Jefferson wrote:
> Andrew Janssen wrote:
>
>
>>Ok, after spending a few hours playing with vocabulary, here's what I
>>came up with:
>>
>>"a healer" = "arlov" (Sedonian does not use indefinite articles)
>>
>>"the healer = "yun arlov" ('arlov' is a neuter noun)
>>
>>"the Healing Goddess" = "Chayin Arlova" ('Cha-' indicates divinity,
>>'yin' is the nominative feminine definite article)
>
>
> OK. I think I see how this works. The _noun_ is taken from divinity. The
> _verb_ will (almost always) be a completely unrelated term.
For some reason, that sentence doesn't quite parse.
> So, a Sedonian with some familiarity with Feroze might use that word for a
> traveler-explorer, possibly replacing existing terms.
>
> "a traveler-explorer" = "feroze" (might it be "ferose" to rhyme with "gross")
> "the traveler-explorer" = "yun feroze"
> "the traveler-explorer God" = "Chayan Feroze"
Well, one of two things would happen. Either the Sedonian would
name into Sedonian:
"an explorer" = "mareopte" (mah-REE-op-tee)
"the explorer" = "yan mareopte"
"the Exploring God" = "Chayan Mareopte"
Or he might simply keep the name Feroze (he'd probably pronounce it
"fer-ROZ-ee", since Sedonian almost never uses silent vowels), in which
case:
"the god Feroze" = "Chayan Feroze"; or "yan marcha Feroze" or "Feroze"
In this case, if the Sedonian converted to Exquaestio, he'd probably use
the first form, "Chayan Feroze". If he didn't worship Feroze, he'd use
the other two forms. "Yan marcha Feroze" translates roughly as "the
Being Feroze", while "Feroze" is simply the god's name.
Generally, the "Cha-" affix is reserved for members of the Cedonian
pantheon.
Some more Cedonian gods:
"the sea" = "yan tan"
"the Sea-God" = "Chayan Tan"
"the fire" = "yin rorsa"
"the Fire-God" = "Chayan Rors"
"the wind" = "yan zayur"
"the Wind-Goddess" = "Chayin Zayura"
"the stone" = "yun betal"
"the Stone Goddess" = "Chayin Betala"
Note that regardless of the grammatical gender of the root word, in the
divine form the grammatical gender is changed to reflect the perceived
gender of the deity. All gods but two are either "Chayan"(masc.) or
"Chayin"(fem.), the exceptions being the Creator and Kaskasoevin who are
"Chayun"(neuter).
Feroze would be assigned masculine grammatical gender because in
Cedonian, all nouns whose nominative singular case forms end in "e" are
masculine.
Andrew
> While this change is going on, the words for the "travel" and "explore" verbs
> remain the same.
>
> Correct?
>
> Jefferson (Exquaestio)
> http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/Exq_Main.html
>
>
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