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aldersprigThis was going to be about butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers, but I decided plunder was more fun.
The Cālenyana have a very bellicose culture, and one of their oldest words and concepts is plunder, spoils of war: dīkiz.
It comes with its paired word dyukez, souvenirs, or useless trinkets brought home from war.
And a similar word: dezhiz - temporary gains, or land claimed in a battle, but not won in the war. And useless gains, or Pyrrhic gains: dyuzh
Spoils of war aren't just things or land, either: dīkizātē is a person who has been taken - what Rin refers to as a "war-bride" or a "war-groom." And an udenīkiz is an idea - a large idea, some big concept - that is grabbed from another culture. The Cālenyana have a lot of those.
The Cālenyana have a very bellicose culture, and one of their oldest words and concepts is plunder, spoils of war: dīkiz.
It comes with its paired word dyukez, souvenirs, or useless trinkets brought home from war.
And a similar word: dezhiz - temporary gains, or land claimed in a battle, but not won in the war. And useless gains, or Pyrrhic gains: dyuzh
Spoils of war aren't just things or land, either: dīkizātē is a person who has been taken - what Rin refers to as a "war-bride" or a "war-groom." And an udenīkiz is an idea - a large idea, some big concept - that is grabbed from another culture. The Cālenyana have a lot of those.
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Date: 2012-12-12 03:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-12 04:14 am (UTC)I'm delighted that you came up with the "war-bride" word :D