{"id":96,"date":"2010-12-17T06:37:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T05:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/?p=96"},"modified":"2010-12-04T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T19:39:56","slug":"high-eolic-word-of-the-day-callit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"High Eolic word of the day: callit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/W_HE_019_callit.mp3\">callit<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (noun), definite form <em><strong>callingut<\/strong><\/em>: snow.<\/p>\n<p><em>ta civa <strong>callit<\/strong>-es ta-t\u00c3\u00a1hendangut<\/em><br \/>\n<small>NEG COP snow-ESS last-winter.EL<\/small><br \/>\n&#8220;there was no snow last winter&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>callit<\/em> belongs to a class of nouns that have an irregular definite form, namely <em>callingut<\/em> (rather than *<em>callitut<\/em>). Many nouns ending in <em>-t<\/em> behave in this way &#8211; such as <em>arut<\/em> &#8216;star&#8217;, definite <em>arundut<\/em>, or <em>nd\u00c3\u00a1rt<\/em> &#8216;ram&#8217;, definite <em>nd\u00c3\u00a1revut<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, <em>callit<\/em> is one of the two words with the general meaning &#8216;snow&#8217; in High Eolic. The other is <em>arn\u00c3\u00bas<\/em>. More accurately, <em>arn\u00c3\u00bas<\/em> means &#8216;mountaintop&#8217;, but it can also refer to snow visible on mountains in the distance. In some dialects, however, it is the word for &#8216;snow&#8217; more generally &#8211; or, more specifically, snow lying on the ground (as opposed to snowflakes falling down from clouds).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>callit (noun), definite form callingut: snow. ta civa callit-es ta-t\u00c3\u00a1hendangut NEG COP snow-ESS last-winter.EL &#8220;there was no snow last winter&#8221; callit belongs to a class of nouns that have an irregular definite form, namely callingut (rather than *callitut). Many nouns &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/?p=96\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[9,11,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}