The BG Language Creation Guide

Part I: New Words

• alien
  lai-wU-lai-daq
  ordinary-neg-ordinary-duck (laiwUlai = unusual)
• rocketship ci-pipa
  hardened-bird
• raygun
  ci-kaqu
  hardened-wildfire
• abduction
  mici-yunai
  person-steal
• flood
  da-lisa-da
  kill-river-bad
• boat
  ci-daq
  hardened-duck
• fungus
  lia-da moss-bad (note the underlying form here is liaq-da
• to make the sound of rushing water:
  Siasaha-sa
  X-go
  that first morpheme is a cranberry morpheme.
• healer/doctor
  mici-siq
  person-good
• the name of the disease
  ala-da
  rain-bad
• to feel sick
  yiyi-li-da
  begin-spirit-bad
• cure
  yaqu-siq
  give-good
• French fry
  palama-ya-pila
  stick-small-food
• handheld video game
  ha-wu-ha-piq
  know-neg-know-incarnate (hawuha = foolishness)
• couch potato
  didi-daq
  buttocks-duck
• advertisement
  ha-wu-ha-payu
  know-neg-know-speak vbr> (hawuha = foolishness)

Part II

• Ten new words, morphologically related to ten other words in Liqupa:
  • dupu-daq moon-duck; N. A crazy idea.
  • dupu-wali; moon-bottle' N. Moonshine, hooch
  • nala-wali, sand-bottle; N. Hourglass, clock
  • ha-wi-ha idea-beauituful-idea. interjection: hurray, great!
  • la-daq, cold-duck. N. a dislikable person
  • mu-daq; warm-duck. N. a likable person.
  • mu-la-mu-la warm-cold-warm-cold; Adj. boring, unpleasantly tepid.
  • mama-daq catch-duck. n. apprehended fugitive usually after committing a petty crime
  • daq-uma-sia duck-sound-ingest. v. to be gullable. Lit; to listen to the ducks
  • mai-uma-sia pine-sound-ingest. v. to meditate. lit. to listen to the pines.
  • muda-sia darkness-ingest, become evil
  • didi-piq buttocks-incarnate, fool
• Instances of homonymy
  • nuna: mountain
    nuna: broccoli
  • dusi yurt
    dusi summer time (dry season)
• Instances of polysemy
  • yaqu: to give;
    yaqu: hand (noun)
    yaqu: the number 5 or a group of 5 or fewer objects (from five fingers on the hand)
  • didi: to sit;
    didi: buttocks