- Title
- Words for Nutmeg in Artificial Languages
- Creator
- Libert, Alan Reed
- Relation
- ATLAS International Congress on Social Sciences 8. ATLAS International Congress on Social Sciences 8: Full Text Book Book (Ankara, Turkey 11-13 June, 2021) p. 39-44
- Relation
- https://www.kongreuzmani.com/site.html?https://www.atlasconference.org
- Publisher
- IKSAD Global Publications
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Words for 'nutmeg' vary considerably in natural languages, e.g. Irish noitmig, Spanish nuez moscada, Hungarian szerecsendió, and Turkish küçük hindistan cevizi. It is therefore not surprising that words for 'nutmeg' also differ in artificial languages, i.e. languages which have been consciously created. This paper will be a survey of such words. One might first note that there are many artificial languages (probably the vast majority of them) which do not have such a word, as their vocabularies were only partially developed. Among a posteriori artificial languages (which draw on one or more natural languages for their vocabulary) we find e.g. Esperanto muskato, Romániço moschi-nuço. When looking at these languages one question will be which natural language words were the most popular as the source for the word in the artificial language? Words for 'nutmeg' in a priori artificial languages (which are attempts to build a language from scratch) will, naturally, be completely unlike their counterparts in natural languages, e.g. Kah shunashum, Ro lutas. However, these words will sometimes be part of a system of vocabulary in which words with similar meanings have similar forms; thus the words in Ro for 'cinnamon' and 'ginger' are only slightly different from its word for 'nutmeg', being lutaf and lutag respectively. The mixed language Volapük also has a word for 'nutmeg', mirifruk. (Mixed artificial languages have both a priori and a posteriori components.)
- Subject
- artificial languages; constructed languages; culinary terminology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1450032
- Identifier
- uon:43809
- Identifier
- ISBN:9786057067180
- Language
- eng
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