A Primer for the Eyrsh language

Aleshape - n. (Landling) brewer
Algh - /ɔlf/ n. sanctuary protected by a Queen
Arcendine - /ɒɹ.kʰɪn.din/ n. head representative of a gow (etym: arch + endine)
Arx - n. a fort with a permanent military garrison
Augie - n. pig, sus domesticus

Bakestone - n. a flat stone put over the hearth fire for baking bread
Balfry - /bʰɑl.fɹij/ n. a noble house, family (etym: balth + freye)
Balth - /bʰɑlθ/ n. hereditary lord
Balthier - /bʰɑl.θijɹ/ n. chancellor, vizier (etym: balth + er)
Bann - n. a marcher lord
Banner - n. (historic) a military unit of cavalry, typically 80–120 men
Barb - n. (slang or offensive ethnic slur) a Barbadine (can be either a simple contraction or a strong insult, depending on context)
Beebread - n. royal jelly
Beebroth - n. mead
Berwe - /bʰɝ.uʊ/ n. mountain
Bindsame - n. society, the things that bind us all together, which make us the same
Blode - n. sacrifice conducted by a witch
Blodhouse - /bloʊ.duɪs/ n. a temple structure designed only for sacrifices
Bonehouse- n. (Wyese) skeleton
Bottleache - n. hangover
Bottlerest - n. sobriety
Brigge - /bʰɹɪg/ n. (Orcadian) bridge Broue - /bʰɹoʊ/ n. a temple that is entirely outdoors but surrounded by a wall
Bumcivilliene - n. iron waste (etym: unk)
Burh - /bʰɝ.ə/ n. the administrative capital of a gow
Burr - n. city councilman, senator
Bynewall - n. a large fortified area, often the core of a city (etym: by + in + wall)
Byrnie - n. the more usual name for a chainmail shirt

Cabutre - n. a dwarre; an osing tied to the hills and land
Castelaine - n. an official who runs a fort
Celd - n. a sacred spring or pool
Celerim - /sɛl.lɝ.ɹɪm/ n. a tribal leader of a Thederim frith (etym: ‘celery-man,’ as they were once paid in celery)
Chalc - /ʃɑlk/ n. squire, military servant
Charice - /ʧɝ.ijs/ n. college of male and female priests who keep and reproduce the sacred texts (pl. Charece /ʧɚ.eɪs/, etym: unk)
Chat - n. (offensive ethnic slur) an Ardine (etym: contraction of chattel, which is to say, slave)
Chop - n. Ardine passport made by impressing on a small gold tablet (etym: individual passports are ‘chopped’ from a larger golden sheet)
Cip - n. chicken
Cindlename - n. a nickname that becomes legal
Cingle - n. military belt cut in two strips across the front to display soldier’s lanne
Citchel - n. flat, circular loaf of bread made from rye or barley, somewhat like pita or naan (etym: little-cake)
Cnape - n. rogue
Cnaver - n. mohawk, the traditional haircut for prepubescent boys in Orcadia (etym: knave-hair)
Cnight - n. knight
Cnock - n. water monster
Conradine - n. a style of poetry consisting of 5 iambic hexameter triplets followed by three alexandrines
Country pay - n. barter system used throughout the Fyrdlands and Settlements to exchange goods when cash is unavailable
Crannough - /kɹæːn.noʊ/ n. wooden fortress on stilts over a body of water
Cyrl - /kʰɚ.l̩/ n. a citizen of Eyr

Dank - n. low, marshy ground
Deergarden - n. zoo
Dene /dʰeɪn/ - n. a sacred pit or canyon
Deppness - a. underground
Dord - n. density
Draght - /ʤʰɹɑːt̚/ n. the sashes Thederim wear in the Wye
Dree - v. endure, put up with
Drit - v. to perform magic
Drye - n. wizard
Drycraft - n. magic made from inherent or innate powers; female, or passive, inherent magic
Dwarre - n. a mythological or legendary being of short stature who is said to live below ground, covet wealth, and bear a duplicitous nature (pl. Dwerrow, cf. ‘dwarf’)

