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Grau(Gray in German), Misty, Gloom(y), Cloudy, Thunderstorm, Grizzled, Ashen(I think we have it, not sure), Smoke, Hoary, Elder, etc.

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I like the idea!

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maybe tornado, shark, boulder? sorry if these are basic

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I love this!! I need more gray bases in regards to NCLs.

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Um, cake’s name suggestions are actually just the names of various African languages… Not the words for “grey”… Jsyk…

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They do mean gray? Cawlan does mean gray in Somali

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Oh what the hell. That’s such an unreadable format. That’s so difficult and troubling to read.

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I didn't understand the format of it either it very much looks like the language names are name suggestions ;_;

.,,As for the base, I love the dark mask and dorsal

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Yeah that's my bad, I'll rewrite it

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A pewter combo base yes please

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I would call this base Tornado! Support!

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I found this thread after going down a massive rabbit hole and realised I might have something to contribute! These grey bases are absolutely gorgeous, and I just wanted to make a small correction/suggestion to one of the names that were proposed. I'm from South Africa and grew up learning Zulu, and while it's not my first language, I know a decent amount from school/everyday conversations and can use it in conversations. I wanted to suggest that you change the "impunga" suggestion to "mpunga" (without the "i") because impunga with the "i" is a very specific grammatical conjugation of the root "mpunga" that only appears in certain contexts.

Long-winded explanation:
Zulu nouns take different starting prefixes depending on their class; for example, most human words start with "u-" or "um-", while nonhuman nouns (objects, animals) tend to start with "i-". When a noun is modified with an adjective, the adjective usually takes a prefix that matches the noun - this process is what linguists call agreement. "Impunga" is a variant of the root word "mpunga" that you would only see on nouns that start with "i-". For example, "Ikati impunga" means "The grey cat". By contrast, if I wanted to say "the grey teacher" (weird one but I couldn't remember any other human words), that would be "utisha ompunga" - note the different starting prefix. To go even further, "grey hair" would be "izinwele ezimpunga" - another different prefix. "Mpunga" is the citation form of the word, and it's the main form students are taught in classrooms; you learn bomvu is red and mpunga is grey, and later on you learn their individual conjugations. Seeing "impunga" by itself felt a little weird to me, so I thought I'd leave a comment hahaha

This is a small suggestion on a thread that's more than 1 year old, but languages like Zulu are very underrepresented online, and accuracy matters. I'm also just a massive language nerd and love talking about linguistics. Hope this suggestion is helpful, or even just interesting

If anyone else here speaks Zulu please feel free to correct me or add your own two cents! I live overseas now and don't get to practice Zulu unfortunately, so there might be something I've forgotten :))

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No worries! I'll Def adjust it to be more respectful and accurate

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