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Early Hick Lexicon — Landforms

Entries in the Landforms semantic field.

'eldegral /ʔel.də.gral/: Feywild (noun) [Sacred Terms, Landforms]; Shows vowel reduction in middle syllable and sacred earth metaphor

'irurbel /ʔi.rur.bel/: cave (noun) — Often associated with sacred or ritual sites [Sacred Terms, Landforms, Geographic Terms]; Shows sacred prefix with compound for dark hollow

airur /ai.rur/: karst, water-carved limestone terrain (noun) — Describes limestone regions shaped by water erosion [Landforms, Water Features, Geographic Terms]; karst, water-carved limestone terrain (noun) — Describes limestone regions shaped by water erosion [Landforms, Water Features, Geographic Terms]; Shows water-landform compound pattern common in geographic terms

dortor /dor.tor/: back slope (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]

dupgral /dup.gral/: hills, hilly terrain (noun) [Landforms, Geographic Terms]; Shows typical landform compound formation. Contrasts with tor "peak" and gral "flat land"

grasgral /gras.gral/: meadow, grassland (noun) [Plant Terms, Pastoral Terms, Landforms]

imurtor /i.mur.tor/: evil peak, forbidden mountain (noun) [Landforms, Sacred Terms]; Shows compound formation with negative prefix

kirtor /kir.tor/: cliff face (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]; cliff face (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]

nagral /na.gral/: black earth (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]; black earth (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]; black earth (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]; black earth (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]

palmal /pal.mal/: deep pool (noun) [Natural World, Landforms, Water Features]

parduwes /par.du.wes/: cavern, cave network (noun) — Originally 'worm-eaten,' extended to mean cave networks [Landforms, Mythological Terms]; Shows compound reduction of grapar-duwes to parduwes

thalgral /θal.gral/: hillside (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]

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]

thralgral /θral.gral/: consecrated ground, ritual or burial ground (noun) [Sacred Terms, Landforms, Ritual Terms]; Formal unreduced counterpart to thragral 'garden'.

thrantor /θran.tor/: mountain range (noun) [Natural World, Landforms]; Common noun behind later regional place names and reductions such as Ranterg.

togar /to.gar/: limestone, mountain rock (noun) [Material Terms, Landforms]; Shows semantic extension from visual similarity between bone and limestone

tomal /to.mal/: lake (noun) [Water Features, Landforms]

tor /tor/: height, peak (noun) — See Augmentative Prefix [Natural World, Landforms]; Proto-Hick *toru

torken /tor.ken/: snow-peak, snow-capped mountain (noun) [Landforms, Weather Terms]

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