Triparic German Words

Respelling Exercise

German	Shawn	Alan	Carrie	Comments from Shawn
gehen	gähen	gehen	gäen	Looks like we all agree on keeping the long "A" sound, but how to spell it. I considered dropping the "h"; Carrie went the distance.
Schule	schul	Schule	schül	No particular note.
kommen	kommen	komen	komen	If I wanted to keep the pronunciation I should have spelt it "kamen". It has a German short o in the original.
lernen	lernen	lernen	[skipped]	Carrie missed this one; looks like Alan and I were pretty comfy.
sprechen	sprecken	språchen	sprechen	Did you two both intend the /ch/ sound there? I think Alan said that may have been a mistake on his.
schreiben	schriven	schræben	schræben	You two kept this one intact and I changed it, which is not the pattern.
Brief	brif	Brief	brif	Broad agreement, though Alan kept the "ie" spelling, though he dropped it in Tier and Bier.
arbeiten	arbiten	arbäten	arbæten	Whoops. We all diverged there ...
groß	grosse	gross	gräs	I have a pattern of liking adjectives to have a vowel at the end; I added one here and to "rot" ...
Firma	firm	Firma	firma	... whereas here I dropped the vowel so as to have a consonant noun.
Herr	här	Hår	her	No particular note.
aber	aber	aber	ãber	Interesting move by Carrie there.
spät	spät	spät	sp?t	I wonder what Carrie thinks on learning that the ä is the same in both languages.
sein	sæhen	[skipped]	sän	Carrie elided the h here as she did in gehen, but changed the vowel.
Bruder	bruder	bröder	bruder	I'm interested in where Alan got this vowel.
leben	leben	liben	läben	Divergence.
Buch	buck	Buc	buch	/ch/ there, Carrie? Interesting.
nach Hause	nak hŏse	nac Haus	nach hŏs	For consistency with others, I should have dropped the -e on Hause here.
Frau	frŏ	frŏ	frŏ	Consensus!
heißen	hæssen	hæssen	hæsen	Close. Carrie hates those geminate consonants.
wohnen	wonen	wohnen	wonen	Carrie and I dropped the silent H.
Mutter	muter	Muter	mãter	Interesting. Looks like Carrie is splitting the diff on the vowel between this and Romance.
lesen	lesen	lisen	läsen	Same divergence as "leben".
Kind	kind	kind	kænd	Did not see that coming, Carrie.
singen	singen	sängen	singen	Again, I wonder where Alan got that vowel.
laut	lŏd	lŏt	lŏt	Here I go liking final voiced consonants again.
Mann	man	man	man	Consensus!
Tag	tag	tag	tag	Consensus!
schön	schön	schon	schön	Close. And I considered Alan's variant.
sehen	sehen	sihen	sehen	Alan and I keep the leben/lesen pattern but Carrie takes a different angle than she did with those, and furthermore she keeps the intervocalic -h- which she dropped on gehen.
Katze	katz	kache	kati	I go for "consonantal noun" again; Alan and Carrie each do something unusual but cool.
kaufen	kŏfen	kŏfen	kŏfen	Consensus!
rot	rote	rŏd	rot	I vocalize an adjective again. Alan's is interesting.
Auto	Auto	ŏdo	ŏto	I found this one instructive. I treated it as a recent import word and preserved the "au" spelling. I certainly considered Carrie's option, but at the last moment decided to keep the "au" as sort of a trial balloon for loanwords.
Mädchen	mädkin	mädzen	mädin	I considered mädin (which is in fact the current Triparic word for it); I dunno why I felt like putting in the K and adhering a little more closely to the original on this one. On further reflection I would just say mädin.
eßen	essen	essen	ezen	Curious about Carrie's change there rather than just "esen" as we might have guessed from her "hæsen".
Apfel	apel	appel	afel	Whee.
Hut	hut	håt	hut	Alan spells this like the English translation is pronounced.
Kirche	kircke	kirke	kirke	Pretty close. I evidently don't mind "ck" so much, but I'm not wedded to it.
Student	student	student	studet	Is that a typo, Carrie? If not, what's the logic? It's interesting.
drinken	drinken	tränken	tringen	Divergence.
Bier	bir	bir	bir	Consensus!
haben	haben	haven	häben	Hmmm.
alt	alte	alt	alta	Adjectives. Vowels. Dammit.
Dom	dom	dom	dom	Consensus!
Tür	tor	tør	tãr	Divergence.
Stadt	statt	stad	stad	I should have seized the chance to end the word in a voiced sound.
Woche	wocke	wock	voche	Hmmm.
Löwe	löwe	lŏwe	löv	Huh.
König	könig	könig	könig	Consensus!
Tier	tir	tir	tir	Consensus!
schenken	schenken	schinken	schenken	Close. Any reasoning, Alan?
Ball	ball	ball	bal	Carrie. Geminates.
Eltern	elters	eltern	eltern	So mine is weird here because I know the word is plural ("parents"), and given that, I said "Triparic plurals are in -s, dammit". If I didn't know it was a plural I probably would be the same as both of yours.
geben	geben	giben	gäben	Hey look, leben/lesen pattern!
Vater	fater	väder	pater	Star Wars joke, Alan? Mine is actually pronounced like the German (since German "v" = /f/ word-initial) and Carrie said "damn your Germanic" on this one.
vorlesen	vorlesen	vorlisen	forlesen	Interesting that Carrie changed vowel from plain "lesen" here. I considered going "for" as well (see Vater above); not sure why I didn't.
neu	nø	nø	nü	Alan and I spelled it as the German pronunciation. Carrie went in a more French direction (or did she think that's how it's pronounced in Deutsch?)
Fenster	fenster	fenstro	fenser	Is the dropped -t- a typo, Carrie, or what's the logic? Alan has done with this what I was doing with some Latin 3rd declension nouns, interestingly.
Mantel	mantel	mantel	mantel	Consensus!
Arm	arm	arm	arm	Consensus!
Familie	familya	fámil	famil	Mine is pretty close to the German pronunciation. You two are on the same page. Why the acute, Alan? By the rules we've been trying to write, it will be accented there anyhow, or did you think otherwise?

