Aslan Languages

Languages, both spoken and written, of the Aslan race, known in their own parlance as the Fteirle, are listed here.

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Description (Specifications)

Spoken, mainstream:

• Trokh: The common language of most Aslan, including those of the Aslan Hierate.

Other Spoken:

• Haeto: A few ultra-conservative clans preserve this older language (e.g. on Bacci).
• Herloohkta: The native language of Roakhoi. It is of Aslan origin with considerable modifications and corruptions caused by Human influences and the long isolation of the world.
• Saktah: An archaic language now almost unknown.
• Trow: A few small clanholds retain use of this historical language, internally.

Written:

• Tleftuawaoirlouheei
• Yoyeaokhtef

Interlingua

• Aslanic: Commonly spoken by Humans in areas of the Dark Nebula, Reaver's Deep and Magyar; utilising Trokh grammar and morphology but with phonology more suited to Human vocalisation.
• Hankakho: A Trokh-Galanglic hybrid used by subjugated Human populations of the Glorious Empire.
• NeoTrokh: An Anglic-Trokh hybrid of Dagudashaag Sector.
• Modern Murrissi: Developed on Atuakhtea (Hlakhoi 2008) for Murrissi residents was the language of Modern Murrissi -- A mixture of Trokh with a smattering of Old Murrissi.

Combined Lexicon (mostly Trokh, others)

A

• Aei'eah: "Opportunity". For example, Yoahraei'eah, the Aslan name for Mavuzog Sector, meaning "Yoahr's Opportunity".

• Aeokhul: An art form; especially musical roars.

• Aewar: "Leader", e.g. of an ahriy.

• Ahfa: Personal relics and talismans kept to honour the ancestors.

• Ahkateikhyair: A general; male commander of a clan's ground forces.

• Ahkyekhyair: An admiral; male commander of a clan fleet.

• Ahr'eah: A platoon.

• Ahriy Tleftuaw'aohkho Firuahko Si'aokhtyeao: "The Pride of Sisters that conquered the Path to the Stars". Literally, "(the) Pride (of) Female Priestesses (that) Sang Domination (over the) Path to the Spirit Heavens".

• Ahriy: "Pride"; a group of related Aslan families.

• Ai yourhai: The first precept, the guiding philosophy of the Aslan people. Its name might be translated roughly as 'thoughts shape the way'. The symbol of ai yourhai is the Aslan hand with fighting claw extended.

• Aikeakha: A sovereign clan controlling multiple mainworlds.

• Aikhaheh: "Starts by Throwing", a name.

• Aikoho siylakht: A female director, usually the female head of the clan merchant fleet.

• Aikoho: "Many ships", usually translated as "fleet".

• Aisai: An Aslan's dewclaw, a 10-centimetre razor-sharp blade that folds like a jack-knife into a horny sheath in the base of the palm. From ai sai, 'blade claw'.

• Aisaiaokhe: A duel of honour over beliefs or grievances so deep that the fight must be to the death. Literally, something akin to "blade claw honour".

• Aisekhokhe entse: "Kinstrife in the stars"; a period in history that peaked with the Aslan Cultural Purge.

• Aisekhokhe: "Kinstrife". The Aslan have no term for 'civil war' -- the closest equivalent is aisekhokhe, where two families in the same clan fight against each other.

• Aiyfta: "Thumb width", roughly 1.25" or 3 cm.

• Akhuaeuhrekhyeh: The Rite of Passage.

• Akhwohkyal: "Born to the Guns of Battle", a name. It refers to one who was born or reborn on the battlefield.

• Akoaft: "Far-Throwing" or "Longhurler", a name. A world in the Trojan Reach Sector is named Akoaft.

• Akyafteirleao: A threat to Aslan culture; heresy or degeneration. Fteirleao ("having the quality of honour") plus Akya- prefix (negation, threat).

• Alr: The number one. A system in the Trojan Reach Sector is named Alr.

• Ao (intake of breath): Immortal spirit, generally used as a metaphor instead of a statement of literal belief in such things.

• Ao ((outflow of breath): "Iron ore".

• Aohkho: Priest or sage. Note similarity to ao plus ko, making something akin to "Immortal Spirit, Oneself".

• Aokhaor: Honour, strength of spirit. Ao plus khaor.

• Aokhol: A moment of clarity and perfect balance, where eaia, action, and universe are in perfect accord; a stepping stone towards khoafteirleao.

• Aor: "New".