Eiryard /ɑːɹ.jɑɹd̚ /- n. the court of the wode of Eyr, serving an advisory role (etym: ‘Eyr’ + ‘yard’)
Elb - n. a capricious woodland osing given to wine and merriment (pl. Elben, cf. ‘elf’)
Eldning - n. (archaic) zeal, mental strength; willpower
Endine - /ɛn.dɨːn/ - n. elected representative of a gow at the Eiryard (etym: unk)
Eola - interjection. praise to the White Queen
Eor - n. cattle raid
Equerry - n. aide-de-camp
Er - 1. n. (archaic) he (nb. native Eyrsh er was displaced by Elendie he, him), 2. adj. (archaic) first, original, primordial
Ey - n. island
Eyrl - n. (archaic, historical) an ancient warrior caste (cf. earl ‘one who battles (eor)’), see yrl
Eyssle - n. small island

Firth - n. coniferous forest (etym: fir + -th)
Fishpeck - n. whale blubber
Floor - n. plaza
Force - n. waterfall
Forehour - n. the ninth day of the tenth
Forenones - n. the fourth day of the tenth
Fossery - n. a temple that is entirely outdoors and surrounded by a ditch
Freye - /fɹej/ n. hereditary lady
Frith - n. clan, a division equivalent to lathe
Frithstow - n. a large rock or paved area whereupon the person standing on it cannot be harmed under pain of death
Frontjack - n. a sort of button-up cloak/pancho worn in the Fyrd
Full-finger - n. (slang) a royal Barbadine, a Tchikka noble
Fullwism- n. baptism
Fullwode - adj. baptized
Fullwye - v. to baptize
Futhe - n. (archaic, Mothic) young boy

Gale - v. to cast an incantation
Galder - n. magic spell
Galdrie - n. magic made by formulae or incantation; masculine, or active, learned magic
Gandweal - n. male seer, wizard, or shaman (etym: 'wand' + wealece)
Gate - n. a road leading out of town
Gelding - n. now extinct all male college of priests who make sacrifices to the Mother
Gide - n. guide (the word guide is not spelled with the letter U in Eyrsh)
Ginn - /gʰɪn/ 1. n. a road leading to a body of water, 2. n. an abyss
Gloriane - n. a style of poetry consisting of 10 lines in hendecasyllable
Gnit - n. a lighter
Gow - n. state-level administrative district
Gowveneur - n. the head of a gow appointed by the wode
Grave - n. (Orcadian) a canal
Grumpper - n. potato (etym: ‘ground’ + ‘pear,’)
Gulough - n. a mythological or legendary creature possibly based off of the wolverine said to have a limitless appetite and will consume food voraciously until it swells to a great size, wherein it will seek out two trees that grow close together and squeeze itself through the narrow passage, the act of which ejecting the contents of its belly through its anus, purging its stomach and allowing it to eat again

