Vocabulary 1

Here are some beginning vocabulary words:

1. Me  - Meym
2. You - Tewt
3. It  - Lihl

4. Be   - kewp
5. Give - dohn

6. Ball  - bawl
7. Stars - tahl

8. Many - mehn
9. Good  - lewt

Rationale

Symmetrical syllables are special. Me is the most common word, so I figured pronouns get first choice of assignemnts of roots. Me, Tu are easy to remember from Latin and Spanish (and add the last letter to make it a valid komLang syllable.) With a nasal and a plosive sound, a "special" or frictive sound was needed, and L is more common than F, so it is lihl. There is also a good distribution of low/hi and front/back, rounding non/rounding vowels.

Be is a combination of verb and noun indicator consonants (more on that later.) Give is like "dona" Latin, and the English word donation.

Bawl sounds just like ball in English. I don't remember why I thought stars and tahl would be good words.

Mehn, is the first syllable of many. Also, "M" tends to imply much, more etc. I don't remember why I assigned lewt to good, except its a common word that needs sounds from the first easy set.


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