• Aoreriyya: Literally translated, this means something like "new garden" (or "new veldt"), from aor (new) and eriyya (pleasant lands); a region of Reaver's Deep Sector so called by Aslan because of the relative abundance of habitable, pleasant worlds.

• Aorlakht: "New lords". In the 1110s, this became a term for ambitious Aslan landowners in the Trans-Rift Colonies.

• Aoshi: An elusive concept or thought. Also the inner moon of Kusyu.

• Areiaao: A sprint, a period of approximately 16 seconds.

• Areiaaofta: "Sprint", the distance an Aslan can run in one areiaao; roughly 150 yards.

• Atiwaw: "Sky".

• Aulryuiysai: Literally, "desert"; usually means "vast" or "expansive".

• Awkhea: Landless, lower-class Aslan; peasants.

E

• Eaia: Inner self.

• Eakh': Literally, "a hunt" or "to hunt".

• Eakhau: An Aslan day.

• Eakhaufta: "Day-marches", the distance an Aslan can walk in a Kusyu day, about 45 miles.

• Eakhyasear: Hunter's rifle.

• Eal: "Gun". Also a subsector in Harea Sector.

• Ear(l): "Wisdom".

• Earleatrais: Referee or arbiter in a court case, war or duel.

• Easokhou: "Armoured Hunter". As a name, it implies one who hunted dangerous prey.

• Eatlo: "Dynasty". Many old clans divide their histories into a series of eatlo, each usually named for the dominant pride of the period.

• Eaueal: Literally, "river gun". An aquatic predatory animal. Some landowners within the Aslan Hierate view it as traditional to create small streams to mark territory boundaries. Many of these streams host this imported eel analogue.

• Eaytyehasoi: "Inconstant Star Domain". The Aslan name for Delta Cephei Subsector of the Beyond Sector.

• Eikhoi: Dusk.

• Eikhoifiruah: "Dusk Song", a chant of praise for a defeated but worthy foe. Also the name of a planet in Dagudashaag Sector.

• Eiwiytlih: A name, literally "wild twilight", a parallel to the Human slogan "we own the night" -- bravado and power in walking unthreatened, indeed threatening, in darkness.

• Eiy Iysaoyar: Roughly translated, 'The Inner Eye' or 'The Inner Sight', a psionic society open to female Aslan.

• Ekawsiykua: Bodyguard or retainer; literally "one trusted by the patriarch to guard his wives".

• Ekaw: Family head, patriarch.

• Ekho: Family.

• Ekhoao: Spiritual family; one's friends and blood brothers. Ekho plus ao.

• Ekhtaowetyu: Rite of asking permission to enter another's territory.

• Eriyya: "Pleasant lands".

• Esou: "Small".

• Esouearl: "Small wisdom", a name. The implication is that the person speaks seldom, but wisely.

• Estalyah: "Thirty Claws", a name denoting tenacity. A minor change in pronunciation makes this "Small Claws", an insult implying that the individual's blows are too puny to cause damage. For this reason, the name is sometimes chosen by those eager to start fights.

• Estekta: Sugar.

F

• Fahr: "Beginning", or "Key". Likely part of the name of Fahreahluis Sector, a border region of the Hierate.

• Firuah: A song, especially a warrior's challenge song

• Firukhte: Ritualised insults or satire designed to provoke a challenge.

• Fiwyi'al: An expensive spice, grown only on Hroilr.

• Fiy: "Vassal of".

• Fiya': Literally, "I am your servant, sir." Spoken as a form of submission to a landowner to beg his permission to enter his land. The meaning encompasses a complex set of mutual obligations and responsibilities.

• Fiyfiyalr: The Imperium. A literal translation would be "Vassals of Vassals of One", an Aslan-slanted view of the Imperial bureaucracy under the Emperor.

• Fiyfiyalrya'ulst: An insult. Roughly translated: Imperial lackey which has soiled itself because it neither understands nor possesses personal honour.

• Fiyftakhau: "Morsel", about 1/4 lb. Light goods (e.g., hand weapons or joints of meat) are weighed in fiyftakhau. Literally, something akin to "vassal-measurement-person".

• Fouheh: Leader of a huiha (clan). This leader would style his name with the ending -ko and would be styled Ko by clan members and vassals who addressed him.

• Ftahea: A time period. Each ftahea is divided into 212 eakhau, with an additional eakhau added every five years.

