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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
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aelvthal: aesthant, from aelva “beauty” + thal “functional niche”. arĂdamaen: dusk; from arĂdan “sun” + maen “fall” arĂdaqerach: laser; from arĂdan “sun” + qerach “lightning”. éändrycmesi: enlightenment, from andra “fire” + cmĂ©sà “kiss”. ictoch: (expl.) “glitch”; colloquially, any annoying thing that you need to work on. klaith: shadow; shade cast by a radiation-source. laranlĂr:
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A couple of words that are likely to be relevant in explaining many of the complexities of explaining to the audience the background needed to understand Black Panther, when we get there: mahamonĂĂ«: Colony; literally “made-polity”. Applies specifically to polities created ex nihilo on terra nullius; there are variants of
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leirlaras: (lit. “mist-word(s)”). A term referring specifically to words, phrases, paragraphs, or even entire works deliberately so constructed as to be void of meaning, misleading, or obfuscatory. Depending on circumstances, it may be pejorative (when used to describe a collocutor’s evasions, for example), or complimentary (describing a skillful
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maharargyr: maker’s merit; from mahav (make, maker) and argyr (quantized merit), the excellence which one accrues from a worthy creation. Note: refers only to the excellence itself, rather than the repute derived from it. This latter is mahadársúnar, from mahav and dársúnar (glory), which in turn is from daráv
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tramorán an-enlét: (lit. “red gift”) Related in concept to the trafidúr an-enlét (“blue gift”), that social manipulation in which a gift that cannot be balanced by the recipient with an equal gift is used to create a favor-debt, the tramorán an-enlét is an attractive gift designed to cause harm by
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So, we had already established one word for a celestial body. As you’ll recall, that would be: ashĂĂ«l: star From there, ancient astronomers gave us: affĂĂ«nĂel: (from traäffiĂ«n ashĂĂ«l, “dancing star”), planet; and chalĂĂ«l: (from trachálporis ashĂĂ«l, “circling star”), moon. And slightly less ancient ones provided: alĂ©lazik: (from traälĂ©l
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trakháln ulalath: (lit. “painful ignorance”); the things you don’t know that can hurt you. Originally Military Service slang, before entering into general usage.