cws
planetworkshop (Modern Standard Sutti)
Greetings Guest
home > library > journal > view_article
« Back to Articles ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article » Journal
Culture: Fertility vocabulary
▲
1▲ 1 ▼ 0
This public article was written by [Deactivated User], and last updated on 28 Jun 2022, 16:15.

[comments] nlnculture
[Public] ? ?
1. 2016 Lexember Roundup ? ?
2. 2017 Lexember Roundup ? ?
3. 2018 Lexember Roundup ? ?
4. 2019 Lexember Roundup ? ?
5. 2021 CoWriMo ? ?
6. 2021 Lexember Roundup ? ?
7. 2022 Goals ? ?
8. 2022 Lexember Round-up ? ?
9. 2023 Goals ? ?
10. 2023 Lexember Roundup ? ?
11. 2024 Goals ? ?
12. affixes ? ?
13. Captative verbs ? ?
14. Collocations ? ?
15. Colors in Nolwynn ? ?
16. conjunctions and connecting words ? ?
17. Converbs ? ?
18. Culture: Corporeal Values ? ?
19. Culture: Eclipse Beliefs ? ?
20. Culture: Fertility vocabulary ? ?
21. Culture: Food Rituals ? ?
22. Culture: Mourning and birth rituals ? ?
23. Culture: Names ? ?
24. Culture: Parenting ? ?
25. Culture: Religion ? ?
26. Demonstratives ? ?
27. Discourse particles ? ?
28. Emotion signifiers ? ?
29. ergativity ? ?
30. Experiencer and stimulus ? ?
31. font characters ? ?
32. Fossils ? ?
33. Grammatical moods ? ?
34. Honorifics and Avoidance Language ? ?
35. Idioms, slang, cursing, and euphemisms ? ?
36. Indirect Objects & Noun Incorporation ? ?
37. Intransitive Verbs ? ?
38. Lesson #0: Pronunciation etc ? ?
39. Lesson #1: Verb basics ? ?
40. Lesson #2: Verbs again ? ?
41. Making comparisons ? ?
42. More about pronouns ? ?
43. Negation ? ?
44. Onomatopoeia, ideophones, phonaesthemes ? ?
45. participles and antipassive voice ? ?
46. Plurals ? ?
47. Politeness and respect ? ?
48. Politeness: Apologizing ? ?
49. Politeness: Responses to sneezing ? ?
50. Polysemes ? ?
51. Pronouns ? ?
52. Quoting and Indirect Speech ? ?
53. Relative Clauses ? ?
54. Serial verb constructions ? ?
55. Story mood ? ?
56. Stress, intonation, prosody ? ?
57. Telling time ? ?
58. Tulwyn vs Nolwynn ? ?
59. Untranslatable words ? ?
60. updates ? ?
61. Verbs 1 ? ?
+ Write new article in Nolwynn
Traditionally, Nolwynn value fertility, family, and pregnancy. They have an extensive vocabulary reflecting these states:

  • Kweynyeey: to be pregnant, literally “to create,” derived from the word kwey “womb”
  • kweynyomeey: to be pregnant with twins/multiples
  • Unizšé eeyr or nonimoreltxa zyóleey : to menstruate
  • Uakwuo [unizšé], uakwunizšé: menstrual blood
  • uakwira: to orgasm – Nolwynn traditional medicine believes that female orgasm is key to a healthy pregnancy
  • núla atš tšoraneey: to give birth [to], literally “lead into the light”
  • kweynabareey: to be fertile or capable of reproduction
  • Two eeyr: to ovulate
  • Tšyxaramitaba eeyr: to implant [an embryo in a uterus], to attach to the wall of a uterus


These verbs can be further modified with infixes which are only used for the fertility verbs:

  • olya: happily
  • abya: for the first time
  • orya: with fear
  • ama: at the same time as someone else
  • uzšw: late, late in the season
  • azšw: on time, in a favorable season
  • wuya: with good omens
  • weyya: with bad omens
  • uya: painfully


In recent years, many young Nolwynn have become more accepting of relationships that can't produce children due to infertility or homosexuality. Some Nolwynn have also decided that they do not want children. As a result, the fertility vocabulary and the ritual language surrounding it have been altered, replaced with ones for sexuality, or in some cases abandoned all together. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
Comments
privacy | FAQs | rules | statistics | graphs | donate | api (indev)
Viewing CWS in: English | Time now is 16-Jun-24 10:48 | Δt: 381.762ms