• Ftahsoul khea Steilliyaoh: Loosely, "indestructible seedpod".

• Ftak: "Measurement", the category.

• Fteftakhau: "Manweight", or about 200 lbs. Literally, something akin to "weight-measurement-man".

• Fteir: "Honour", the honour code.

• Fteirko: Literally, "honour personified" or "honour itself". An Aslan with a detailed knowledge of fteir as practiced by his clan (including a vast body of historical precedent) and the wisdom to apply it correctly in an ethical dilemma.

• Fteirle: The Aslan people. Note this is a cultural descriptor more than a biological -- members of other races who correctly follow Aslan culture are Fteirle.

• Fti'haloia: A special repository for a clan's master copy of its ftiheke'.

• Ftiheke': A poetical record of a clan's notable members and deeds. Roughly, 'chronicles'.

• Ftya Khuika: "Sable Prowlers".

• Ftyehriiy Isouktea: "Unstoppable Pursuit".

• Ftyohaharl: Aiming; e.g. the proverb I' ftyohaharl ki i' hwao, ftyohaharl ki i' hwao ("Not aiming is not hunting, aiming is not hunting").

• Fyowehrya: An administrative office serving as a land and probate registry.

H

• Haaealrai: "Balance" or "discipline", a quality of emotional control.

• Haloia: "Shine", a verb.

• Haloiale Akhwihteair Aloiakht: "Shining Honorable-civilization-of-honour Day"; a holiday.

• Haoakhtesea: "Dwellers of the Damp Earth"; Aslan name for the Mwawmbijebe race.

• Harea: "Faith". Also the name applied to a sector of space spinward of the Hierate; see Harea Sector.

• Hasoi: Land, specifically the landhold of an Aslan lord, reserved for him and his ahryi.

• Heatloi: "Longblade", a name typically chosen by an Aslan who for some reason fights with a spear, Marine-issue cutlass, etc. Those so inclined could make any number of insults out of this.

• Helu: Plains or fields.

• Hkaiyerlikhelu: "Battle Plain of Hkai". Book 4 of the Ukhtaitasoistsea.

• Hkiyrerao: "Curiosity"; "Scientist"; "Research ship or establishment".

• Hlaifieayaher: "The Eye That Watches Over Deeds of Glory".

• Hriytuarl teahrekikhtahah yustetya wyeuaaeirl kheafo'iy'a: A phrase which translates roughly to 'the abomination that comes from the loss of self'. See: Yustetya.

• Hrlrohryukhyelreah: The Ancients.

• Hrokhu: A ship's captain.

• Hrurastea: Blood quest.

• Hryo: "Six", or else roughly six. The term is also used for a squadron.

• Hryolea: An interval of 384 ftahea, or approximately 336.9 standard years.

• Htahryolea: Literally "First Age". This period stretched from prehistory to the founding of the Tlaukhu and the start of the Aslan calendar. This era encompassed both the Leakhtefu, or "first stage of enlightenment" (roughly -3050 to -2260) as well as the first three Aslan world wars.

• Htahyu: First or pre-eminent place. A clan seat or administrative centre for a single family.

• Htoi: Literally, green (more accurately a blue-green); means "bountiful land"; implies space for ranching herds.

• Htoifteirlakht: Literally, "the bountiful lands ruled by the lords of honour", or more idiomatically, "all the places where the followers of fteir live". This is the Aslan's own name for what Humans call the Aslan Hierate. If the Humans want to make up another unintelligible barbarian noise to represent the concept, that's their option. From Htoi, fteir, and lakht.

• Htoihelu: Literally, "Greenfield". Name of an Aslan city in Hkai.

• Huweihwoweiy: A concept that might be translated as 'with us in spirit'; a person or a people acting in accordance with the highest ideals of Aslan philosophy. For example, the Zodia Colonies are Humans that are huweihwoweiy, and thus honourable.

• Hwai: "Now", an imperative.

• Hwaifakhle: "Plenty", a season; eroded form of "The now-imperative us hunting" time.

• Hwaioyftieree: "Hearthside", a season (eroded form of "Now-imperative to the flames gather"-time).

• Hwaihetyew Ftaeileao: "Testing of Fortitude", a season; eroded form of "Now-imperative we chase strength").

• Hwao: "Hunting".

• Hwarls'e: "Split", a verb.

• Hyreastarl: The number 440 (base 8), or 288 in base 10.

