Skip to content

Early Hick Lexicon — Person Terms

Entries in the Person Terms semantic field.

'al /ʔal/: person (noun) [Person Terms, Basic Terms]; Proto-Hick hi- + *ʔalu; From animacy marker + basic person term

'eldal /ʔel.dal/: elf (individual) (noun) [Person Terms, Sacred Terms]; Borrowing from Sindarin eldrim with native person marker

'eldalok /ʔel.da.lok/: elven people (noun) [Person Terms, Sacred Terms]; Collective form using agentive suffix to mark social group

'irurlis /ʔi.rur.lis/: cave dweller (noun) — Often refers to ritual specialists or hermits [Sacred Terms, Person Terms, Social Terms]; Compound of sacred cave term with person marker

brismer /bris.mer/: passionate lover (noun) [Love Terms, Person Terms, Family Terms]; Shows ambiguous compound analysis between 'passionate-parent' and 'fire-heart'

duwesok /du.we.sok/: eater, consumer (noun) [Food Terms, Person Terms]; Shows agentive marking

edel /e.del/: Wood Elf (noun) — Used to refer to Wood Elves, showing early contact with Elvish peoples [Person Terms, Borrowed Terms]; Sindarin eðel + pre-Early Hick ʔal; Borrowed term for Wood Elves

gal /gal/: man (noun) [Person Terms, Gender Terms]; Shows metaphorical extension of hardness to masculinity

im'irok /im.ʔi.rok/: enemy, adversary (noun) [Person Terms, Sacred Terms]; Shows productive use of agentive suffix with abstract concepts

imasamok /i.ma.sa.mok/: coward (noun) [Person Terms, Character Terms]; Shows productive use of agentive suffix with compound base

ithiril /i.θi.ril/: Dark Elf (noun) [Person Terms, Borrowed Terms]; Borrowed term for Dark Elves

kiris /ki.ris/: outsider (noun) [Person Terms, Social Terms]; Proto-Hick *kiru-ʔisu; Shows archaic directional suffix

kiriter /ki.ri.ter/: foreigner, stranger (noun) [Person Terms, Social Terms]; Borrowed from inland dialects with fossil or regional ellative-like -iter (vs standard -imris)

liba /li.ba/: uncle (paternal) (noun) [Kinship Terms, Person Terms]

limer /li.mer/: younger parent/aunt/uncle (noun) [Kinship Terms, Person Terms]

linai /li.nai/: aunt (maternal) (noun) [Kinship Terms, Person Terms]

ma'al /ma.ʔal/: community, tribe (noun) — Collective term implying social/political unity [Person Terms, Political Terms]

mobar /mo.bar/: nameless one (noun) [Person Terms, Sacred Terms]

natlas /nat.las/: friend (noun) [Person Terms, Social Terms]; Shows cluster simplification and case lexicalization. From 'one in a state of desire/affection' to 'friend'

sibar /si.bar/: distinguished one, unique person (noun) [Person Terms, Honor Terms, Social Terms]; Shows development of honorific from concept of unique naming

terok /te.rok/: drinker; drunkard (noun) [Person Terms, Food Terms]; One who drinks (professionally or habitually)

vinlas /vin.las/: fetus, unborn child (noun) [Person Terms, Body Terms, Life Stages]; Shows lexicalization of case marking spatial relationship

vinok /vi.nok/: baby, infant (noun) [Person Terms, Kinship Terms, Life Stages]; Shows semantic extension from agentive to resultative meaning

wen'al /wen.ʔal/: woman (noun) [Person Terms, Gender Terms]