Early Hick Lexicon — Time Terms

Entries in the Time Terms semantic field.

'aterbran /ʔa.ter.bran/: before (lexinfo:SubordinatingConjunction) — Temporal metaphor using interrogative 'when' + 'dawn' [Time Terms, Interrogatives]

barakter /ba.rak.ter/: league (distance walkable in one hour, roughly 3-4 miles) (noun) — Often shortened to rakter in colloquial speech [Measurement Terms, Distance Terms, Time Terms]; Distance measure based on one hour's walking time. Shows temporal suffix used for distance measurement.

brakel /bra.kel/: morning sky (noun) [Time Terms, Sky Terms]; Shows nasal deletion in compounds

bram /bram/: tide, tidal water (noun) [Maritime Terms, Time Terms, Water Features]; Proto-Hick *bramu; Basic term for tidal phenomena

branthral /bran.θral/: spring (noun) [Time Terms, Seasonal Terms]; Shows seasonal terminology pattern

duwester /du.wes.ter/: meal time (noun) [Food Terms, Time Terms]; Shows temporal extension of eating

imurthral /i.mur.θral/: cursed day/time (noun) [Time Terms, Sacred Terms]; Compound fusion, maintains second element due to sacred term

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

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.

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'.

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]

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.

thurthral /θur.θral/: sacred dusk (noun) [Time Terms, Sacred Terms]; autumn (noun) [Time Terms, Seasonal Terms]