• Hyufteirlerye: Literally, "Gathering of the People". The word is commonly translated as "city" but could also refer to a market place, a convocation of clan leaders for administering judgment, or even a rioting mob.

I

• Iroioah: "Claw of Legend". This is a name and refers to the Aslan's duelling prowess.

• Iykhaiser: "Area of Empty Spaces". The Aslan name for Theron Sector.

• Iyoar: The shape held by the lips when sniffing the air for a pleasant scent.

• Iyweahataau: A coin, of little value.

K

• Ka'ah: "Slow".

• Ka'tai: "You have my gracious consent"; response of a Lord who has been paid correct obeisance by others entering his land.

• Kaiear: "Pistol Wisdom", a name. The main connotation is of one who enforces clan law or clan honour by force of arms, although there is a secondary implication of expertise with sidearms.

• Ke'heiwaitfyakhoakaola Iifakhtkhto: "Celebrating the Hunt", a holiday; ("it-we-jointly-confirm-importantly the hunt-event").

• Ke'kheii'ahkeilifaktlaiyele Aloiakht: "Victory Day" ("The various strong huntings day").

• Kesaural Yawu'i Yastei'ah Aohatai: "Aohalai Warriors of the Wind-torn Peaks". A security division for the Aohalai clan's trading corporation AoSpace.

• Khailifakht: The outback on Kusyu, the hunting grounds of great lords. Also, "wilderness". Though apparently unused, it is generally part of a lord's landholds, or hasoi.

• Khao: Strength, the stronger, strength in a person.

• Khaofiy: Ritual submission in a duel. Literally, "submission to the stronger". The ritual apology due the victor of an Aslan duel-of-honour.

• Khau: "Person", "man".

• Khaufta: "Man-height", about 6 feet or 2 meters.

• Khaulear: One hundred in base 8; equivalent to 64 in base 10. It is sometimes used as a name; the bearer has done something many times (he would like you to think 64 times or more) -- perhaps killed 64 foes, made 64 successful trading missions, or even lived 64 years. Ask him, and he'll tell you.

• Khihe: Polite honorific for an Aslan unknown to you.

• Khir: "Warrior".

• Kho riyekh: Roughly, "submersion of self".

• Khoafteirleao: Spiritual perfection attained by acting in perfect accord with one's nature. Literally, "the quality of strength-honour".

• Khoiaya: "Armour".

• Kir: Literally, "an unmarried female who has exchanged her control of a company for the control held by another unmarried female of another clan after both intermarried with warriors of the corresponding clan".

• Koiyekh: A secret Aslan warrior's society dedicated to severing all contact with the tahiwihteakhtau (barbarians) who threaten to contaminate the purity of Aslan thought, honour, and akhaoye (being or reality).

• Khtauaao: Time period lasting just under eighteen minutes.

• Khyeiryos: A trickster, a legendary creature known for its shrewd and deceitful nature. It is used as a slang term for Humans.

• Khtyei: "Holding" or "possession".

• Khyuruatre: "Beast Lore". A name. This has one of several meanings; depending on the user's inclination, it could indicate knowledge of wildlife and its ways, prowess in telling legends about mythical creatures, etc.

• Ko: Literally, "Oneself" or "Himself". As a suffix, it is added to the name of a clan to create the title of the head of that clan.

• Koso: A clan representative to the Tlaukhu who bears delegated authority from the ko.

• Kteli: "Fork", to divide in two directions.

• Ktelih: Head of a pride; the apex point that forks downward.

• Kti: A slang term for "slime"; used also to refer to a fungal lifeform on Ka'aheakh.

• Ktiskheao: "Talks With Three Spirits". A name, indicating an Aslan who can see the viewpoints of others and negotiate with them effectively. He is said to speak with the spirit of his own clan, that of the clan with whom he is dealing, and the spirit of honour. The name is fairly common among traders and envoys.

• Ktouftetlaos: "Flow like Water". An ancient warrior society based on Kusyu.

• Ktyaea: "Jump", a verb, in the context, "to employ the jump drive".

• Ktyuikeasiyyorl: "The Words Under Which We Die". This is the formal duelling code of the Aslan, and sets out all aspects of the ensuing combat.

• Kyatulyare: "Stream of Stars". The Aslan name for Iphigenaia Sector.

L

• Lakht: "Landowner", thus, "lord".

• Layeau: "River valley".

• Layeaukhtyei: Loosely, "labyrinth without end". A world in Beyond Sector is named Layeaukhtyei.