Shawn: student, drinken, bir, haben, alte, dom, tor, statt, wocke, löwe, könig, tir, schenken, ball, elters, geben, fater, vorlesen, nø, fenster, mantel, arm, familya

Alan: student, tränken, bir, haven, alt, dom, tør, stad, wock, lŏwe, könig, tir, schinken, ball, eltern, giben, väder, vorlisen, nø, fenstro, mantel, arm, fámil

Carrie: studet, tringen, bir, häben, alta, dom, tãr, stad, voche, löv, könig, tir, schenken, bal, eltern, gäben, pater, forlesen, nü, fenser, mantel, arm, famil

Tables of common endings

Masculines

Ending	Example Words	Triparik Ideas
-anz	Schwanz, Tanz, Glanz
-ast	Ballast, Palast, Morast
-ich	Teppich, Estrich
-us	Campus, Exitus, Orgasmus
-eich	Teich, Deich, Bereich
-ig	König, Honig, Essig
-eig	Zweig, Teig, Steig
-ant	Elefant, Dilettant, Gigant
-ismus*	Extremismus, Kapitalismus, Alkoholismus
-ling*	Schwächling, Feigling, Rohling

Rows marked with * are suffixes.

Feminines

Ending	Example Words	Triparik Ideas
-e	Seite, Zeile, Bete
-sis	Basis, Apsis, Dosis
-sion	Version, Dimension, Illusion
-ur~	Kultur, Natur, Tortur
-anz~	Eleganz, Toleranz, Ignoranz
-enz~	Konferenz, Existenz, Präsenz
-ei*	Brauerei, Trinkerei
-tion*	Funktion, Reduktion, Station
-heit*	Sicherheit, Freiheit, Dummheit
-ung*	Landung, Ableitung, Beobachtung
-tät*	Universität, Relativität, Aktivität
-schaft*	Mannschaft, Freundschaft, Wissenschaft

Rows with asterisks are productive suffixes in German today. Rows with tildes are "semi/formerly" productive.

Neuters

Ending	Example Words	Triparik Ideas
-il	Ventil, Textil, Profil
-ma	Schema, Thema, Rheuma
-um	Album, Imperium, Parfum
-ent	Talent, Dokument, Element
-ett	Etikett, Ballett, Sonnett
-ier	Papier, Tier, Bier
-iv	Adjektiv, Archiv, Stativ
-on	Lexikon, Hormon, Mikrophon
-tum*	Eigentum, Heiligtum, Wachstum
-lein*	Fräulein, Männlein
-chen*	Frauchen, Mädchen

Rows with asterisks are productive suffixes in German today. Rows with tildes are "semi/formerly" productive.