Speech words
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I am a giant nerd and made a list of all the Speech words that have been used in this series from Books 1-9 (I think I got all of them) which I will now share with you. Keep in mind that I only compiled a list of words in the Speech; I left out things like the Mason's Word whose true pronunciation is never mentioned.
Please correct a definition if I've got it wrong! Especially hwanthaet, I was at a complete loss how to define it.
afállonë: the name in the Speech of the lost city of Atlantis.
allaire-nai: translated at "High Road"; meaning someone is not only off-planet, but also away from one's usual mindset or psychology.
aresh-hav: acronym; implies "lost" -- lost as much to hope as to the powers of darkness, and presumed to be beyond redemption until the Powers That Be should intervene directly; also implies that the intervention could be fatal for the world's inhabitants, if the Lone One could not be otherwise dislodged.
asdurrafrith: the term for a species that hasn't yet openly met alien species or don't yet believe in them
astahfrith: syllabic acronym for a world where wizardry can be practiced openly*.
dai: greeting/goodbye; from context, I take it to mean something like "hey"; it's sometimes used as a farewell, perhaps like the Italian "ciao"?
dai stihéh: greeting/goodbye; first person plural form of dai stihó.
dai stihó: literally "go well"; a polite Speech form of "hello" that can also be used as a farewell.
emiwai: "cavity"; a geological feature.
hrasht: "cousin"; what wizards call each other as they are all relatives under the Art.
hwanthaet (intratemporal syntax): a feeling of insistence caused by a timeloop proximity syndrome, which is when someone or ones are "repeatedly positioned near the effect end of a timeloop when [they] were also involved in the cause, but before the cause has happened, or when it's just starting to execute."
hwatha-t: "cavity"; a hole in one's tooth caused by decay.
madreen rua: literally "little red dog"; word for "fox" used in Ireland.
mathrára: "fox."
merthakte: undefined swear word.
mochteroof: something halfway between a seeming and a full shape-change which manifests as a 'costume' that will fool sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch.
pont: "five"; adjective form.
rijakh: undefined swear word.
sevarfrith: syllabic acronym for "a world where wizardry must be conducted under cover."
shafath: a single word in the Speech, a fragment of a longer expression.
shafait': verb form of shafath, "to use a fragment."
thelefeh/thelef': meaning "friend" -- a more intimate word than "cousin."
uvseith: "moribund," or that a creature/object/species has only a short time to survive.
*there's a discrepancy in AWoM where on page 69 of the hardcover it's used like that definition, but on page 539 it's used like sevarfrith. WH establishes sevarfrith as undercover wizardry though, so I think page 539 of AWoM is just an error. /nerd
I am a giant nerd and made a list of all the Speech words that have been used in this series from Books 1-9 (I think I got all of them) which I will now share with you. Keep in mind that I only compiled a list of words in the Speech; I left out things like the Mason's Word whose true pronunciation is never mentioned.
Please correct a definition if I've got it wrong! Especially hwanthaet, I was at a complete loss how to define it.
afállonë: the name in the Speech of the lost city of Atlantis.
allaire-nai: translated at "High Road"; meaning someone is not only off-planet, but also away from one's usual mindset or psychology.
aresh-hav: acronym; implies "lost" -- lost as much to hope as to the powers of darkness, and presumed to be beyond redemption until the Powers That Be should intervene directly; also implies that the intervention could be fatal for the world's inhabitants, if the Lone One could not be otherwise dislodged.
asdurrafrith: the term for a species that hasn't yet openly met alien species or don't yet believe in them
astahfrith: syllabic acronym for a world where wizardry can be practiced openly*.
dai: greeting/goodbye; from context, I take it to mean something like "hey"; it's sometimes used as a farewell, perhaps like the Italian "ciao"?
dai stihéh: greeting/goodbye; first person plural form of dai stihó.
dai stihó: literally "go well"; a polite Speech form of "hello" that can also be used as a farewell.
emiwai: "cavity"; a geological feature.
hrasht: "cousin"; what wizards call each other as they are all relatives under the Art.
hwanthaet (intratemporal syntax): a feeling of insistence caused by a timeloop proximity syndrome, which is when someone or ones are "repeatedly positioned near the effect end of a timeloop when [they] were also involved in the cause, but before the cause has happened, or when it's just starting to execute."
hwatha-t: "cavity"; a hole in one's tooth caused by decay.
madreen rua: literally "little red dog"; word for "fox" used in Ireland.
mathrára: "fox."
merthakte: undefined swear word.
mochteroof: something halfway between a seeming and a full shape-change which manifests as a 'costume' that will fool sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch.
pont: "five"; adjective form.
rijakh: undefined swear word.
sevarfrith: syllabic acronym for "a world where wizardry must be conducted under cover."
shafath: a single word in the Speech, a fragment of a longer expression.
shafait': verb form of shafath, "to use a fragment."
thelefeh/thelef': meaning "friend" -- a more intimate word than "cousin."
uvseith: "moribund," or that a creature/object/species has only a short time to survive.
*there's a discrepancy in AWoM where on page 69 of the hardcover it's used like that definition, but on page 539 it's used like sevarfrith. WH establishes sevarfrith as undercover wizardry though, so I think page 539 of AWoM is just an error. /nerd
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Date: 2010-10-23 05:01 pm (UTC)oh man that discrepancy bothered me so much when I read it, I was like uuur noooooooo confusion because I actually use astahfrith and sefarfrith in discussions about fantasy worlds.
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Date: 2010-10-25 07:32 pm (UTC)I'm no geologist, myself, but I'd assume emiwai refers to some specific type of cave, or one with particular features.