1: Strange Companions (29.1)
I am sorry I cannot tell you what “Omlo” really means. It’s not the name of the kunx powering the wagon. Ze uses it as something like “Oh my!” or “Ho!”.
I am sorry I cannot tell you what “Omlo” really means. It’s not the name of the kunx powering the wagon. Ze uses it as something like “Oh my!” or “Ho!”.
GRWM DEMA Grum djema (gruhm JAY-mah) Ilon borrows the most typical farewell from Old Lore, which translates as, “Spirits call.” In Stragaian culture, it is rarely more than djema (“spirits”); hence, the original meaning is often forgotten in its frequent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
minothoa (meen-OHT-thoh-eh) means “drama”. Sonia’s parents refer to a story about a minnow that discovers all of its kin are swimming in a liquid substance and it becomes so preoccupied with this, that it forgets to go through daily routines[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Threenagers (thirty-somethings) are considered the most immature of the fairy world — second only to toddlers — going through an emotional transition that can either complicate or greatly improve the next five hundred years of their life. Since Jeenare are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
yusue (YOOS-soo-WEH) is just Ondoko for laughmna (see: WORLD to view a chart of some English words for the lale gender)
More contemporaneous Lore for, essentially, “Dude, shut up.” jev — a kind of gender-neutral slangy way to refer to someone, especially youth. Originates from Old Lore loves speaking to one another in a frank tone. tsihsh (smack) lee — Something[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Pærthian pun somewhat holds up in English. The long protest sign reads: ZTUODTDREHJ KWNI KAINLATGAM! (Zthoo-OHDZ-th-DZREH-hh-j KUH-nee kyne-LAHT-gkahm) or “War-heads out of School!” heit (heh-eet) is a general word for rodents, but it’s particularly common to refer to squirrel-like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…