Modern terminology in Poswa and Pabappa
Poswa and Pabappa are adept at coining new words, although Pabappa takes many loans from Poswa. Pabappa words in italics denote words recently loaned from Poswa. Words for which no Pabappa entry is given in this table also use the Poswa word, adapted to Pabappa's sound system.
i will try to rework this around verbs instead of nouns/.
cellphone & computer terms
probably just going to use a list here, not table. these might have multiple forms, or might have a single form for each action but with each one varying among /-mp-/ "hip", /-ntš-/ "pocket/handhold", and /-p-/ "hand" as the agent of motion. Note that /ntš/ does *not* mean "fingertip"; this sense comes from the archaic zero-locative, thus "what fits in a handhold", and that is why it only appears in compounds.
There is no requirement that these words be U verbs, but as newly coined technology terms, outside the classical vocabulary, the U verbs are convenient.
- phones
- swipe: pipup-U-, pipep-U-
- tap:
- pinch
- press: puntš-U-
- long press
- drag
- multi-touch press
- pinch (to zoom)
- computers
- click
- double-click
- left-click
- right-click
- scroll (with mouse wheel)
- to move the mouse
- to press and then move the mouse (make a selection etc)
- hover
Examples of coined words for modern technology
| English | Poswa | Pabappa | Shared etymology |
Other notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cellphone | pampappep | pampappep | pocket voice | electronics | ||
| chemical (warfare) | bumpša | punsasis | animal queen | Pabappa version adds sis "bomb" | weapons | |
| chemical (formula, recipe) | fompaevabašša | pompanibasa | substance that breaks down into two others | chemistry | ||
| cosmetic shampoo | puppsafamiši | hairstyle liquid soap | cosmetics/fashion | |||
| sunglasses | cosmetics/fashion | |||||
| shampoo (in general) | safamiši | apublip | beauty (liquid) soap; hair (liquid) soap | one word for beauty also means "hair of the head" | cosmetics/fashion | |
| sunblock, sunscreen | cosmetics/fashion | |||||
| suntanning lotion | cosmetics/fashion | |||||
| clock (in general) | appliances | |||||
| wristwatch | appliances | |||||
| car, automobile | pepope | — | cart vehicle | can also be parsed as "bubble vehicle", but this is due to coalescence of two unrelated words. This is just one of several words |
transportation | |
| car, automobile | — | puppabu | seat vehicle | transportation | ||
| refrigerator | šapes | literal meaning "fresh box", but first three letters are the same as one word for snow | appliances | |||
| robot | pužwabiam | — | slave born of machines | slave (pula) born of machines (bwabiam) | ||
| robot | žamapili | amabili | slave that walks | |||
| beer | ||||||
| typewriter | ||||||
| calculator | pwurpavwab | purpawab | math machine | |||
| calculator | pwurpožem | purpodem | math machine | |||
| calculator | pwuvbwem | pubbuem | math machine | assumes požem ---> bwem in Poswa, which causes r ---> v |
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| calculator | ||||||
| calculator | ||||||
| calculator | ||||||
| gun (in general) | baepimpwembwa | ulpassumpu | tube aiming bullets[1] | an SOV compound | weapons | |
| cannon | baeptwappwembwa | ulpussumpu | tube aiming bombs | [2] | an SOV compound | weapons |
| handgun, pistol | bipimpwembwa | — | hand aiming bullets | the word for tube is omitted | an SOV compound | weapons |
| handgun, pistol | — | ulpassumpusum | handheld tube aiming bullets | an SOV compound | weapons | |
| rifle | baebapimpwembwa | reed aiming bullets | an SOV compound | |||
| torpedo | weapons | |||||
| DNA | pypae | a repurposed old coinage from an old word for placenta | biology | |||
| balloon | wawampaelum | wawampailum | air buoy | |||
| balloon | --- | pesimplum | wind buoy | |||
| computer | pwurpavwab pubitom | purpawab pubitom | calculator with pictures on it | |||
| computer | pwurpavwab baviam | purpawab babiam | calculator with pictures on it | |||
| computer | pubapwurpavwab | puba purpawab | calculator of drawings | |||
| computer | pafapwurpavwab | papa purpawab | calculator of maps | |||
| computer | wembvapwurpavwab | wemba purpawab | calculator of maps | |||
| computer | ||||||
| computer | ||||||
| pill (medicine) | blibip | egg | ||||
| pharmacy | ||||||
