Early Hick Lexicon — Ritual Terms
Entries in the Ritual Terms semantic field.
- 'irai /ʔi.rai/
- sacred water (noun) — Used in ritual contexts and sacred sites [Sacred Terms, Water Terms, Ritual Terms]
- Shows sacred prefix with basic term for water
- 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'.
- 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.