The OK Corral of Correlatives

2038-01-19T03:14:07Z

I looked at last month's site stats and finally updated the 10 most popular language pages on LangMaker.com. Quite a bit of change, with Atlantean the new number one, displacing humble Kordron.

Meanwhile, back on the Novvocu front, I think I've wrangled up a good group of correlatives. Here's the preliminary table. I coined the following new words to derive these forms from:

calih [From Russian /kalishestv/, with initial /k-/ in Arabic /kami/, Spanish /kantidad/ and English /kwantiti/.] measure, quantity, amount, quantum -- (how much there is of something that you can measure);; quantity -- (an adequate or large amount; "he had a quantity of ammunition");; quantity -- (something that has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable)

cals [Latin 'classis', "class of citizens", extant in Russian, Spanish, English, et al.] class, kind, sort, form, variety -- (a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?");; class, category, family -- (a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents");; class -- ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders);; class, social class, socio-economic class -- (people having the same social or economic status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class")

licun [From Interlingua 'alicun', "some, any; few".] some, any -- an indefinite or unspecified number or portion

metod [From Greek 'methodos', extant in Russian, Latin, Spanish, English, et al.] manner, mode, style, way, fashion -- (a manner of performance; "a manner of living"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a way of life");; means, agency, way -- (how a result is obtained or an end is achieved; "a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success")

per [From Latin 'persona', extant in Romance (Spanish, Italian, et al), Germanic (English, German, et al) and Russian, with initial /p-/ in Hindi /puruc/.] person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul -- (a human being; "there was too much for one person to do")

rizon [From Russian /rizon/, from Old French 'raison', extant in Spanish, English and Novial.] reason, ground -- (a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration");; reason -- (an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon; "the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly")

temp [Latin 'tempus', extant in English ('temporal'), Romance (Spanish, Italian, et al) and auxiliaries (Esperanto, Novial, et al).] time -- (an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time");; time -- (a suitable moment; "it is time to go");; time -- (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past);; clock time, time -- (the time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock")