Evangaline clucked in disapproval at the vaguely-translucent Aunt standing between her and the fireplace; the Aunt, in turn, shook her head at her.
“Who,” Evangaline asked carefully, “thought that this particular tradition was a good idea for our family?”…
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lilfluff asked for words for games, and from there for words for winning and losing.
Winning! And losing…
The Calenyena have three sets of words for winning and losing: in games for fun, in games with a prize/in a single battle, and in a large war or conflict.
Pol is an archaic word which once meant to fall. (Falling, as from a goat, is now duddie, from Dudiedah, tumble). It now means to lose shamefully – where you could win something.
Pyuh is for when one suffers small, unimportant loss. We were playing Monopoly and I lost.
Darnietda comes from an old word meaning to slip and fall (into the river) It now means “to lose” in a large way, for instance, “The Bitrani lost the war.”
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Tea is a new-world discovery for the Bitrani and Calenyen both, found growing in the far south and especially on the southern islands of Reiassan.
At the initial stages of colonization, there were Calenyena (Ideztozhyuh) doing much of the hard labor of clearing the land; they were the ones who first discovered the bitter leaves of the bush could be stewed into a kind of drink.
They called it dyil, at first, and then dil. The Bitrani called the plant nevenah and the drink nevenanan, and from that the Calenyena began calling the drink nev. In modern parlance, dil is the plant, and nev the drink.
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chanter_greenie asked about music!
In keeping with the idea of god-words (from alder, earlier today), we look at the Tabersi (Proto-Bitrano) god/dess Alivetta/Alibetto.
This deity, one of a collection of dual-natured or dual-gendered gods in the old Tabersi pantheon, inspired the arts. Alivetta/Alibetto began as the overseer of all arts, but by the time of the Gods Purge had long since been relegated only to music, and often only to instrumental music.
Alittao is the art of instrumental music in Bitrani; in Calenyena, this becomes Litvaano, music (as played), and Libbaano, music as sung.
♪ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪
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inventrix asked for books, which got handled a while back:
turnie, noun, book
turniete, 2 books
turniebe, a shelf of books
turnine, some books
So I figured I’d handle shelf and library!
Library, first, is a book-place, Turnietan. This originally referred to any depository of books. Now, a bookseller is a Liezturnie, Seller, of book and a library is a Turnietapon, a book place, scholarly.
And in the library there are shelves!
A shelf is a birtun, from a word which originally meant ledge; a bookshelf is a birtunturnie.
A collective plural of shelves is usually considered a bookcase, unit of shelves. If you collectivize that, birtunbebe, you end up with a slang word for a large gathering of shelves, a storeroom.
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Today’s word is thorn alder, because I can!
In further proving that my Reiassani persona is a Bitrani transplant to Calenta (tall, light-skinned, short hair, prefers less bright color combinations), the alders, including the thorn alders, exist on Reiassan almost entirely in the borderlands between South and North.
Starting with the taxonomic classification: Although I haven’t determined what the Reiassani version of Kingdom-Phylum-Class-Order-Family-Genus-Species is, but I know that they use {Arran/West-Coast} for such things.
The Alder belongs to the family of spear-leaf trees, adavijamin, where adavi is “spear-blade” and “jamin” is “leaf”. In that family, they belong to the mainer sub-family, “mainer” meaning “grove” or “family group, tribe.”
The Alders themselves keep the name of a goddess otherwise forgotten in the God Purge: the goddess is Talaezia; alders are Taazaa in the everyday speech.
The thorn alder grows shorter and bushier than many alder trees, and a thorn-alder grove is not a fun place to spend a lot of time. Their thorns are long, sharp, and while not poisonous, their pricks can get infected very quickly and easily.
And a thorn in Calenyen is linie, from the Bitrani linnia, making my Calenyena name Lin Taazaalinie.
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Is anyone up for reading over a 5300-word short story between now and 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time?
I don’t work up to the deadline or /anything/
Done! Thanks, thnidu!
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Well, looking through my mental wish list, my pinterest “clothes” file, and the stuff I have on my to-sew…
Sort of like, um. Prairie waif? Goth-with-colors? Knit amish hippy?
layers of tissue-thin shirts, often with too-big necklines and def. with sleeves over my hands, down to my hips, over skirts that are fitted or fittedish to the knees and then SWISH out in a pile of petticoats.
If I had Meentik unutu (and huamu) that is what I would look like every day. Except the days I wore those shirts or loose shirts that go swish over jeans.
Yeah, my mental images never include shoes, either. Too bad I live in the frozen north.
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kelkyag asked for Agriculture words — domesticated plants and their fruits. I got a brief start on that!
Food! Always important.
We already have belenuza, potato-parsnip (or earth-apple) and Lok, meal.
The first grain found by and eventually cultivated by the proto-Calenyena was barley: toppot, /tōp ‘pōt/ a word whose origins are lost in time. Later came wheat, tuz, /təz/ originally toppot-tuz. Tuz is a word that meant pale and can still be found in the word datuz, meaning “an unhappy surprise;” a pale-making.
Rice was borrowed from the proto-Arrans, the west-coast people, along with the name, corbin –> korbin
The long-grained black rice-like grain that was found on Reiassan was called Reiassannon’s Rice, voRiesa korbin.
And if you’ve noticed I slid in a possessive, you’d be correct.
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