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Mon: translation + context (100 words of Borlish +) Tues-Thurs: dictionary entry + etymology + example sentence Fri: in-universe excerpt (250 words +)

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salbrut "saltpetre"

salbrut /salˈbrɪt/ [salˈbʀɪt]

saltpetre, potassium nitrate, a chemical compound with the formula KNO₃ found as a white powder with a sharp and bitter taste;

(formerly) any of similar compounds such as sodium nitrate

Etymology: Middle Borlish, borrowed from Scholastic Latin sāl brūtus "dull salt". This is a folk-etymological adaption of Arabic بَارُود • bārūd "saltpetre; gunpowder", which is of uncertain origin. The term brut for a general nitrate was derived from the name of this substance in the eighteenth century.

Y pouvr contien salbrut, carbon e brunstan. /i puvr̩ kɔnˈtjɛn salˈbrɪt | karˈbɔn e brɪnˈstan/ [i ˈpu.vɐ kʊnˈtjɛn sɐlˈbʀɪt | kɐːˈbɔn e bʀɪnˈstan] df powder contain saltpetre | charcoal and sulphur The powder contains saltpetre, charcoal and sulphur.

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pighar "bugger"

pighar /paˈjar/ [pɐˈʝɐː]

bugger, top, to penetrate in the course of anal sex;

(loosely) fuck, to have sex with;

screw, cheat, ruin, to deceive or to scupper the chances of by underhanded means

Etymology: disputed. Attested since the eleventh century in late Old Borlish piȝar "bugger", making it the second-oldest vulgarity for intercourse after foutr "fuck" < Latin futuō "I fuck". Possibly the word is a dialectal form of piglar "plunder, pillage"—compare Old Borlish caiȝ "toggle" < Vulgar Latin cavicla "latch". Alternatively, it might derive directly from Latin pēdīcō "I bugger" (although the word has no other descendants).

A tug tesqual le pig jo sur y paið. /a taj tɛˈskwal le paj ʒo sɪr i peθ/ [a taj tɪˈskwal le paj ʝo sɪː‿ʀi peθ] to passion natural 3s.m bugger 1s on df floor To keep it real I fuck him on the floor.

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coricheyar "zhoosh"

coricheyar /ˌko.riˈkjar/ [ˌko.ʀɪˈkjɐː]

(of fabric) to decorate with chintz patterns;

(of a person) to dress in chintz-patterned fabric;

(of a room) to fill with chintz-patterned items of furniture;

(colloquial) zhoosh, spruce, finesse, spice up, to make more appealing or exciting

Etymology: 19C, verbal derivation from noun coricot "chintz (fabric, clothing, furniture)", as though the -ot ending were a diminutive suffix. The noun comes from the city of Coricot [Kozhikode] in Limerick [~Kerala, India], from where the fabric was exported. In metaphorical usage the term is seen from the 1950s.

Sy femn a y cambr coricheyað. /si fɛmn̩ a i kambr̩ ˌko.riˈkjaθ/ [si ˈfɛm‿na‿i ˈkam.bɐ ˌko.ʀɪˈkjaθ] 3s.gn wife have df room chintz-p.pst His wife has fillled his house with chintz.

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Mashick

notes in translation on the Mendevan [North American] polity of Mashick [~Mexico].

Vascel Morracan ny Colluy dy Nou Mont stablisceurn ligaçon commarcer ny siecr quinç jagerrem coll'Empir Mascic joun naðusc, oc stant nell'oç epoc fort circonscreutessem cos geographic. Morrack vessels of the New World Company established trading relations in the late fifteenth century with the relatively-new Mashick Empire, which at that time was much more geographically restricted.

Ny dezein prosequent seget Novomondin monfeyað se correurn tras l'occeyan Atlantic des Mascic, com bustr tascban e scoclet. The next decades saw many Novomundine crops make their way across the Atlantic from Mashick, including tashban and shockle.

Mascic e Tavancy luïsceurn sona de mojol por y geoscopy dy païsaç Mendevan. Mashick and Tavancy served as bases for exploration of Mendevan lands.

Flottisc carteyaurn cos slognað allors jusc l'Ax, e Mascic sarveu a gournanç issarr sur porçon dell'Arcabil e lorry risceç aðoyent. Fleets charted as far afield as the Ax, and Mashick was used to exercise control over parts of the Arcabil and their growing riches.

Mascic ny siecr novoç intermane un entrell'amaçgat ðescnat dell'Ubictað, y doctrin politic smargent. Nineteenth-century Mashick was one of the hotbeds of the nascent political philosophy of Ubiquity.

Lo traiscnau Mendeva Brittannesc cas l'adopçon dy novel moraltað des y Renovellaçon Famigler, ma con tan ny siecr veintem primal l'aye lou attegnt. It lagged behind British Mendeva in the adoption of the new morals of the Household Renovation, although by the early twentieth century it had caught up.

