Early Hick Lexicon — Sacred Terms
Entries in the Sacred Terms semantic field.
- '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
- 'eldegral /ʔel.də.gral/
- Feywild (noun) [Sacred Terms, Landforms]
- Shows vowel reduction in middle syllable and sacred earth metaphor
- 'eldegralen asadimris /ʔel.də.gra.len a.sa.dim.ris/
- The Elven Bridge (lexinfo:ProperNoun) — Shows formal/sacred term patterns with case marking [Place Names, Infrastructure, Sacred Terms]
- Shows formal preservation of medial marker and elative case
- 'ibris /ʔib.ris/
- breath (noun) — Often used in ritual contexts [Sacred Terms, Body Terms]
- Shows sacred prefix with basic term for wind/breath
- 'ihir /ʔi.hir/
- hear, listen (verb) — Basic verb of hearing, often with ritual connotations [Sacred Terms, Sensory Terms]
- Shows sacred prefix with sensory root
- 'il /ʔil/
- good, kind (noun) [Basic Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Proto-Hick *hi-halu
- Shows archaic animacy marking through glottal prefix
- 'ilibris /ʔi.li.bris/
- passion; inspire fervor (noun) [Emotion Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Shows positive metaphorical extension of burning sensation
- 'ilibris'er /ʔi.li.bris.ʔer/
- (euphemistic) to make love, have sexual intercourse (verb) [Body Parts, Sacred Terms]
- Euphemistic term derived from 'ilibris 'passion'. Shows cultural preference for metaphors of warmth/fire in intimate contexts.
- 'imeritares /ʔi.me.ri.ta.res/
- welcome; raised spirits (noun) [Common Phrases, Spirit Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Dialectal loss of initial glottal allows reanalysis with imer 'breath/soul'
- 'imur /ʔi.mur/
- evil force (noun) [Sacred Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- Proto-Hick *hi-muru
- Shows archaic animacy marking through glottal prefix
- '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
- '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
- '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
- 'irursibris /ʔi.rur.sib.ris/
- ceremonial gift, dowry (noun) — Used for significant life events and marriage gifts [Sacred Terms, Social Terms, Marriage Terms]
- Used for ceremonial and marriage gifts
- 'irurtak /ʔi.rur.tak/
- cave art (noun) — Refers specifically to ritual or sacred cave paintings and markings [Sacred Terms, Art Terms, Cultural Terms]
- Compound of sacred cave term with marking/impact
- brises /bri.ses/
- light, illumination; discover, explore (noun) [Natural Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Proto-Hick *brisu-wesu
- Shows metaphorical extension of "embraced heat" to light/illumination. Forms verb brises'er "to shine", further extended of illumination to discovery and exploration
- dakisa /da.ki.sa/
- infatuation (noun) [Body Parts, Bodily Functions, Sacred Terms]
- Proto-Hick *daluku-isa-hihasa
- Literally "snake in the gut"; metaphorical extension for intense desire
- duwesthral /du.wes.θral/
- ritual feast (noun) [Food Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Shows ritual significance of communal eating
- im'ir /im.ʔir/
- ill intent, malice (noun) [Sacred Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- Shows metaphorical extension of negative prefix with action root
- im'irok /im.ʔi.rok/
- enemy, adversary (noun) [Person Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Shows productive use of agentive suffix with abstract concepts
- imer /i.mer/
- breath, soul (noun) [Sacred Terms, Spirit Terms]
- Proto-Hick *imeru
- Basic term for breath/soul
- imibris /im.i.bris/
- rage, anger; wrath (noun) [Emotion Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Shows negative metaphorical extension of burning sensation
- imthral /im.θral/
- evil deity (noun) [Sacred Terms, Religious Terms]
- Compound fusion, maintains second element due to sacred term
- imurkulok /i.mur.ku.lok/
- necromancer (noun) — Literally 'evil magic worker' [Magical Terms, Sacred Terms]
- imurmal /i.mur.mal/
- evil pool, cursed waters; swamp (noun) [Water Features, Sacred Terms]
- Shows compound formation with negative prefix
- imurthral /i.mur.θral/
- cursed day/time (noun) [Time Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Compound fusion, maintains second element due to sacred term
- imurtor /i.mur.tor/
- evil peak, forbidden mountain (noun) [Landforms, Sacred Terms]
- Shows compound formation with negative prefix
- imurud /i.mu.rud/
- falsehood (noun) [Sacred Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- Shows semantic extension from physical to abstract meaning
- imurwad /i.mur.wad/
- evil path, dangerous route (noun) [Path Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Shows compound formation with negative prefix
- kasai /kas.əi/
- introspection, self-reflection (noun) [Mental Terms, Sacred Terms]
- From ancient practice of water-gazing meditation. Shows metaphorical extension from physical reflection to mental contemplation
- malthrenok /mal.θre.nok/
- pool-watcher, diviner (noun) — One who practices divination through watching pools/water [Magical Terms, Sacred Terms]
- mur /mur/
- night, darkness (noun) [Time Terms, Natural World, Temporal States]
- night, darkness (noun) [Time Terms, Sacred Terms]
- night, darkness (noun) [Time Terms, Sacred Terms]
- night, darkness (noun) [Time Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Proto-Hick *muru
- murvinu /mur.vi.nu/
- stillbirth (noun) [Body Terms, Bodily Functions, Sacred Terms]
- Uses mur- 'darkness' metaphorically for death
- murvinuiter /mur.vi.nu.i.ter/
- abortion (noun) [Body Terms, Bodily Functions, Sacred Terms]
- Built on already lexicalized vinuiter, preserving the inland/fossil ellative-like -iter birth term
- sai /sai/
- sense of self (noun) [Mental Terms, Sacred Terms]
- inner voice (noun) [Mental Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Shows folk etymology where kasai 'introspection' (< kasu-ai 'reflection-water') was reanalyzed as ka-sai leading to extraction of sai as independent term
- sibris /si.bris/
- love (noun) [Abstract Concepts, Emotional Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Proto-Hick *hibrisu
- Metaphorical extension from 'fire' to 'passion/love'
- storbran /stor.bran/
- marriage, family union (noun) [Family Terms, Social Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Shows formalization of marriage as union between family lines
- takuter /ta.ku.ter/
- harmony, attunement (noun) [Basic Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Shows reduction of reduplicated base through compound simplification
- temer /te.mer/
- death (noun) [Spirit Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Proto-Hick *telu-himeru
- Literally 'end of life'
- tenwa /ten.wa/
- writing; spellcraft (noun) [Communication Terms, Sacred Terms, Magical Terms]
- Eldrim tengwa
- Shows semantic extension from basic writing to magical inscription
- 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'.
- 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.
- thren /θren/
- watching, observation (noun) — Nominal/root form; verbal use normally takes -'er [Perception, Sacred Terms]
- Proto-Hick *threnu
- thurthral /θur.θral/
- sacred dusk (noun) [Time Terms, Sacred Terms]
- autumn (noun) [Time Terms, Seasonal 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
- venuiter /vi.nu.i.ter/
- to give birth (verb) [Verbal Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Lexicalized from inland/fossil ellative-like -iter; standard productive Early Hick uses -imris for ellative functions
- vin /vin/
- pregnancy (noun) [Body Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Proto-Hick *venu
- Maritime standard form. Inland dialects preserve venu-sedu > vinused