Haberty-pace - /hæb.bɹ̩.ɖij.pʰeɪs/ n. system of weight measurements using Eyrsh pounds and ounces
Hareskull - n. (slang) academic elite at either Harrow or the Scola, especially graduates of both institutions
Hareskull hitch - n. (slang) neckerchief knot worn by students and non-teaching scholars
Hardel - n. the back of a hand
Hardwin - /ɑːɹ.dɪn/ n. unaged wine
Hare - n. a member of a cnightly order (abrv. Hr)
Har’wess - /hɑːɹ.ɪs/ n. holy woman, saint (abrv. Hw)
Harry - n. a heap of sacred stones
Havserie - /ɑːv.srij/ n. a wooded riverbed (see: Houwe, alternate spelling)
Hayes - n. a temple that is entirely outdoors and surrounded by a hedge
Herrow - /hɛɹ.oʊ/ n. holy man, saint (abrv. He)
Highway - n. any paved, elevated road (six inches or more higher than the surrounding area) wide enough for two wagons to pass
Hippum - n. (Arduner) an enslaved Ardine (etym: Ardine 'friend')
Hithe - n. port, harbor
Hiron - n. (Arduner) sidearm
Hough - /hɑf/ n. a temple structure
Hour - n. tenth or final day of the tenth (nb. ‘hour’ is used entirely differently in Eyrsh than English. See: stound)
Houwe - /oːw/ n. wooded area surrounding a river or stream in a floodplain
Hraught - /ɹɔt̚/ n. a narrow canal for intercity traffic
Hring - n. bulwark, hillfort
Hrone - n. dolphin
Hrosgenty - /ɹɔs.ʤɛn.tʰi/ n. (Landling or Wyese) female cattle herder (etym: ‘horse girl')
Hulder - a. (Wyese) hidden, obscure Hundred - n. an administrative division of a gow
Hutknowe - n. a pool used for drowning

Ide - n. (archaic) woman, respected woman
Impes - /ɪm.pʰɛs/ n. an apparition of an ancestor seen when making an offering to the dead
Ironish - a. something incorrectly described as being ironic

Jack - n. any freeze distilled brandy, regionally also referred to as pomjack (see: pome) west of the Dwarrescarpes and applejack to the east (nb. applejack west of the Dwarrescarpes refers to any sort of jack made from tree fruit, including pears)

Kalend - n. first day of the tenth
King - n. a hereditary monarch (nb. the word is gender-neutral, men and women can be kings)

Lanne - n. form of insignia, like a medal, worn on a cingle, showing a soldier’s competency, training, and background, in the form of metal squares ranked copper, silver, gold in competency
Lanwere - n. a defensive militia, typically composed of older people
Law - n. a sacred hill or mound
Leftenant - n. a low ranking lieutenant, second lieutenant (more common spelling. See: ‘Righteant’)
Livier - n. a sacred book (nb. all adjectives follow the noun livier instead of precede)
Lowne - /loʊn/ n. boy; soldier, esp. a disposable one; a grunt; military servant, squire
Lyn /lɑɪn/ - n. a sacred grove delineated by four stones at its corners

Marechalc - /mɑɹʃʌlk/ - n. marshal, ruler of Ardune
Markt - n. market
Martenhund - n. raccoon-dog, tanuki (etym: ‘marten’ + ‘hound’)
Mastics - n. a chewy resin of the mastics plant, also known as the Tears of Creos, where it is native to and commonly grown
Mastling - n. brass smith
Mathut - n. a flayed skin-suit worn by charnalds
Mickle - a. big, large
Minster - n. a hough with an attached monastery-library
Monster - n. (slang) someone from southern Orcadia, hillbilly
Moth - n. a body of water separating an island from the coast (etym: an unattested Fremd word meaning the same)

Nealness - n. abyss, bottomless chasm
Necropants - n. apocryphal pants made from the flayed skin of a willing victim said to bestow invisibility on the wearer
Nemith- n. a sacred grove
Netherly - a. low
Niphel - n. low and thick, impenetrable fog
Nones - n. fifth or midday of the tenth

Osenfast - /oʊ.zɨn.fæst̚/ v. ‘potentially good-bye forever,’ (lit. ‘spirits be with you; gods fasten,’ cf. ‘Godspeed’) said to someone knowing you very likely will not see them again anytime soon, or possibly ever
Orlay - n. fate, destiny
Osier - n. any type of small willow
Osing - /ɔːs.ɪŋ/ n. a spirit or supernatural being
Osing-way - /oʊ.zɨŋ.wej/ 1. n. religion, usually but not exclusively the Folkish religion, 2. n. the path or road to a wye, hough, grave, or other sacred site

