Lemizh / English dictionary
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xàjq.
to make mountains
xijqjmÌx. iceberg (⇐ ⇔ xÌjq jmÌxi. ‘mountain made from ice’)
Usage notes
Living in a relatively flat country, the Lemizh threshold for calling something a mountain is pretty low. Their highest mountain, at the border to Heptengia, is 2544 metres above sea level; for (say) Danubians, this is scarcely more than a hill.
Etymology
< NLem xojqt‑a
< LMLem xòjfust‑yr ‘rock’
< MLem xoujfust‑yr
< OLem xoujfust‑
< PLem *xowj‑fost‑ ‘rock, boulder (in a pasture or field)’, compound of
PLem *xowj‑ ‘pasture’
< PIE *h₂óu̯i‑s ‘sheep’
—and—
PLem *fost‑ ‘bone’
< PIE *h₃ésth₁
Cognates
Eng ewe; Lat os ‘bone’