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09 Oct 2015, 6:03 pm

drych (mirror, Welsh)

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10 Oct 2015, 4:46 pm

seamróg — shamrock, Irish

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12 Oct 2015, 8:47 pm

ceapaim — I think (Irish)

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17 Oct 2015, 6:22 pm

gealach —moon (Irish)

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18 Oct 2015, 8:06 am

Aoine — Friday (Irish)

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27 Oct 2015, 8:54 pm

fáinne— ring (Irish)

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02 Nov 2015, 2:39 am

a..are conlangs allowed?

Vairiewietis — Incinerator. (Etronan)

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26 Nov 2015, 9:45 am

turcaí — turkey (Irish)

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27 Nov 2015, 2:40 am

Devonanni — "grimesight" (Etronan), an unconventionally beautiful sight, strangely charming yet against conventional wisdom.

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02 Dec 2015, 1:01 am

Mae hi'n gymylog

It's Cloudy, Welsh. I need to start doing this again and stick with it, it was a good daily routine.

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04 Dec 2015, 3:02 am

Gaeaf

Winter, Welsh

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08 Dec 2015, 5:04 am

Dw i ar goll

I am lost, Welsh

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08 Dec 2015, 5:48 am

maltrinki

Esperanto slang for 'to piss'. Trinki means 'to drink', and the prefix mal- turns a word into its opposite, so you can think of it as "to undrink".

Kiprobalhato wrote:

a..are conlangs allowed?

How do you decide whether a conlang is "foreign"?

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12 Dec 2015, 11:47 am

naoi - nine [Irish]

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16 Dec 2015, 1:07 pm

Spiderpig wrote:

How do you decide whether a conlang is "foreign"?

if you don't have a grip on it like you do with....your first language?

אור "Ohr", Light [hebrew]

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