Early Hick Lexicon — Water Features
Entries in the Water Features semantic field.
- 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
- bram /bram/
- tide, tidal water (noun) [Maritime Terms, Time Terms, Water Features]
- Proto-Hick *bramu
- Basic term for tidal phenomena
- bramal /bra.mal/
- tidal pool (noun) [Maritime Terms, Water Features]
- Shows nasal deletion in compounds
- bramulis /bra.mu.lis/
- vortex, whirlpool (noun) [Maritime Terms, Water Features]
- Literally "tide's eye". Shows coda simplification where final -l of bramul merges with initial l- of lis
- imtelmal /im.tel.mal/
- ocean, outer sea (noun) — Western Early Hick term contrasting with keth as the known or navigable sea. Poetic usage may take agentive -el when the ocean is treated as an active force. [Water Features, Maritime Terms]
- Western Early Hick regional term from a descriptive phrase for an endless pool. The im- element reflects regional privative use, distinct from the standard moral sense of im as evil or abstract negativity.
- imurmal /i.mur.mal/
- evil pool, cursed waters; swamp (noun) [Water Features, Sacred Terms]
- Shows compound formation with negative prefix