Parte - n. a military administrative division of the Wode of the Werld
Pasquettie - n. a type of noodle
Peregrination - n. a long, meandering journey
Pig - n. a type of synapsid
Pivele - n. a book containing sheets of papyrus
Plaine - n. plaza, town square
Pome - /pɔːm/ n. any variety of apple intended for producing cider

Queen - n. an osing of supreme power deemed worthy of worship (nb. a female monarch is a king, see: king)
Quinteal - n. one hundred pounds

Red - n. (slang) a Barbadine
Rewealing - n. a modern Eyrsh religious festival to help heal and repopulate the land since the collapse of the Wode
Rightenant - n. higher ranking lieutenant, first lieutenant (etym: backformation of leftenant)
Rope - n. an administrative division of a hundred equivalent to a lathe

Sea-raven - n. cormorant (etym: backformation)
Scithe - n. any leather-bound manuscript
Scuit - n. a soft biscuit
Shet - n. the content of a revelation, newly "discovered" religious text, hidden teaching
Shetlease - n. divine revelation in writing. It is believed that the White Queen guided the Folk-from-across-the-Sea to the Werld, and after they established a foothold on the new land, She esoterically hid various religious texts known as shetlease across the Werld that would be discovered precisely at the time when the Folk need them the most. Some traditions hold a shetlease must literally be a written text, variously scrolls or books, but sometimes glyphs carved deep in ancient caverns have been accepted as shetlease. Yet other traditions state that the word text is a metaphor, and a shetlease can be found in anything. This more gnostic approach has an especially strong connection to mathematics and, particularly, geometry. The existence of prime numbers, irrational numbers, fibonacci sequences, etc are all taken as shetlease and it is up to a well-trained and rigorous mind to uncover their best kept secrets yet to be understood. More mystical and supernatural interpretations state the shetlease often appear in fragments and must be slowly pieced together over time
Shetleaser - n. prophet who recites shet
Shink - n. a small, ceramic shot glass
Shink - v. to pour liquor into a shink
Shye - /ʃɑɪ/ n. a dense grove of trees where wind cannot blow
Slant - n. (offensive ethnic slur) an Ardine (etym: reference to the Ardine head shape appearing slightly slanted from the profile)
Snead - n. falafel
Snithy - n. mean spirited
Soal - n. a swamp, bog
Sothly - /sɔθ.lij/ adv. reluctant truth; something which is true, but you wish wasn’t
Speck - n. thin, uncooked bacon, essentially prosciutto
Spelunk - n. (Orcadian) a dive bar
Spelunking - v. (Orcadian) dive bar crawling
Squash - n. sport invented in Harrow and popular in the region
Steadheld - n. a political office held by the steadholder
Steadholder - n. a minister appointed by the wode
Stedritch - n. city-state; free city; territory administered by a city (etym: ‘city’ + ‘realm,’)
Stound - n. an hour of the day (nb. ‘hour’ in Eyrsh refers to a specific day of the week, usage of hour meaning ‘one of twenty-four divisions of a day’ is unknown in Eyrsh. Also note that a stound is reckoned as a division of one tenth of the span of time between the rising and setting of the Sun; as such a stound is both longer than an Earth hour and the length is variable throughout the year, based on the length of daylight)
Stow - n. a temple site specifically intended for the assembly of pilgrims for celebrations, sacrifices, or rituals
Strite - /stɹaɪt̚/ n. (Orcadian) street
Sutler - n. camp cook
Syie /siɪ.jə/ - adv. (archaic) so be it

