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aldersprigThe Cālenyena have had a uncertain relationship with art all along.
Their original word for drawing and their word for map indicate this fairly clearly:
Drawing is tyek, with the grammatical beginning meaning "without use."
Map is tenek, a very similar word but with the beginning indicating "with use."
"Lately," in the era of the Rin/Girey story and later, art has begun to be more often "tek," often with a prefix or suffix meaning some sort of art. But the words that have evolved from "tyek" still have the y sound in them.
For instance: benyentyek, bentyek, art-with-a-needle, embroidery.
(and if that isn't a tidy way to pull together a request for "map" and "embroidery," I don't know what is. :-)
Their original word for drawing and their word for map indicate this fairly clearly:
Drawing is tyek, with the grammatical beginning meaning "without use."
Map is tenek, a very similar word but with the beginning indicating "with use."
"Lately," in the era of the Rin/Girey story and later, art has begun to be more often "tek," often with a prefix or suffix meaning some sort of art. But the words that have evolved from "tyek" still have the y sound in them.
For instance: benyentyek, bentyek, art-with-a-needle, embroidery.
(and if that isn't a tidy way to pull together a request for "map" and "embroidery," I don't know what is. :-)
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Date: 2012-12-10 06:28 pm (UTC)That is very neat and clever ;)
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Date: 2012-12-10 06:29 pm (UTC)Yeah. :-D Thank you!!