• Leakhtefu: The Aslan Age of Enlightenment (circa -3000 to -2200).

• Likht: "Father". The similarity to Lakht, "landowner", should be noted.

• Lu'uifakte: Computer information centre or library.

O

• Oakhhafuh: "Facepaint". Used as a name, it implies the use of camouflage, and thus advertises the individual's sneakiness at war or on the hunt. It is therefore not much used in clans that consider such cunning dishonourable.

• Oistiea: A teacher, headmaster. The female tutor to the clan head's children.

• Ourah-huiha: Clan War.

R

• Rao: "Food".

• Rau'hktearaol: "Interceptor", a fast, heavily armed ship.

• Rukt'hao: "Private investigator". Rukt plus 'hao (implying a dishonourable actor themselves investigating dishonour).

• Rukhta: A word perhaps best translated as 'anathema' or 'cursed', although it has been rendered as 'crimes of honour' by some Human writers. There are several hoaawli or "schools" of behaviour which place greater demands on the individual regarding acceptable acts. Most of these add additional rukhta to the common list.

• Rukhtiywe: There is no easy counterpart in any Human tongue, but the word embodies the concept of denying one's own Aslan nature and heritage, and as such is certainly rukhta.

• Rukhiywe: Committing rukta; acting in a non-Aslan way.

• Ruktaha: District inhabited by Outcasts.

S

• Sai-iysa: "Claw-Killers"; assassin mercenaries.

• Seretyerl: A specially delegated representative of an Aslan clan empowered with the authority to speak on behalf of the clan leader.

• Shi: "Swift".

• Shifaowoi: A popular cooking spice.

• Si'iaktae: A gift of hospitality by a landowner after one enters his domain; being under the protection of a landowner.

• Si'khiraeokhaor: A warrior's code of honour; what must be done.

• Sihouweililyiuahryi: "Your pride calls to you"; a cry for help.

• Siya: "Unmarried".

• Siyajkhoara: A female who has taken an oath to remain unmarried, who dedicates her life to her clan.

• Siyreakhaotoior: Classic Aslan literature.

• Soarl: "Special, elite". Sometimes used as a prefix.

• Soistsea: Unknown lands; the frontier.

• Su'ikh: "Shield".

• Suya'uiyekhyerl: A combat variant of the standard heavy vacc suit, incorporating extra armour plating and weapon mounts.

• Syar: To seek, to search.

• Syareahtaorl: Usually translated as "quest".

T

• Tahiwihteakhtau: "Barbarian". A sophont outside of the Aslan culture, not expected to understand or follow their cultural expectations.

• Tahktirtyu: "Scarcity of Game", a season; from "Lacking pouncing grounds"

• Tahuhakil: Written weahakhil where the glyphs reflect the action of the poem.

• Tai'ao: One of the air demons of ancient Aslan mythology. Sometimes pictured as guardians of heaven.

• Takhestah: Long Pistol, the basic Aslan semi-automatic handgun. It is similar in nature to the Human automatic pistol, but uses a 20-magazine. The takhestah cartridge is common to the khaihte and the khaifealate as well.

• Talat: "Book". Plural is tala.

• Talaryu: Aslan personal weapon favored by mercenaries and high-ranking nobles; a double-ended, crescent-shaped blade.

• Tao: Symbol-units of Trokh yoyeaokhtef script. One tao carries the meaning of a discrete word or phrase.

• Taorl: Fortune, honour, responsibility.

• Tarohaka: Literally, 'the water that flows without being forced'. This and the philosophy of taro ('it comes') is considered a virtue among Aslan.

• Tehlaicho: Strictly Limited War, a gradient of honourable conflict between clans.

• Tehleikhol: Loosely translated, "Knights of the Setting Sun" or "Soldiers of the Falling Night"; a mercenary group in Dark Nebula Sector.

• Tihka: "Thunderer".

• Tlankhu: "Fifth Counsel", a name. The "fifth option" is a "thinking outside the box" kind of idea. A star system in the Beyond Sector is named Tlankhu.

• Tlasayerlahel: "Interstellar Merchants". Tlasayerlahel is an Aslan megacorporation.

• Tlasolstsaa: "Bounty of new lands". Sometimes used formally to describe a reward of land for valiant effort. The term denotes new lands or worlds for the taking by those upright and correct in spirit and, as such, can denote a kind of Aslan heaven. Book 5 of the Ukhtaitasoistsea.

