Pataleka
pataleka
- (n.) older sibling of the opposite sex (the older sister of a boy, or the older brother of a girl)
Ei ie pataleka oi Nátali.
“I am Natalie’s older brother.”
Notes: Continuing with sibling words, pataleka is how one would describe my relationship to my little sister, Natalie. I am 29, and my little sister is 9, so I am her pataleka, and she, in turn, is my nakanaka.
Pataleka is a compound of two words that I have no introduced yet. Oops! It’s just so hard. So many words lead to so many other words… And I’ll never be done. It’s never done, a conlang. Even if one decides on a fixed vocabulary, speaking it continues. Take Glide, for example. It has a fixed set of forms, but you can look at it for hours (pretty cool to, actually). That’s part of the fun of language. Just keeps going.