This wordlist was made with the game of Codenames in mind. I imagine it might serve as a resource for other word-based games and puzzles, such as Wordle, Hangman, Letter Soup etc.
What it contains:
- nouns in their dictionary form (nominative singular)
- mostly common nouns
- some proper names (with casing preserved)
- synonyms (see below for explanation)
What it DOESN'T contain:
- words with whitespace in them (equivalent examples in English would be: 'New York', 'ice cream')
This was made by intersecting two things:
- the new Interslavic wordlist
- the English, Polish, Czech and Russian wordlists from this repo
Download all the resources used to create this, put them in an input directory, rename them as they are called in the script and run it.
| standard spelling | etymological spelling | |
|---|---|---|
| with synonyms | nouns_standard_spelling_with_synonyms.txt | nouns_etymological_spelling_with_synonyms.txt |
| no synonyms | nouns_standard_spelling_no_synonyms.txt | nouns_etymological_spelling_no_synonyms.txt |
Latin alphabet is used.
The difference between standard vs. scientific/etymological can be found in resources about Interslavic (such as here: https://interslavic.fun/learn/orthography/).
In short, the standard one has less diacritics. The choice of spelling is largely a matter of preference.
A feature of Interslavic is that it has many synonyms. For example, aerodrom, aeroport, letišče are all valid words for "airport".
The wordlist with synonyms contains them separated by slashes:
aerodrom / aeroport / letišče
The one without synonyms will contain the first element only:
aerodrom
Interslavic is a language meant to be understood by speakers of many Slavic languages without prior learning. This means that you can play a game in it with people who have never even heard of the language. Exposing them to synonyms will facilitate understanding. (Although in a game like Codenames, it also has some disadvantages.)
- verify if the synonyms are grouped correctly
- for pairs of gendered nouns (
kuhar,kuharka), leave only one of them
When I first runned the script, I included English in the langs_to_merge_by. This led to an incorrect grouping: čas / raz / vrěme ('raz' means 'time' as in 'how many times?', the other two mean 'time' as in 'time is passing').
It also grouped gendered nouns together: kuhar / kuharka (male and female cook, respectively). Now they are separate.