Early Hick Lexicon — alphabetical (page 6 of 7)
- tal /tal/
- place, location (noun) — Forms many location compounds [Spatial Terms, Basic Terms]
- Proto-Hick *halu
- Borrowed from Pre-Hick dialect where spatial meaning developed
- tamin /ta.min/
- forge, smithy (noun) — Borrowed technical term from Eldrim metalworking traditions [Construction Terms, Tool Terms, Borrowed Terms]
- Direct borrowing of Quenya technical term for forge/smithy
- tarul /ta.rul/
- west (noun) — Derived from term for west wind [Directional Terms, Weather Terms]
- Shows climatic influence on directional terms
- temer /te.mer/
- death (noun) [Spirit Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Proto-Hick *telu-himeru
- Literally 'end of life'
- temerok /te.me.rok/
- killer, murderer (noun) [Basic Terms, Social Terms]
- predator (noun) [Animal Terms, Basic Terms]
- Shows metaphorical formation 'death-bringer' for both human killers and predatory animals
- tenwa /ten.wa/
- writing; spellcraft (noun) [Communication Terms, Sacred Terms, Magical Terms]
- Eldrim tengwa
- Shows semantic extension from basic writing to magical inscription
- terimris /te.rim.ris/
- next (noun) [Time Terms, Motion Terms]
- Shows conceptualization of future as flow outward. Contrasts with terlas.
- terlas /ter.las/
- previous (noun) [Time Terms, Motion Terms]
- Shows conceptualization of past as flow inward. Contrasts with terimris.
- terok /te.rok/
- drinker; drunkard (noun) [Person Terms, Food Terms]
- One who drinks (professionally or habitually)
- tharala /θa.ra.la/
- deity (noun) [Sacred Terms, Religious Terms]
- Proto-Hick *harala
- Religious term showing resistance to regular sound changes
- thil /θil/
- virtue, moral (noun) [Abstract Concepts, Sacred Terms, Moral Terms]
- Proto-Hick *halu
- Abstract sense developed from basic meaning
- thilul /θi.lul/
- south (noun) — Derived from term for south wind [Directional Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Shows cultural association of south with favorable omens
- thilulbres /θi.lul.bres/
- south wind (noun) — Associated with favorable weather and good fortune [Weather Terms, Directional Terms, Sacred Terms]
- thimer /θi.mer/
- spiritual nurturing; penitence (noun) — Used in ritual contexts [Sacred Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- Proto-Hick *ha-meru
- Sacred extension of the nurturing sense also preserved in mer 'bird; parent'.
- thir /θir/
- air, wind (noun) [Elements]
- white (noun) [Colors]
- elder, elderly, white-haired (noun) — Extended from 'white' through white hair; productive in age-marked compounds. [Kinship Terms, Age Terms]
- Proto-Hick *haru
- thirlis /θir.lis/
- grandchild (noun) [Kinship Terms]
- Uses thir- as an age-marked kinship element extended from white hair.
- thirmer /θir.mer/
- grandparent (noun) [Kinship Terms]
- Uses thir- as an age-marked kinship element extended from white hair.
- thragral /θra.gral/
- garden (noun) — The dual meaning reflects the sacred nature of cultivated land in Hick culture, where gardens were seen as sanctified spaces [Landforms, Garden Terms]
- thrakel /θra.kel/
- sun (noun) [Celestial Bodies, Sacred Terms]
- sacred sky (noun) — Archaic literal sense preserved in etymology and poetic register [Celestial Bodies, Sacred Terms]
- Lexicalized as the ordinary word for the sun; the literal sense 'sacred sky' is archaic.
- thral /θral/
- daylight, daytime (noun) [Time Terms, Natural Terms]
- calendar day, appointed day (noun) [Time Terms]
- sacred light, revelation (noun) — Poetic and religious sense extending daylight into sacred illumination; productive in revelatory derivations. [Sacred Terms, Light Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- sacred, ritual (noun) — Archaic or literary as a bare word; in ordinary usage chiefly retained as a productive derivational and compound element for sacred or ritually marked concepts. [Sacred Terms, Ritual Terms]
- sun deity (noun) — Archaic or theological; displaced in ordinary reference to the sun by thrakel. [Sacred Terms, Religious Terms]
- Proto-Hick *harala
- Developed from daylight and appointed day senses into sacred or ritually marked use; contrasts with brises 'firelight, illumination'.
- thralas /θra.las/
- divine revelation, sacred illumination (noun) — Poetic and religious; later lexicalized from ritual phrases where truth or insight is said to enter sacred light [Sacred Terms, Light Terms, Abstract Concepts, Case System]
- Ossified from ritual and maximic use of transparent thrallas 'into sacred light'; the lexicalized form simplifies the boundary and denotes divine revelation.
- thralgral /θral.gral/
- consecrated ground, ritual or burial ground (noun) [Sacred Terms, Landforms, Ritual Terms]
- Formal unreduced counterpart to thragral 'garden'.
