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cagshálvéth: (lit. “sewer-food”; from cagshálla “sewer” + evéth “food”; the former itself from cagál “shit” + shálla “pipe”) a derogatory term applied to yeast-based and (especially) mycogenic foodstuffs, typically by outworld dirtsiders who haven’t figured out yet that a larger circle of life doesn’t mean that they aren’t eating
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lĂänd-khadár: vampire (lit. “flame-stealer”); mythologically, a malicious, semi-corporeal creature which drains its victims of volition and the capacity for choice, before going on to consume the remainder of their thoughts and memories and leave them empty. In the modern day, considered a metaphor for entropy-as-depression.
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caĂĽlgyrelef: compromise; agreement in which neither party receives what they want (from tratracalma traĂĽlgyr elefĂ, lit. “least worthless/unfavorable contract”, i.e., a bad deal but the least bad deal possible). sĂ©delĂ©lef: mutually beneficial agreement; agreement in which both parties succeed (from trasĂ©delĂ©kith elefĂ, lit. “mutually pleasing contract”.) Traditionally, a
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traäzik ulalath: literally “stony ignorance”, (or for the convenience of Tellurian readers, “stone stupid”, even though the backing metaphor is entirely different), the very special kind of stupidity self-inflicted by and on the extremely loyal, be it to contract, person, cause, or necessity, characterized by making extreme deeds and ludicrous
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xatĂrár el rĂłtanĂ: (“do the needful”) 1. (common) A request to do that which is necessary or required in a given context, with the respectful implication that the other party is trusted to understand the needful and operate autonomously. 2. (rare) A request to do that which is understood without
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demĂ©v: (from old Cestian demĂ©thĂr, “wizard”) skilled practitioner, professional, one of notable expertise in a given area. Casual descriptions of such expertise can be given using tra- compounds; however, various formalizations of these exist both general, such as alathdemĂ©v (loremaster), elĂ©fdemĂ©v (obligator, “oath-master”), haindemĂ©v (warmaster), and mahademĂ©v (craftsmaster); and specific
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rian: sword; blade used in war. teirian: (from teir “honor” + rian) The “honorable sword”, the longer first-sword of the eldraeic Two Swords, wielded in the swordsman’s main hand. A traditionally-made teirian is an elongated S-curve five to six feet in length, of which two feet are the hilt, enabling
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ka idaseir qané trasunael xasessqár!: “bugger1 the seers!”; common expletive phrase, originating in Jussovy, used to respond to statements of poor odds, predictions of failure or certain death, claims that something is a doomed venture, a suicide mission, impossible, etc., indicating the speaker’s determination to go through with it
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This wasn’t what I intended to post next, but I’m still working on the “fleet carriers” post. In the meantime, have some more words. So, among the basic words in a language, certainly for chemists, are those for various substances, and this is as true in Eldraeic as
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lechné: sweat, perspiration; technically, lechné refers to any fluid intentionally used to carry heat away by evaporation, and so cooling water for planetary power reactors, liquid hydrogen coolant used for evaporative hull cooling, and so forth, can all be described as lechné, as well as the original referent, biological secretions
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maland: ash; from mal “past tense” + andra “fire”. malandazik: cinder, clinker; from maland “ash” + azik “stone”. syln i-malandazik: cinderpearl; an organic gemstone produced by the fungimals of Resplendent Exponential Vector, primarily from metallic and semiconductive elements in its extensive volcanic ash fields.
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The two kinds of night… ashĂĂ«mĂşr: “starlit night”; the night-half of the cycle in that half of the year in which SĂşnáris is in opposition to Lumenna, and the sky remains in twilight throughout the night, never becoming truly dark. From ashĂĂ«l “star” + mĂşrna “night”. falsamĂşr: “black night”; the night-half