tyrantofthefirmament:

namafangirl:

tyrantofthefirmament:

namafangirl replied to your post:

Ooh cool! What are they, and do they mean slightly different things? Like is one a bird wing and one an airplane wing for example? I’m interested in things like that.

one is כנף (kanaf) which is the one we use both for a bird wing and an airplane wing, the other is אבר (ever) which used solely for a bird wing and is apparently from the same source as איבר (eivar) which means “a limb”

 actually, since my  language is over 5000 years old, we don’t really have a word for an airplane wing, we just use the same one as a bird wing. אבר is just older and more poetic, so we don’t use it for an airplane wing, and not for a bird wing in everyday use either…

Oh cool! That’s awesome. And yeah it makes sense that they would just use the word for bird wings once airplanes were invented, which seems to be what most languages did. 

I think Seekers would have words for different configurations and shapes of wings, along with more general words that apply to anyone’s wings. They might even have a totally different word for wings that flap, since they are the opposite of humans, and encountered fixed wing, jet powered flight first. Latin is a bit like that, with extremely specific nouns for things that English uses a more generic noun coupled with adjectives for. Or how there are specific words for different kinds of snow in Inuit (they appear to have a couple of roots that appear often – “tla” being the most common, and there are some that show evidence of being created more recently to name concepts they came upon later, such as sculpted snow corsages for prom, which is amazing.)

yeah, i remember in school we learned once that every language

has many words to describe things that are important to them, we were asked to find as many words as possible that mean “happiness” in my language, and we found over 60! we also found over 70 different names to our capital city! idk i just find stuff like that really fascinating…