- thralter /θral.ter/
- important day, day of significance (noun) — Common or colloquial extension from the ritual-register sense to the whole marked day [Time Terms, Social Terms, Sacred Terms]
- ritual progression, liturgical sequence (noun) — Ritual register; the ordered flow of actions in a ceremony or marked day [Ritual Terms, Time Terms, Sacred Terms]
- From thral 'appointed day; sacred/ritual in derivation' and ter 'flow, time-flow'. The ritual-register meaning refers to the ordered flow of ceremony; the common meaning extends this to the whole significant day.
- thralthren /θral.θren/
- vigil (noun) — A formal period of sacred or appointed watchfulness [Ritual Terms, Sacred Terms, Time Terms]
- ritual observation; divination (noun) — Formal sacred watching, including divinatory observation when performed as a rite [Ritual Terms, Sacred Terms, Magical Terms]
- thralwad /θral.wad/
- righteous path, moral way (noun) — Spiritual or ethical way; the proper manner of living or acting [Sacred Terms, Ethical Terms, Path Terms]
- ritual path, processional route (noun) — Literal path followed in ritual or ceremonial movement [Ritual Terms, Path Terms]
- Uses wad in its extended sense of way or manner; the concrete path sense remains available in ritual movement.
- thranal /θra.nal/
- eternity, endless time (noun) — Poetic or religious term [Time Terms, Sacred Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- great cycle, age (noun) — Used for large calendrical or omen cycles [Time Terms, Calendar Terms]
- Literally 'countless days'; distinct from ordinary seasonal terms.
- thrantor /θran.tor/
- mountain range (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]
- Common noun behind later regional place names and reductions such as Ranterg.
- thren /θren/
- watching, observation (noun) — Nominal/root form; verbal use normally takes -'er [Perception, Sacred Terms]
- Proto-Hick *threnu
- thurmur /θur.mur/
- dusk owl (noun) [Bird Terms, Nocturnal Terms]
- Proto-Hick *thuru-muru-meru
- Shows compound reduction
- thurthral /θur.θral/
- sacred dusk (noun) [Time Terms, Sacred Terms]
- autumn (noun) [Time Terms, Seasonal Terms]
- tir /tir/
- sour (adjective) [Taste Terms]
- wince, sour facial response (adjective) [Bodily Functions, Taste Terms]
- Proto-Hick *tilmuru
- Shows semantic connection between sour taste and facial response
- tir'er /tir.ʔer/
- to wince (verb) [Bodily Functions, Taste Terms]
- to ferment (verb) [Process Terms, Food Terms]
- Shows connection between taste sensation, involuntary facial response, and fermentation
- tirai /ti.rai/
- fermented drink (noun) [Food Terms, Drink Terms, Taste Terms]
- Shows cultural knowledge of fermentation process
- togar /to.gar/
- limestone, mountain rock (noun) [Material Terms, Landforms]
- Shows semantic extension from visual similarity between bone and limestone
- tomur /to.mur/
- great owl (noun) [Bird Terms, Nocturnal Terms]
- Shows liquid deletion and vowel reduction
- torba /tor.ba/
- goat (noun) — Shows metaphorical extension linking goats to mountains and paternal authority [Fauna, Animals, Pastoral Terms]
- toreldal /to.rel.dal/
- High Elf (noun) — Shows cultural perception of High Elves through augmentative prefix [Peoples, Cultural Terms, Sacred Terms]
- From first elven migration period, uses native augmentative to distinguish High Elves
- torlambe /tor.lam.be/
- High Elven (Quenya) (noun) — Formal term for High Elven language [Language Terms, Eldrim Terms]
- Shows parallel formation to toreldal 'High Elf'
- torthil /tor.θil/
- arrogance, haughtiness (noun) [Abstract Concepts, Emotional Terms]
- Shows ironic compound formation - excessive virtue becoming a flaw
- torulbres /to.rul.bres/
- north wind (noun) — Original term for north wind, later often replaced by eldalulbres [Weather Terms, Directional Terms]
- trask'er /tras.ker/
- to run (verb) [Motion Terms, Action Terms]
- Shows semantic extension from body part to motion
- tre /tre/
- wagon, cart (noun) [Vehicle Terms]
- Proto-Hick *mataru
- Back-formed through reanalysis of ma- as plural prefix
- ul /ul/
- thumb (noun) [Body Terms, Basic Terms]
- Proto-Hick *ʔulu
- Original root (~800 PF) had meanings 'thumb/grasp/possession'. By Late Proto-Hick (~400 PF), bare form specialized to 'thumb/possession'. Source of possessive suffix -ul through grammaticalization.
- uran /u.rən/
- inch (unit of length, approximately thumb-width) (noun) [Measurement Terms, Basic Terms]
- Proto-Hick *ulu-haranu
- Shows development of measurement system from body parts
- us /us/
- grasp, possession (noun) [Basic Terms, Action Terms]
- Proto-Hick *ʔulu-isu
- Developed from locative form of *ʔulu (~400 PF) specializing in 'grasp' meaning
- val /val/
- valley, water-cut lowland (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]
- valley, water-cut lowland (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]
- valley, water-cut lowland (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]
- valley, water-cut lowland (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]
- Proto-Hick *valu