David Peterson
Megdevi

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Concerning some common stars:
The stars were arbitrarily classified.
One type is called a walking star.  It is always moving about in the night-sky.
One other type is the stationary star.  It is always far from the sun.
One other is called the dying star.  Another name for this one is the falling star.  When it falls from the night sky, it becomes a rock.
One other type is the foreign star.  It is briefly seen in the night sky.  Chikals violently destroyed the sun of that world.

wi mejl&Z SejIf&Z fagil&Z:
SejIf&Z padZarisu GafinItsi.
manaNisi Tin SejIf lISejIf maliNad.  sUlo doj bojN wAlCo ?AvinETuT tsajaSo.
TejIj matsali Zi SejIf ladin.  sUlo Zi se4IjIm doj Hajani.
TejIj manaNisi lISejIf DadiTad.  Tajij mAnoN paf Tejl matsali Zi SejIf maniSad.  ZUlo doj tSejn wAlCo ?AvinETuT manaSo, doj xadUllako.
TejIj matsali Zi SejIf qamim.  doj lEnt wAlCo ?AvinETuT jasaTiso tazifItsi.  tSikAls gaza4u gejl ketIp ?Ase4IjuT hadizItsi.

    Megdevi is built on the triconsonantal system.  As such, I'll give you a list of templates, and a list of a triconsonantal roots and their associated themes, and you can mix and match.  Here are the templates (/1/, /2/ and /3/ indicate the first, second and third consonants of the root, respectively):

Nouns and Adjectives:

1e2I3 = natural noun (this is a human, a plant, an animal, or a natural thing [mountain, stone, sun, river, ocean, etc.])

1a2i3 = natural adjective (this is an adjective that derives directly from the root, and can't be seen [in English] as derived: nice, happy, sad, angry, etc.)

1&2I3 = utility noun (this is a noun that's either used to serve a function, or is manmade: toaster, brick, sword, oven, etc.)

1A2o3 = object noun (this is a noun that's used to pick out the common object of a verb, or a single instance of a verb, or the result or goal of a verb: (a/the) jump, (a/the) turn, (a/the) label, (a/the) shot, (a/the) target, etc.)

1a2i3ad = verbal adjective (this is pretty much a present participle, but is strictly an adjective, unlike English)

1i2E3 = place noun (pretty self-explanatory: house, building, etc.)

1A23o = day/time noun (these are used for days of the week, and times of day, such as evening, sunrise, etc.)

Verbs:

1a2a3- = This is the basic verbal root, to which things can be affixed.  The tenses are:

-i = present; -u = past; -A = future; -o = habitual/irrealis/subjunctive/conditional

Some other verbal affixes are:

trA- = causative; dZa- = makes intransitive; -Ull- = inchoative ("to become".  This infix is infixed directly after the second consonant of the root); -is- = passive (attaches directly after the last consonant of the root)

Affixes:

-&Z = plural (attaches to nouns and anything that modifies those nouns)
?A- -uT = construct case (this attaches to the second noun in a noun construct set.  So, if you wanted to say "the boys book", first you'd say "the boy", then you'd say "book", and you'd surround book with the /?A- -uT/ circumfix, creating something like "the boy the book of")
lI- = odd thing (it introduces phrases that are usually in quotes, such as when you're saying what something/one's name is, and it also introduces relative clauses)
-Itsi = makes an adverb out of anything
-Im = accusative marker (attaches to nouns and adjectives.  Note: When something in the construct case is a direct object, it does *not* take accusative marking.)

Notes:

Word order is completely free.  Nouns and adjectives can be mixed up, as long as they all occur together, but you can have VSO, SVO, OVS, VOS, or anything.  Prepositions always preceed the clauses they modify.  I'll let you know what the word order of each clause is.  In fact, I'll do that now:  (1) No verb or object; (2) SVO (no object); (3) (a) VSO, (b) SOV; (4) (a) SVO, (b) OSV; (5) (a) SVO, (b) SVO, (c) SOV, (d) SVO (no object); (6) (a) SVO, (b) SOV, (c) SVO.

Triconsonantal roots and prepositions/WH-ish words:

bojN = through (adv.)
D-d-T = death
doj = 3rd person neuter pronoun
f-g-l = in this case, commonness, ordinariness
gejl = that (adj.)
G-f-n = arbitrariness
g-z-4 = destruction
h-d-z = violence
H-j-n = farness (the verb means "to be far from x", and it's transitive)
j-s-T = sight
k-t-p = world, planet
l-d-n = stationariness, immobility
l-n-t = inner, inside (preposition formed from this: /lEnt/)
mejl = some (adj.)
m-l-N = walking
m-n-N = naming
m-n-S = falling
m-ts-l = being
paf = for (beneficiary) (prep.)
p-dZ-r = classification, inventory
q-m-m = foreignness
S-j-f = stars
sUlo = always (adv.)
s-4-j = sun
Tejl = this (adj.)
Tin = this kind of, such a kind of (in this case, "this one kind of," or "one kind of") (adj.)
T-j-j = otherness
tSikAls = This one's been a thorn in the side of this relay.  I thought it was some evidential word, but I was told that it's a proper noun, just some guy's name, without any meaning behind it.  I think it may have been at one time a word for some sort of creator/destroyer spirit, or something, but no longer!  Now it is just: tSikAls!
ts-j-S = quick, linear movement; streaks
tS-j-n = away (adverb from this category: /tSejn/)
t-z-f = brevity
v-n-T = sky
wi = with respect, in regards to, concerning, on, as for (prep.)
w-l-C = moon, night
x-d-k = rock
Zi = the (definite article)
ZUlo = at the time that, the time that, when (adv.)