Principles of Lexicon Construction

Here is the priority for construction of the lexicon:

1. Not-to-obscure or awkward English words of Latin roots. For example, "view" is used in place of "see" despite begin somewhat different, but "cachinate" is not used for "laugh" nor "mactate" for "kill" because they're so obscure that they would not benefit the goal of concurrent intelligibility.

2. Portmanteaus. Often, a word pair will be only tenuously etymologically related, and similar but different enough that each word can be bent into a compromise. "snev" for "snow" is an example. Although this is the second priority for word formation, portmanteaus are rare in practice because there are few word pairs that fit the criteria. Other examples are "hel" for "he", "fus" for "was", "noranga" for "orange", "pfeish" for "fish", "canasket" for "basket".

3. Anglization of Latin roots. Sometimes, a Latin root will have an approximate English word very close in meaning to the desired English word. For example, "cachinate" is too obscure and awkward to use directly for "laugh", but we have a nice approximant of "reír" with the English "risible". That means that the best word for "laugh" is "risiate".

4. Direct use of Spanish. English's Germanic roots shine when it comes to the most fundamental vocabulary. Since English words are used for the meat of the lexicon, then for balance Spanish words should be borrowed unadapted for basic articles, prepositions, determiners, etc. Often these words are common enough that they're already known to English speakers, or can be easily inferred. This also applies to a limited extent to non-basic but very common words such as "amigo", "cosa", and "casa".

5. Unadapted English borrowings. This is the last resort. Sometimes there are absolutely no cognates and the word isn't common enough for English speakers to know the Spanish translation. Some examples are "swim", "far", "maybe", "bed" (lectern is too tenuous), and "tide".

Accent marks are used only for "límon" and "codón".