I've
started finished a round of reviewing my vocabulary in Lnuismk this time around and learned how to say 'hi' in Seneca as well.
I need to remember the following terms somehow:
awa'qi'kn 'crooked knife'
waqa'qanikn - either a variant of or an alternative to the above
kalqwasiet 'sunset'
waqame'k 'clean'
Because I'm having so much trouble remembering them, even though I know
waqnji'j is literally 'little knife'.
Dumb mnemonic time!
I guess I could imagine Donald Duck carrying a knife and suddenly finding it to be crooked and going "a-WAAAK!" (him doing something like this on
Ducktales is plausible
). Then he tries to straighten it out and goes "eeeeEEE" and then pushes it into place going "...[gn̩]!"
Then I could imagine an alternative Donald Duck (an imposter has appeared in an issue of
Donald Duck before) witnessing what just happened and going "wak! Ahhh..." (
waqa'...), then noticing that the knife in his gunny (...
qani...) sack is also not quite straight, so he goes "[gn̩]!" as he straightens it out as well:
waqa'qanikn!
The sunset is the "mouth" to "tomorrow," "yet" does not signal the arrival of a new day. 'Tomorrow' (and 'yesterday') in Hindi and Urdu is [kəl], and 'mouth' in Pashto is something like [ɣwaʐ]. Lnuismk doesn't have [ʐ]; closest thing it has to that is [z], so if you put those together, you get [kalɣwaz], and then combined with "yet," you get
kalqwasiet.
If I get someone to make things clean, then that is
work I make. (Also, the first syllable looks a bit like the word for 'knife', I guess, so it could have something to do with cleaning stuff off a surface that I cut with a knife? Idk
).
All four of these words must break down morphologically somehow.
But oh well.