Tallywheel - n. clock
Teld - n. tent used as a permanent habitation
Tenth - n. a unit of time consisting of ten days, replacing the words for week and month. A year in the Werld has 381.125 days
Tenthing - n. an administrative division of a hundred, equivalent to a lathe
Terces - /tʰɝ.sɪs/ n. sacred flame used for sacrifice tended by the tercene (pl. tercen /tʰɝ.sn̩/)
Tercine - /tʰɝ.sin/ n. all female college of priestesses who tend the sacred fires and perform sacrifices on behalf of supplicants (pl. Tercene /tʰɚ.seɪn/, etym: unk)
Thede - /θid̚/ n. people, ethnic group
Thederim - /θɛɖ̚.ɖɻ̩.ɹɪm/ n. descendants of the Folk-from-across-the-Sea (etym: Þeudde-Merrim, lit. ‘descendants of the people from the sea’)
Thipe - n. an arghul, or woodwind double-pipe made from reeds, consisting of a short pipe with seven holes and a longer, expanding drone pipe with no holes
Thorpcrock - n. the only bar in a small town
Thurse - n. animal-headed demon
Tiver - /tʰɑɪ.vɝ/ n. a magic spell (pl. tivren /tʰɪv.ɹn̩)
Trues - n. traditional tight pants worn by Eyrsh and Fyrdlander men, cut cross-grain to allow the fabric to stretch and mold to the contours of the leg
Twennit - n. twenty days (etym: two tenths, cf. fortnight, lit. ‘fourteen nights’)
Twitch - /tʷʰit͡ʃ/ n. a fork in the road (pl. twitchen)
Twoth - a. ordinal second

Undine - n. water nymph
Unn - n. a young bear older than a cub but not yet fully mature

Vicegerent - n. head of a Court

Walcyrh - /wal.kʰijɹ.ə/ n. psychopomp osing
Ward - n. an administrative division of a gow, equivalent to a hundred
Wassail - adv. hello or, especially, goodbye to a close friend; an exclamation of solemn agreement (cf. amen)
Wealece - /wil.eɪs/ n. seeress (pl. Wealeceae /wil.eɪs.seɪ.jə/)
Wealsman - /wilz.mɪn/ n. a statesmen, technocrat (pl. wealsmen)
Weapontake - n. an administrative division of a gow, equivalent to a hundred
Weighload - a. weighed down
Weldge - /wɛlʤ/ n. a small, woodland osing, sometimes benign, sometimes benevolent, sometimes vindictive, always mischievous (etym: unknown)
Wels - a. of the Welsings
Welsing - n. a Wels person
Welstone - n. any sort of monumental stone carved by the Welsings post-contact with the Thederim
Wersill - adv. (Northoke) ‘get well soon’
Wheelfire - n. electricity
Winsterhand - n. left hand
Winsterhanded - a. left-handed
Witchling - /wɪt͡ʃ.lɪŋ/ n. a tercine in training who has yet to take her vows (nb. witch, in this instance, means ‘wise woman’, thus lit. ‘little wise woman’)
Wocke - n. (Northoke) oak Wrecche - /ɹɛː.t͡ʃə/ n. a ronin, disgraced cnight
Wode - /woʊd̚/ n. the ruler, the ruling body. Both the person and the state are one. Initially democratically elected, then elected for life, then appointed by life, functionally as a monarchy (etym: likely from an undocumented Elandie language ‘head’. A common, though documentably false, folk etymology is that it comes from a Wels word for finger, as in, ‘the one who points at something and makes it happen.’ The origin of this folk etymology is unknown)
Wye - n. a small shrine, typically a statue or idol of a queen
Wyestaine - n. a sacred rock of any kind, though typically a boulder, raised in the Wye and graven with strange images and possibly writing—almost all were defaced by the Wolfings during the Wars of Wolffolk
Wyestone - n. a monumental stone of great size that once stood in the Occule of Eyr
Wyling - n. the priestly class
Wyghts - Eyrsh: /wɑɪt͡sʰ/Wyghts: /wɪt͡sʰ/ n. a language closely related to Eyrsh

Ylamme - /lɑm/ n. a demon; an osing created by the Father (form both singular and plural, though the archaic plural 'ylmre' is sometimes seen in regional and scholarly contexts (etym: unattested Wolfing word of uncertain meaning, possibly ‘ghost’)
Yrl - n. gentleman (cf. earl)