Sajem Tan/Etymology

This is where all of your favorite Sajem Tan words come from, created and compiled by me, Wind.

Terms from Meetings

June 2016

Week 4

• zhnelm: (adj.) bright
  zh + "nelm" (sight)
• snysuhn: (adj.) fluffy
  "snym" (cloud) + suhn
• tuht: (transitive verb) to be similar in size to
  "tuhn" (having a quality or property) + "duht" (big)
• duhgan: (n.) a circle
  "duhfnat" (2D geometric object) + "kagan" (hula-hoop/donut)
• vulcifnat: (n.) a triangle
  "vulc" (3₁₀) + i + "duhfnat" (2D geometric object)
• sluhtolduhn: (n.) a tetrahedron
  "sluht" (4₁₀) + "golduhn" (3D geometric object)
• sesult: (v.) to yell
  "sesuht" (sing boisterously) + ul
• zevulc: (n.) a mistranslation
  Looks like a misspelled "vulc" (3₁₀) -- mistranslations can be misspelled -- similar to zet (knowing wisdom/silliness) -- sometimes mistranslations can be silly -- and zezholt (well-intentioned) -- mistranslations are not done on purpose.
• kidek: (n.) face
  "kexek (emotion) + id
• slelceln: (n.) lemon
  mi + "slelceln" (orange)
• tulceslit: (n.) that which affects you in a good way
  "tult" (object) + ce + "slik" (good) + t
• gak: (adj.) fun derived from a game or other entertainment
  g + "tak" (play)
• jelshnec: (n.) a signature, particularly an autograph.
  "jelkelm" (book) + "shnuhk" (lips) + ec
• zlafmelk: (v.) to miss a target, especially when aiming a projectile weapon like a gun, a bow, or a laser
  "zlaslolk" (gun/laser/phaser/etc.) + "fmelk" (counter-factual) + ol
• slnaxan: (v.) to idly chat despite not wanting to; small talk; (v.) when someone tries to end a silence but all they do is make it worse
  "slnuhm" (boring) + a + "xanoln" (greet)
• nuldic: (n.) a miner, usually a coal miner; one who mines
  "nuln" (friend) or "nulvmic" (charcoal) + dic
• julnim: (transitive verb) to have a pleasant dream; (n.) the opposite of a nightmare
  "zhejuln" (enjoy) + "tishnim" (sleepy)

Other odd etymological links

• duhden: pasta; something that distracts from the topic at hand.
  This was created when the rest of the tribe was discussing other things, but Wind jumped in abruptly with a word for "pasta". The tribe then decided that the alternate meaning of pasta was to be "something that distracts from the topic at hand." It has expanded to include "throwing off conversations" and "to distract."
• tythemek: a mythical centipede with human hands, and the teeth and dangling thing of a deep-sea anglerfish, bad idea.
  Wind originally thought up the idea for a mythical centipede monster. However, the idea got corrupted when he added the extra details. It was also the origin of the Pit of Bad Ideas, and the tythemek being the first thing to be cast down to the abyss, it earned the alternate term "bad idea"