GLOSSARY AND PRONUNCIATION
NOTE: Words added in alphabetical order as relevant to the story. Pronunciation for names can be found in a different chapter.)
ABASSĘN (pronounced AH-BASH-SHEN): Please
AHAN (pronounced: AH-HAN): Father
-AHANĘRIŞ: your father
-AHANĘRIN: my father
-AHANĘR : His/her/our father
(suffixes: R, RIS, RIN, are markers of possession)
BA : Son/Daughter
BAR: Son of
-BARĀ: Daughter of
(addition of the letter 'ā' to suffix when referring to female gender terms e.g. IHANĘRINĀ : my mother.)
BIŁ HESNÖ (pronounced BEAT-HEY- SH-NOO): Hurry up/Quick up. (direct translation is fast up)
BIŁ (pronounced BEAT): Up
BILŁĘN (pronounced BILL-TEN): Down
BILŁĘN HESNÖ: Slow down
ĘVDĘN (pronounced EHV-DEN): Yes
-shortened form ĘV is more common
FAJĘR (pronounced FAH-JEH-R): dawn/day
-FAJĘRŁA (pronounced FAH-JER-TAH): morning
HĘR (pronounced HEH-RUH): and
HESNÖ (pronounced HEY-SH-NOO): Fast
-HESNÖ'BILŁĘN: Slow
(inverted colon used to form compound nouns)
IHAN (pronounced EE-HAN): Mother
LEFLIŁI (pronounced LEY-FLEE-TEE): Night
-LEFLIL (pronounced LEYF-LIL): Evening
LENĀ (promounced LEY-NAH): Lady
-LENĘRĀ: Ladies
(suffix ĘR used to turn a word from singular to plural.)
TAHĘR (pronounced TAH-HER): Shame
-TAHĘRŞIZ: Shameless
(suffix şiz indicates absence of something. e.g: IHANŞIZ: Motherless. AHANŞIZ: Fatherless. As a word ŞIZ means LESS)
-TAHĘRRIN: Sorry/My apologies (literal translation: MY SHAME. NB: Suffix RIN, RIS, R, marking possession result in double Rs creating a harder sounding rolled 'r').
TÖFĘSŁIV (pronounced TOO-FEH-SH-TIV): Winter festival marking the end of the cold months.
-TÖ (pronounced TOO): Cold
-FĘSŁ (pronounced: FEH-SH-TUH): Party/Festival
-IV (pronounced EVE): Month
nb: Seasons divided into six month blocks of cold and warm months, which are divided in two cold and colder, and warm and warmer. No actual
names for seasons.
YĘSĘL (pronounced YEH-SHELL): Love
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