri /'beri/ - ash tree
tubaja /tu'bajɐ/ - redwood (nominalization of tube 'big, large, great')
thixra /'tʰiʃrɐ/ - fir tree
habil /'χabil/ - juniper
Woodwork
thasi /'tʰasi/ - to cut wood specifically (as opposed to something else), or to cut as though cutting wood, i.e., saw
khithasa /kʰi'tʰasɐ/ - saw (tool) (from khi- purposive, thasi 'cut wood')
thasu /'tʰasu/ - lumber, timber, worked wood (resultative nominalization of thasi)
uru /'uru/ - hole, gap
khjurza /'kʰjurdzɐ/ - awl (tool) (khi- purposive + nominalization of a verbalization of uru)
tahin /'taχin/ - splinter, shard (diminutive of tai 'wood', the diminutive itself derived from hine 'small, little')
xidu /'ʃidu/ - board/plank arranged vertically (as for a wall), hence through reduplication xexida 'wall, palisade'
beta /'betɐ/ - board/plank arranged horizontally; table, desk
thuma /'tʰumɐ/ - post, pillar (vertical); also til 'leg'
thaqa /'tʰaqɐ/ - beam, rafter (horizontal)
First time participating in Lexember!
Houkéñ, A speedlang
For context, in Houkéñ nouns are split into four noun classes corresponding to the four elements (earth, fire, water and wind), and each noun class prefix also acts as a derivation suffix with semantic meaning. Verbs are listed without conjugation prefixes.
léíďei [ˈleɪ.ɖeɪ] tea, n.
tíďei [ˈt̪ʰɪ.ɖeɪ] tea leaf, n.
leikáúhava [leɪ.ˈkʰaʊ.hɐ.ʋɐ] coffee, n.
tikáúhava [t̪ɪ.ˈkʰaʊ.hɐ.ʋɐ] coffee bean, n
Words for both tea and coffee are borrowings.
Splang 27
haay [haːj] n. tea (camellia sinensis tea)
ṣien [ʃjen] n. pl. tea leaves, especially dry tea leaves before making tea
keṣeha [keʃeha] v. st. to be tired
keṣeṣtema [keʃeʃtema] v. dyn. to get tired
amaama [amaːma] v. dyn. to brew, to steep, to make broth
at [at] n. day (period of time); day (of the week); date
lok [lok] n. hour
lokam aft adv. always, all the time
Day 19: 8/130
Some kind of speedlang
dz!yaaedroidz!aaatsuijLui [ꭦ!ʎɑe̞dɰɤ̞iʣɑaʦɯiʝʟɯi] caffeinated bean, beans that wake you up
shyaaiatsui [ʃʎɑɨaʦɯi] to dry out
shlueshyaaia [ʃlɯe̞ʃʎɑɨa] to heat up
'RUMANI
Old Persian čay tšay tʃaj tea
Arabic qahwa qahwa qahwa coffee
Arabic qunnab quñab quɲab cannabis
Arabic ḥaššiš haššiš haʃʃiʃ cannabis extract
Arabic ṭubbāq ṭubbāq tˁubbaːq tobacco
Spanish cigarro sigarru sigaru cigar
The Rumani make all sorts of things to wake them up, they use cannibis recreationally and medicinally. As well as making tea and coffee for its caffeine. They make a drink called Al-Lāqu dī qahwa, translating to ‘the milk with coffee’ a milk drink with a little bit of coffee in it for kids
Lexember Speedlang: Jróiçnia
Words: 10
I have decided that the island where Jróiçnia is spoken does have contact with the rest of the world. As such, people do "trade" = √kraluid and there is the occupation "trader" = donkralúidoł /d̥oŋ.kʰraˈluĭ.zoʟ/. However, I'm going to stick with native, or at least fully adopted, plants for this one.
Starting with a bush/tree, the "theo-plant" = uróum /uˈroŭm/ which produces caffeine and theobromine in it's berrys, seeds, roots and "leaf" = çuał /çuăʟ/. Both the seeds and leaves can be brewed into a "tea/tisane" = yuél /juˈel/ which is also common with other plants, such as some of the edible flowers from yesterday. The seeds and roots are also used as flavoring, similar to kola or chocolate.
Moving onto a larger tree, "nic-holly"= xestíak /ʂɛsˈtʰiăkʰ/ is a holly like tree that produces nicotine in its leaves and berries. Its leaf is used for its stimulating "smoke" = salúr /saˈlur/, also giving the verb "to smoke" = √salurnui, as in inhaling. The berries taste pretty bad, but are also brewed into a ritual concoction, one that can cause nicotine overdose if too much is drank by someone inexperienced.
Going with more of a small leafy plant for something "kratom-like" = topláu /tʰoˈpʰlaŭ/. People usually "masticate" = √lheab, but do not swallow, the leaves. The leaves are also dried, which they "grind" = √iartsun into a "powder" = sleun /slẽŭ/. Tisanes of the plant usually cause a higher dose, which leads to a non-stimulant effect, similar to its real life namesake.
Only three new plants but plenty of new words! I'm sure there would be many other interesting plants getting imported, but these are the ones being cultivated. Greens should be fun, might coin some more words for different parts of the plants.