Xyphiod Thoughts - Blade's Journal

Day 20

Sinnish: pazh /paʒ/ - n.c. - earth - chair, seat

Rhetorical Alchemy: ihstah /ˈis.ta/- noun - meter, measuring device, ruler, benchmark

Day 21

Sinnish: ragom /ɾa.ˈgom/ - n.c. - earth - a beast, a fearsome animal

Rhetorical Alchemy: zehjees /zɛ.ˈʤis/- noun - knife, cutting implement (as a tool, not a weapon)c

Day 22

Sinnish: ashki /ˈaʃ.ki/ - n.c. - earth - a cat or feline

Rhetorical Alchemy: hah /ha/ - noun - wind, air current

Day 23

Sinnish: ediol /ˈe.di.ol/ - n.c. - air - symbol, glyph, signature, identifying mark, birthmark

Rhetorical Alchemy: snolnleengankah - /snoln.ˈliŋ.æn.ka/ "You are enjoying this, aren't you?"

sno-ln-leegehn-kah
sno-ln-leengan-kah
2SG.NOM-3ISG.ACC-enjoy.PROG-confirm

The object prefix ln- is the third person inanimate singular marker. I've translated it here as 'this', but it is literally just 'it'. However, it's likely that it would refer to a previously established 'it' in discourse, so 'this' is a good translation. The root for 'to enjoy' is leegehn, which has been melted to put it in the progressive aspect ('you enjoy' vs 'you are enjoying'). The suffix 'ka' is used to indicate yes/no questions and literally means 'confirm this'. This means that while this is semantically a question, syntactically it is not.

Note that leegehn /li.gɛn/ becomes /liŋ.æn/ when melted, the onset /ŋ/ becomes the coda to the previous syllable. RA does not allow /ŋ/ in an onset, so the syllable boundary moves.

Day 15:
Sinnish:
shayimazham /ʃa.ya.ˈma.ʒam/ - v.t.- sun - to feel compersion, to take joy in the love that those you love share with others. Literally 'to braid-love'. (Note: this is realized as [ʃaɪ.ya.ˈma.ʒam])

Rhetorical Alchemy:
fluhnuhnt /flən.ənt/ - noun - schadenfreude (a common feeling in Asuran society)
fluhnt-CF
flunt is the verb for 'to gloat'. The root is projected, which turns it into a noun for 'the feeling of gloating'. Projection is a catalytic process, a process in which a catalyst is attached to a root word to derive a new word. A catalyst is an affix that is underspecified phonemically, so that the actual sounds used depend on word it attaches to. In projection, the catalyst is a ferment (abbreviated CF), which is infixed before the final coda of the word and is a nasal that matches the core of the core of the final coda and a vowel that matches the stressed vowel in the word. Other catalytic processes include amalgamation, corrosion, fusion, virtification and vitriolifaction, and use catalysts of mercury, acid, lime, and vitriol, respectively.

Day 16:
Sinnish:
ed /ed/ - n.c. - sun - a gift, a present

Rhetorical Alchemy
pauvalg /ˈpaʊ.valg/ - n.c. - a near-miss, a problem that has been narrowly avoided
pau-valg
pau is, of course, an explosion. The suffix valg attaches to something to mean it is 'almost' that. It's used in verbs to mean to try to do something but just barely miss it. It would also be used in terms like 'virtual reality' or 'titular head'.

Sinnish: arakim /a.ra.ˈkim/- n.c. - a spice, a seasoning, a flavoring, a condiment

Rhetorical Alchemy:
tehd /tɛd/ - noun - morphosyntax
Interestingly, a number of complex linguistic concepts are translated with very short words in Rhetorical Alchemy.

Another day of simple words
Sinnish: chas /ʧas/ - v.i. - water - to be sad

Rhetorical Alchemy: snaum /snaʊm/ - noun - cog, gear