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Another word for Edally / Reiassan
Eseme put herself in Textiles House, so I needed a title.
Okay, this one is going to get a bit complicated.
We’re looking for a broad term for textiles-maker.
In the looking for this work, we found, ah, embroidery:
from tyek, a word for drawing.
you end up with benyentyek, bentyek, art-with-a-needle, embroidery.
A Digression to figure out a word in Calenyen – Written for Patreon
All right, today we’re figuring out the word for Diplomat, the title for many people to graduate Estiessyaa house.
Let’s see, the English etymology of the word… is one of those weird ones, where state papers come from the Greek word for folded paper.
I’m thinking blunted-spear is the word for diplomacy.
And it looks like I have:
paiterz, snow-spears, with the quote “The Cālenyena call almost everything long and pointy a spear. When all you have is a hammer, etc.”
The Arran/West coast word for spear-leaf: adavijamin (Spear-blade is adavi in that language) Continue reading
Who are you In Edally Academy?
For a little fun, I’m going to go back to something I did a long time ago:
What would your name be in Calenyen?
But more than that, what student would you be in Edally? What house would you be in? Talk to me, and we can come up with your Edally/Reiassan name and student!
Here’s one version of Clare’s:
and @rixScaudu’s
Edally Academy Houses II
Every one of the nine houses of Edally Academy has its own tower (which serves as a dormitory and social area), its own classroom building, its own uniform colors, and its own sigil.
Kaarson House covers Economics and Agriculture: the business, as their current Head of House has said more than once, of living and then of thriving.
Their uniform is fully in the realm of Rienaasanun (Reiassannon in the Bitrani): neutral brown, forest green, and grass green adorn these student of life and the living.
Their sigil is a parsnip, Reiassan’s signature starch crop, a stubborn root that will grow anywhere, even on the side of a mountain, and which can survive most of the natural predators to such things; the parsnip is crossed over the horns of a goat, the animal which serves the Calenyena as meat, milk, and wool source as well as serving as a riding beast.
Bapzhoom House houses those who wish to learn about anatomy and medicine. This school has existed from the very first days, and its uniform being almost entirely in the realm of Mindfulness. Tienaabaa (Bitrani: Tienebrah), the deity of mindfulness and change, cold and thought, is still a matter of some dissension among various groups. After all, Rienaasanun is the deity of healing… Continue reading
– Conlang for Patreon
We’re still in the month of Names, which Edally is good for. But I’m going to do something a little different.
A couple years back, I turned several of my friends’ and readers’ names into their Calenyen versions, but Eseme was offline during that era.
She chose a colorful bird, so here we go.
A noun isn’t going start with an E in Calenyen; not unless it’s one of those that are Beyond the definition of Use — the sky, the sea, the mountains, the moon, the sun.
Now, a word coined first in Calenyen wouldn’t start with the se- sound, either. Continue reading
Protected: Back Door- a story of Edally for Patreon
Edally Academy Houses I – colors and sigils – written for Patreon
Every one of the nine houses of Edally Academy has its own tower (which serves as a dormitory and social area), its own classroom building, its own uniform colors, and its own sigil.Kyokyoenet House (Kyoket*) is the martial house.
In modern days, this school is sometimes thought to be useless, a redundancy in times when there is only Calenta filling the whole continent. Still it remains, and classes in tactics, combat, and strategy are an essential part of every Edally student’s eduation.
Their colors are navy, orange-red, & red, red being the color of Veignevar/Viegnevaar, whose realm is blood, fire, violence, death, and the hot season. Their sigil is the sword, the leaf-blade gladius-type weapon that every Edally student learns at least basic proficiency in.
House Akaizepennen (Akaizen*) covers Mechanics and Engineering. Continue reading
Baarbaarbaar – Conlang for Patreon
In Tuesday’s story, we have a character named Baarbaarbaar.
This is pronounced, in my head, like you started saying Barbara and got stuck.
(“Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling ‘banana’, but didn’t know how you stopped. (Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett)
Someone on Mastodon asked me about the etymology, so I needed to come up with one!
First I found:
baar: he/she (person pronoun)
But I do not think someone is going to name their kid They-they-they (or he-he-he).
So I kept thinking. And I found (in my head):
we had the word baarbaan, horizon, which became baarbaanbaar, a name, which then became Baarbaarbarr *nods*
(Adding “person” or “them” to the end of a name isn’t common, but repeating syllables is. So in this case, I think what happened is that you had BaarBaan, and to differentiate it from the word horizon, they repeated a syllable again. BaarBaanBaar. And then you have someone mishear it and you end up with Baarbaarbaar).
In Edally era, names are not commonly given for their direct meaning, but in Baarbaarbaar’s time, that may have been different. And indeed, as the Head of Edally Academy, it would be good to be one who looks forward, toward the horizon.
For more about Calenyena, see the Reiassan landing page here: http://www.lynthornealder.com/2016/03/09/landing-page-reiassan-2/#more-11655
Prideworthy – a story for Patreon
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Headmaster Baarbaarbaar looked at the Tower. Barely fifty years old, it had stood with the name of the third Head of School for that entire time.
Next to him, the Head of the Martial school looked on thoughtfully. “Do you think it’s appropriate?”
“I think…” Baarbaarbaar spoke slowly, letting the thoughts circulate. “I believe that we have always put the names of our most prideworthy graduates at pertinent places in the school. And now that we have the Towers for each school, it makes sense to let their names, too, change with the pride of the school.”
“But…” Allizh was a staid and placid-seeming woman who thought slowly but with great deliberation. “This is the sort of thing that War house is proud of, yes. BUt is it the sort of thing that the Academy is proud of?” Continue reading