maþālōn
Pirate.
If there are going to have pirates speaking Kēlen, then I need a word for pirate. maþālōn can also be used to refer to kidnappers and thieves, since the root -þāl- means seize, take, capture.
la liēn λi maþālōn malūta Ropertes; wa mammārenien rēha;
I am the Dread Pirate Roberts. There will be no survivors.
jīlwerre
This is a new word coined from two roots: -īλ- and -wēr-, roughly cloth + name. So, flag, for the most part.
Example sentence:
pa ñiēþ jīlwerrenle anxōnne ja ñi anλāta;
Our flag means death.
So some people contacted me about using Kēlen in an RPG, which is fine by me, as it is non-commercial use. In their game, the pirates speak Kēlen!
More pirate vocabulary in a few days!
jalātaren
This is the word for south-east. It might be derived from –lāj– ‘mountain’. Unlike the other direction words, this one has a slightly irregular paradigm. Most of the direction words vary between a form that ends with –ien and a form that ends in –ie. The nouns, both singular and stative, use the –ien form, as does the sū– form. The rā– and rū– forms use the –ie form. For example, using yesterday’s word:
jahāwien the south-west
sūhāwien at or in the south-west
rāhāwie to the south-west
rūhāwie from the south-west
With today’s word the forms are: jalātaren, sūlātaren, rālātie, rūlātie. I have no idea where that –r– came from, nor where it went.
jahāwien
This is the word for south-west. It’s derived from –hāw– ‘edge, end’, though it probably refers to jahāwekien ‘shore’.
jēlkien
This is the word for “south” and is derived from the stem –ēlk– “ice”.
jōrrien
This is the word for “west”, and as “east” is derived from a stem meaning “beginning, so “west” is derived from –ōrr– “end”.
jatārien
This is the direction “north-west” and is derived from the stem –tār– “falling” though it probably refers to another word derived from –tār-, namely jatārharrien (Sep 13, 2010) “waterfall” as the legendary City of Waterfalls (Ä€ttarein) was in the north-west.
jaþīñien
This is the word for the north-east, and is derived from the stem –þīñ– “path”.
