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diff --git a/src/haasdaiga/semantics/expressions.md b/src/haasdaiga/semantics/expressions.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c663f48 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/haasdaiga/semantics/expressions.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# Fixed Expressions + +| Purpose | English | Hàäsdáïga literal translation[^1] | +|-----------|---------|---------------------| +| Greeting | Hello | | +| Apologize | Sorry | I hope that you me.acc forgive.sub.fut | +| Express sympathy | Sorry | | + +[^1]: For the sake of simplicity and generality, only noun cases (if not + nominative) and verb mood (if not indicative) is used. diff --git a/src/haasdaiga/semantics/name.md b/src/haasdaiga/semantics/name.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aeb0bff --- /dev/null +++ b/src/haasdaiga/semantics/name.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +# Proper name and translation + +## Given name gender + +As a tradition, ancient Gaidaanan people gave names to newborns based with +gender based on the month of the year, as did people during the story +timeline. This is obvious with Hàäsdáïga month names, but it is not that +transparent to use in our world, which use 12 months in both solar and lunar +calendar (I am not aware of any other calendar system). For that reason, I +propose that we instead decide based on lunar months: + +- Wood if the person is born from month 1-3 +- Fire if the person is born from month 4-6 +- Metal if the person is born from month 7-9 +- Water if the person is born from month 10-12 + +This corresponds to the four seasons. Optionally, people born in month 6 or 7 +can be assigned gender Earth. + +## Family name gender + +Family names usually have meaning. If it is a noun (e.g. Poisson, Rice, Wood, +Pierre, Lagrange, ...) or adjective (Legrand, Leblanc, Weiss), they carry the +same gender as that corresponding noun or verb, even if it is not translated. +If it is a profession, which does not have a default gender, it would +theoretically be the gender of the first person carrying that name. That is +however not feasible, so instead it is associated with the thing that +profession works on. For example, Smith → metal, Gärtner → wood. For names of +unknown origin (Johnson, James, Nguyễn), just choose the first vowel in the +name for gender. + +All family names in Hàäsdáïga are nouns, though most people don't use it. diff --git a/src/haasdaiga/semantics/time.md b/src/haasdaiga/semantics/time.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fac4378 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/haasdaiga/semantics/time.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# Time + +## Months + +In the Gaïdaäna calendar, there are ten months, named after the five phases +and yin-yang: + +- Yang Wood +- Yin Wood +- Yang Fire +- Yin Fire +- Yang Earth +- Yin Earth +- Yang Metal +- Yin Metal +- Yang Water +- Yin Water + +Colloquially, they are also called by number from 1 to 10. |