Likely a tad bit too close. Perhaps Keim, Geim, Leim, Jeim, Reim, Teim? Liis
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April 29, 2015

Felniir Ahvus

Glif or gliif might be possible for 'embark.'  There aren't any canon words that start with gl, though, so it might be less common, and giif is 'sake.'  Don't know if that's important.

Veim for 'emerge' as a kind of opposite to 'fade,' which is feim.  The sounds /f/ and /v/ are made at the same part of the mouth with upper teeth and lower lip, but /v/ has voicing and /f/ is silent, which represents the essence of the words as coming into or out of being. 

i chose gliif because ge is a formation of a verb and lif is leave

@Felniir Ahvus that is an incredibly knowledgeable and interesting take on the words "Emerge" and "Fade", as well as (and especially) the pronunciations for "veim" and "feim". I'm all for "veim".

Again, Veim is too close to a homophone to feim. Being its potential opposite, it would definitely be incongruous to sound very similar to one another.

@Liis didn't see your earlier post. Whoops. Haha I suppose you're right; though one of the other suggestions you mentioned certainly would work.

I am still a large fan of 'Bokir' or 'Bokul', or perhaps 'Meyzut' or 'Meyzur' from 'Meyz'('come' or 'become'). 'Bokul' is interesting to me because of the potential connotations, rather than literal meaning. My favorite is 'Bokir' and I still think it best fits the meaning without being a compound. I think 'Meyz' is a great root word because of its double connotation of coming/arriving and becoming/changing. Hence my rudimentary attempts. Does anyone have suggestions using 'meyz'?

Meyzah, Meyzaan, Meyziir, Meyzaal

I think bokur or bokir are great. I really like meyzah too.

@Liis Those are great. I can really see "Meyzaan" or "Meyzah" working for emerge.

Mirkrilaar

For "to embark/set off", I looked at the origins of embark and they're French. They basically mean "in-ship". I think that this is solely ship related, so I was thinking more related to "Wundaak". Prehaps, "Wundaakah"? Alrhough this sounds a little strange to me. Or maybe "Gonahwundaak", literally meaning "start journey".

Also looking at the origins of "to emerge" and it seems very intruging on thw wording of it. From Latin, it means "become known", or "come to light". This seems like a very interesting way of wording it. Perhaps it may give others some ideas.

Just bringing these up again once more because it seems, coincidentally, that these are the only two left and these are the ones I brought up previously. If it doesn't exactly give some ideas, perhaps it may lay a foundation for some instead. I hope that these can at least spark something.

So I saw the struggle for the last to words. I would like to create some new words, and not words rooted from others, but the only thing I could come up with for "to emerge" would be Wun. It sounds a bit dragony. I used to light as help, but I don't think a connection to it would be good for the word itself. Wun seems liek a brand new words, because I used just a combination of a few letters which seemed right.

@ikaram,

Great job of trying to think of an original word though.

Altogether, my greatest interest lies with Meyzah and Bokir.

@Mirkrilaar about 'embark': Since a Dovah wouldn't likely be getting on a boat, maybe there is a word for 'lifting off the ground'/'taking flight' that could contribute as a root word or double meaning.

@Liis about 'emerge': I am definitely with you on that.