List of Compounds in Different Languages

This list is intended to help IAL designers come up with good or interesting compounds.

Airplane

Fly-machine (Man, Jpn, Deu, Fin)

Ankle

Leg-neck (Jpn)

Automobile

Self-go-vehicle (Jpn)
Self-move (Eng)

Bat (animal)

Bald-mouse (Fra)
Flying-mouse (Ger)

Bicycle

Two-wheel (Eng)
Tread-wheel (Fin)

Boots

Long-shoes (Jpn)

Brass

Yellow-copper (Jpn)

Bronze

Blue-copper (Jpn)

Butterfly

Butter-fly (Eng)

Disaster

Big-difficult (Man, Jpn)
Bad-star (Grk, Eng)

Dragonfly

Dragon-fly (Eng)

Glove

Hand-bag (Jpn)

Hippopotamus

River-horse (Greek)

Milky Way

Winter-street (Swe)
Heaven-river (Jpn)
Bird's course (Fin)

Owl

Ghost-bird (Indonesian)

Planet

Wander-star (Chinese, Japanese)

Racoon

Wash-bear (Jpn, Deu, Fin)

Railroad

Iron-road (Spa, Ger, Fin, Frn, Swe)

Satellite

artificial-moon (Fin)

Seal (animal)

Sea-dog (Ger, Dut)

Sea Lion

Sea-lion (Eng, Esp, Por)

Size

Big-small (Man)
Big-ness (Jpn)

Snot

Nose-excrement (Jpn)

Sock

Under-shoes (Jpn)

Starfish

Star-fish (Eng)
Person-hand (Jpn)
Sea-star (Man, Esl, Por, Fin, Frn, Deu)

Sunflower

Sun-flower (Eng Fin)
Sun-circle (Jpn)

Thunder

God-sound (Jpn)

Toes

Foot-finger (Jpn)

Tomorrow

Bright-day (Man, Can, Jpn)

Train, railway

Long-snake (Kikamba)

Umbrella

Stop-rain (Frn)
Rain-shield (Fin)

Wrist

Arm-neck (Jpn)

Yesterday

Past-day (Jpn, Man)

Zebra

Stripe-horse (Jpn)
Stripe-donkey (Swa)

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