Current Proposals
Everything on this page is provisional unless explicitly stated otherwise. The purpose is to preserve active ideas without allowing them to masquerade as canon.
-iz: make or cause to become
A productive -iz suffix is under consideration for a causative / factitive sense: make X, cause to become X, render X.
Examples under discussion:
hardiz— make hard / hardenmashiniz— mechanize / make machine-based
This would be semantically distinct from committed -isk:
hardisk— associated with or characterized by hardnesshardiz— actually make something hard
No commitment has been made yet.
-te: ordinal marker
A compact ordinal marker -te is under consideration. It attaches to the final numeral element:
ennte— firsttvaate— secondþriite— thirdattatigg tvaate— eighty-second
The attraction is complete regularity with no special first/second/third forms. Ordinals remain outside the Reference until this is explicitly bound.
Provisional roots
Recently proposed forms include:
| Candidate | Proposed sense |
|---|---|
himmel | sky / heaven |
brott | crime |
lag | law |
dom | judgment / judge |
hedr | heroic glory |
ham | hammer |
kraft | power; one half of a proposed semantic distinction |
makt | power; the other half of that distinction |
malm | metal |
The earlier exact semantic split between kraft and makt was not preserved in the recovered notes, so it should not be reconstructed by guesswork. The distinction can be re-established through later use.
Earlier provisional vocabulary remains listed on the Core Roots page.
Worship and church vocabulary
The ordinary words for worship and church remain open. dirk, durk, and kirk were considered but were not accepted. They should not be treated as provisional defaults merely because they appeared in discussion.
Loanword handling
The working policy has loosened from strict mandatory normalization. Foreign vocabulary may be naturalized into native spelling, but recognizable source-like spelling or pronunciation may also be retained when that makes more sense.
The important boundary is that foreign material does not silently rewrite the rules for native Nordsippisk roots. Loan treatment is a lexical judgment call rather than a single automatic algorithm.