Guess the Word in Germanic Conlangs

[spanick]

Is the whole word "embassy"?

Yes, well done!

The homophone pairs are:

framažabahchus “embassy”
framažabahtshus “ambassador’s residence”

framažabahc “foreign ministry”
framažabahts “ambassador”

[zyma]

Is the whole word "embassy"?

Yes, well done!

Awesome, I'll try to post a new word as soon as possible.

The homophone pairs are:

framažabahchus “embassy”
framažabahtshus “ambassador’s residence”

framažabahc “foreign ministry”
framažabahts “ambassador”

Cool! Are "ambassador" and "ambassador's residence" derived from *ambahtaz?

[eldin raigmore]

Oh, heck. I was guessing it was about Frampton’s Zabatt shoes.

[spanick]

The homophone pairs are:

framažabahchus “embassy”
framažabahtshus “ambassador’s residence”

framažabahc “foreign ministry”
framažabahts “ambassador”

Cool! Are "ambassador" and "ambassador's residence" derived from *ambahtaz?

Yes, they are. Abahts (masculine, first declension) is best translated as “minister” usually of a higher rank. For instance, members of parliament use that as do head of government departments/ministries, abahc (neuter, first declension). A lower ranking government official and the word for civil servants in general is either abahcaž (masculine, first declension), which is obsolescent, or abahtnik (neuter, first declension).

[zyma]

Yes, they are. Abahts (masculine, first declension) is best translated as “minister” usually of a higher rank. For instance, members of parliament use that as do head of government departments/ministries, abahc (neuter, first declension). A lower ranking government official and the word for civil servants in general is either abahcaž (masculine, first declension), which is obsolescent, or abahtnik (neuter, first declension).

Ah, got it.

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Language: Modern Königsberg Northeast Germanic
Word: šaismýklaibs
IPA: /ˈʃɛːɪ̯zmaʏ̯klɛːɪ̯ps/

[spanick]

Language: Modern Königsberg Northeast Germanic
Word: šaismýklaibs
IPA: /ˈʃɛːɪ̯zmaʏ̯klɛːɪ̯ps/

Is it a noun?

[zyma]

Language: Modern Königsberg Northeast Germanic
Word: šaismýklaibs
IPA: /ˈʃɛːɪ̯zmaʏ̯klɛːɪ̯ps/

Is it a noun?

Yes, it is.

[spanick]

Language: Modern Königsberg Northeast Germanic
Word: šaismýklaibs
IPA: /ˈʃɛːɪ̯zmaʏ̯klɛːɪ̯ps/

Is it a noun?

Yes, it is.

Does it consist of 3 morphemes compounded?

[zyma]

Language: Modern Königsberg Northeast Germanic
Word: šaismýklaibs
IPA: /ˈʃɛːɪ̯zmaʏ̯klɛːɪ̯ps/

Is it a noun?

Yes, it is.

Does it consist of 3 morphemes compounded?

No, it does not.

[spanick]

No, it does not.

More or fewer?

[zyma]

No, it does not.

More or fewer?

There are two roots.

[Lambuzhao]

Is it a plant?

*Schäßem·klee

[zyma]

Is it a plant?

No.

*Schäßem·klee

I assume you're asking if it's cognate to that in German? I also assume you mean Klee, "clover", from Proto-Germanic *klaiwaz, but I can't find any definition for "Schäßem" anywhere online, so I don't know what you mean by that. I can say, though, that neither part of the word is descended from *klaiwaz.

[spanick]

Do the sounds represented by <ai> share a common origin in PG? If so, is that origin from *ai?

Is the sound represented by <ý> the result of i-umlaut of *ū?

[zyma]

Do the sounds represented by <ai> share a common origin in PG? If so, is that origin from *ai?

Yes and yes.

Is the sound represented by <ý> the result of i-umlaut of *ū?

Technically yes, but *ū is not Proto-Germanic.

[spanick]

Are the roots separated as šaismý-klaibs?

[zyma]

Are the roots separated as šaismý-klaibs?

Indeed they are, although I should note that there is an inflectional suffix on each side of that hyphen as well.

[spanick]

Are the roots separated as šaismý-klaibs?

Indeed they are, although I should note that there is an inflectional suffix on each side of that hyphen as well.

Is the inflectional ending of klaibs nominative singular masculine?

[zyma]

Are the roots separated as šaismý-klaibs?

Indeed they are, although I should note that there is an inflectional suffix on each side of that hyphen as well.

Is the inflectional ending of klaibs nominative singular masculine?

Yes, it is.

[spanick]

Is the inflectional ending on the first root from the dative singular of either a PG O or U stem?

Does š derived from PG *sk?