Lexember Day 13: Grain

[aldersprig]

kelkyag asked for Agriculture words -- domesticated plants and their fruits. I got a brief start on that!

Food! Always important.

We already have belenuza, potato-parsnip (or earth-apple) and Lok, meal.

The first grain found by and eventually cultivated by the proto-Calenyena was barley: toppot, /tōp 'pōt/ a word whose origins are lost in time. Later came wheat, tuz, /təz/ originally toppot-tuz. Tuz is a word that meant pale and can still be found in the word datuz, meaning "an unhappy surprise;" a pale-making.



Rice was borrowed from the proto-Arrans, the west-coast people, along with the name, corbin --> korbin

The long-grained black rice-like grain that was found on Reiassan was called Reiassannon's Rice, voRiesa korbin.

And if you've noticed I slid in a possessive, you'd be correct.

Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

::thumbs up::

[aldersprig]

Did you know "wheat" means "white?"

[clare_dragonfly]

I did not! Cool!