• Tlauftahea: "Thirty Years". In Aslan mythology, the time during which the Tlaukhu was organized. The number is actually 24 in the Aslan base 8 numeric system, and in any case probably doesn't refer to a literal period of time. Book 1 of the Ukhtaitasoistsea.

• Tlaukhu'hal: Gathering of the Twenty-Nine. Book 2 of the Ukhtaitasoistsea.

• Tlehiui: "Counsel of the Clan" a name. Most often used by a fteirko, this alludes to the respect the user's clan give to his or her opinions.

• Tleiatre: A warlord; a leader of military forces.

• Trekhyair: The local defense forces of an Aslan landhold or clan.

• Trileaia: Laser Light. From trilea (Light) and eaia (Inner Self). Light that is true to itself, or of only one frequency.

• Truftakhau: "Mealweight", about 4 lbs. Literally, something akin to "meal-measurement-person"; measurement of a person's meal.

• Tye: Literally "tiny sun"; star or stars. Some star systems in Aslan territory have names incorporating this word, among them a system in the Aoiftu Roakh simply called Tye.

• Tyeao: Literally, "star-spirits".

• Tyeyo Fteahrao Yolr: "Tyeyo Dustspice Importers".

• Tyeyo: Literally, "Light of Ancestry"; the Aslan sun.

U

• Ua'haloi: "Bright", from haloia, "shine".

• Ua'kawaie: Male; masculine.

• Ua'khiyre: Female; feminine.

• Ua'ktyaea: "Jump-capable", from ktyaea, "jump".

• Ua'hwarls'e: "Broken", from hwarls'e, "split".

• Uealaao: A unit of time equal to 1.988 standard seconds. It is the smallest unit of time in common use by the Aslan. There are 8 uealaao in each areiaao.

• Uealikhe: Carbine.

• Uiuiryehka Ftosoiei: "The place where there has never been anything to hunt"; a colloquial Aslan name for Jikhyrleirla Subsector.

• Ukhtai: "Hero". The Aslan meaning pictures one who is perfectly in accord with the Aslan dictates of aokhaor and akhaoye. Ukhtai was also the name of the first Aslan starship, and is Book 3 of the Ukhtaitasoistsea.

• Ukhtai eaiawehi: "Company of Heroes". A belief that Aslan are surrounded by a vast and unseen throng of those who have gone before.

• Ukhtaifahr: Roughly, "Hero's Beginning". A place name for ruins north of Htoihehu.

• Ulkaodhianeak: "Land of White Bones".

W

• Wafoua: "Remembrance". It is often used as a name; one of many names intended to fish for questions. A listener is sure to ask "remembrance of what?"; the bearer can then sit back and spin a story of their experience.

• Weahakhil: Poems similar to haiku that are composed extemporaneously.

• Weakhto: "Battle".

• Wui': "Flat".

• Wuieia Ktyo: "Hungry Chaser".

• Wyoeua: A female who oversees the finances of a family. Literally, "lady who bargains".

• Wyoleao: A clan administrative office acting as treasury and revenue department.

Y

• Ya'uiya: Dishonour. The word has been used to describe a kind of Aslan hell: "death-with-forgetting", i.e., to die and not be remembered by clan or family.

• Ya'uiyekh: Literally "emptiness". Extinction.

• Yakh'le: Assassins; literally, "they who pounce".

• Yao: A doorway or entrance.

• Yaeatyeao: "The gateway to heaven", where the star-spirits of Aslan warrior heroes and their deeds are remembered.

• Yeheal: Autorifle.

• Yehstahwye: "Thirty Pounces" or "Thirty Leaps"; a name. Normally used to denote stamina (the bearer could make 30 leaps before tiring), it could also mean that the user is a veteran assassin who has successfully carried out 30 missions.

• Yerlik: "Battle", noun; especially a formal, referee-monitored contest between two parties.

• Yerlikhelu: Literally, "battle-plains". The arranged place of meeting for a formal, referee-monitored battle.

• Yohai: Lost or outcast.

• Yohai'eah: Literally "one who has lost opportunity". Also used to describe outcasts.

• Yokeyatiy: A female medical doctor; the personal physician to the clan head.

• Yoyeaokhtef: A blend of Aslan concepts -- sometimes translated as PDC, for poem-drama-calligraphy -- as a single artform.

• Yurletya: A weapon, a Spear-Hook. One end of this Polearm is a spear, the other a grappling hook.

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