adjectivization

article by @bwabam

how I got these

what I did for all of these words is that I found the neo-latin word for it and added a suffix.

I only added -al and -ar because words like lycopersica doesn’t sound good as an adjective, so, no declension stuff is in this.

the reason that I added ‘-al’ and not ‘-alis’ (and ‘-ar’ not ‘-aris’) is because we have words like dual and not dualis.

of course, I am not an expert at this, and these probably have a lot wrong

also my attempts at IPA for them suck

Pineapple becomes ananasal

A guess at the pronounciation (in IPA) is: /ˌæ.nǝˈne.zǝl/

example:

5 year old Bob was growing fond of pineapples, but we new his ananasal love wouldn’t last.

Tomato becomes lycopersical

A guess at the pronounciation (haha tomaytos tomahtos) is: /ˌlai.koˈpɚ.sɪˌkəl/

Heinz ketchup is a great business, and their lycopersical success is a whole other thing entirely.

Potato becomes solanal-tuberosal

A guess at the pronounciation is: /ˈso.ləˌnəl ˌtub.ɚˈo.səl/

Lays potato chips makes some great fries, I hope they make another one of those solanal-tuberosal new types soon!

Venus flytrap becomes dionaeal-muscipal

A guess at the pronounciation is: /ˌdai.əˈne.əl mənˈskip.əl/

Today in antland, we mourn the dionaeal-munscipal death of our close freind, Flyfy McFly.

Morning glory is convolvulacal

A guess at the pronounciation is: /canˈvol.vəl.əˌcəl/

We woke up in the morning, looked out at the field, and were amazed by the convolvulaceal glory.

Tulip is, simply, tulipal

A guess at the pronounciation is: /ˈtu.lɪp.əl/

The local florist surprised us with his tulipal knowledge.

California poppy is eschscholzal-californal

A guess at the pronounciation is: /ɛˈʃɒlt.siˌəl cæ.lɪˈfoɹˌnəl/

A new criminal came to the Californian jail for a escholzal-californal violation.

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