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Lexember 6 for Nómàk’óla


A drawing of a nisse grating butter.
Lexember 6

Ànáþimvófippé’úttekšèvúfawe. “Grate the frozen butter into the dry ingredients.”

I only needed two new pieces to complete today’s translation. The first is an adjectival form of fíke “to freeze” (a verb I already had), using a quality derivation (which I also already had): vófike means “frozen”.

I also needed a word for “to grate” and decided to make it a compound from the verbs “to rub” and “to cut”. While téke “to cut” was already in my dictionary, I needed to create a new root for “to rub”, and I chose ‘ú for that form (its proto-form is *kux, and it left me with a delightfully short modern form). Put together, ‘útteke means “to grate”.