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Conlangery SHORTS #20: #Lexember 2015 Highlights

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The Multiple Meanings of a Word

In Kepa religious thought, the penultimate stage in the process of dying. So presumably this has something to do with as you are close to death. Here's another example from the Sla-Siri language. I'm not going to sla-siri-li-sla-s-a-li-ra-is-a. This is the name of his blog. He had yuru, or yuru, which he was inspired by Christmas Eve dinner to make a word for scalding hot. Again, a bunch of related senses collected together and that's a very long, full dictionary entry.

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