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Want to generate lots of ideas for words for your language?
1. Download this spreadsheet (about 524KB):
2. Fill in cells A7 through A13 to indicate which suffixes (if any) indicate part of speech in your language (e.g., "u" for verb in Dublex). (Or copy B7 through B13 over to use the Dublex suffixes.)
3. Then fill in cells A16 through A415 translating each of the 400 roots of Dublex into your language.
4. The spreadsheet will automatically generate 4861 compound words from these roots. Use as many or as few of them as you like in your language.
To quickly test it, type in cell A16 the word for "alphabet" in your language. Type in cell A17 the word for "bovine (cow/bull)". Then check cell 418. For instance, if you type in "glyph" and "moo", row 418 says:
mooglyph bacarbac n. bovine+alphabet boustrophedon -- a writing system in which the direction of lines is alternated, usually compared to the movement of an ox plough JEFL
I tested this with Excel 2000 on Windows 2000. Let me know if it works for you using different versions of either.
If it doesn't work for you, let me know your OS and spreadsheet, and try copying column A and pasting it over itself using Edit / Paste Special / Formulas.
Though the file has an XLS extension (so that Windows will treat it as an Excel spreadsheet), it is actually just a tab-delimited text file. You may be able to use it in your favorite other spreadsheet as is or with minor tweaking.
Over 50 people have contributed definitions to this spreadsheet, by playing the Dublex Game. (Their initials are given after their definitions.) You can play the Dublex Game here:
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