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Chemical Etymology (cont. 5)

further excerpts about gases from the Veriloquace Glossary of Alchemy, a reference quire compiled by Rotcham University Primers [1].

aphlox n. [/ˈa.flɔks/ "carbon dioxide"] a colourless and unsmelling air which is the principal product of the burning of e.g. plant matter in fresh air, exhaled by animals. 1699 < Scholastic Latin āēr aphlox "aphlox air" < Greek ἀφλόξ • aphlóx "flameless". The term formerly referred to any air in which burning could not occur, gaining its current sense in the late eighteenth century.

aureol n. [/ˈəu.ʒɔl/ "helium"] the corporal [element] whose atoms have 2 mora [protons], a colourless and unsmelling air which is sparser than any air except aquifer [hydrogen]. 1831 < Scholastic Latin corōna aureola "golden crown" < Classical aureolus "gilded, golden" < aurum "gold". This is a doublet of aureole [/əuˈʒuːl/ "halo; corona"], which refers both to the crown of light worn by saints and to the crown of light wreathing the sun. The corporal aureol was first observed in the sun's aureole via its iris [spectrum] in 1816.

ignifer n. [/ˈai.nɪ.fə/ "oxygen"] the corporal whose atoms have 8 mora, a colourless and unsmelling air occurring as one-fifth of air in tesquo and necessary for animal life and for burning. 1699 < Scholastic Latin āēr ignifer "igniferous air" < Classical ignis "flame". The term formerly referred to any air in which burning could occur, gaining its current sense in the late eighteenth century.

noxal n. [/ˈnɔ.ksəl/ "nitrogen"] the corporal whose atoms have 7 mora, a colourless and unsmelling air occurring as almost four-fifths of air in tesquo. 1772 < Scholastic Latin āēr noxālis "noxal air" < 1674 terra noxālis "muriate of ammony" [NH₄Cl] < c1550 noxaterra < adapted to terra "earth" from c13C Malchassian νοξάτερα • noxátera < Classical Persian نُشَادِر • nushádir "æq". Noxal air was first isolated in 1772 by combining muriate of ammony with psolic salbrute [KNO₂].

[1] a publishing house based in the city of Rotcham [Rochdale, Greater Manchester] and affiliated with the local university.

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pharmac "drug"

pharmac /farˈmak/ [fɐːˈmak]

medication, pharmaceutical, drug, medicine, a substance ingested or injected to heal or otherwise affect the health of a patient;

(historical) charm, talisman, fetish, amulet, an item which has been enchanted to have a magical effect (especially promoting harm or healing);

remedy, fix, solution, silver bullet, an unexpected method of solving a seemingly intractable problem

Etymology: Medieval Borlish, borrowed from Latin pharmacum "drug; poison", from Greek φάρμακον • phármakon "drug; potion; dye". The historical use persists in parachthon [e.g. fantasy] writing, having fallen into disuse in post-Arnoutszen medicine; the metaphorical extension is attested from as early as the sixteenth century.

Jo suim un pharmac contr cauvanç. /ʒo saim ɪn farˈmak kɔntr̩ koˈvants/ [ʝo saim ɪn fɐːˈmak ˈkɔn.tɐ kʊˈvans] 1s take.1s indf drug against balding I take a hair loss medication.

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sine sanguine "morganatic"

sine sanguine /siˈne ˌsan.gaiˈne/ [sɪˈne ˌsaŋ.gɐiˈne]

morganatic, (of a marriage) not entitling the children of the marriage to inherit the property or titles of the father;

life, for life, (of a position or role) not automatically passed on to one's heir upon one's death;

second-rate, second-class, B-tier, lacking features of the best or most prestigious alternatives

Etymology: Middle Borlish, legal jargon from Latin from sine sanguine "morganatic", literally "without blood". The ablative sanguine is a byform of sanguis "blood", which via a Vulgar accusative sanguem gave Borlish sanc "blood". In extended use the phrase is seen from the nineteenth century.

Y nobr sine sanguine intermainn noc un clou innað. /i ˈnɔbr̩ siˈne ˌsan.gaiˈne ˌɪn.tɛrˈmenn̩ nɔk ɪn klu ɪˈnaθ/ [i ˈnɔ.bɐ sɪˈne ˌsaŋ.gɐiˈne ˌɪn.tɪːˈme.nɐn nɔ‿gɪŋ ˈklu ɪˈnaθ] df noble morganatic make.up-3p ng indf clove innate The life peers don't constitute a natural voting bloc.

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enmigtað "rivalry"

enmigtað /ˌɛn.maiˈtaθ/ [ˌɛn.mɐiˈtaθ]

enmity, hostility, the condition of being enemies or at cross-purposes;

rivalry, competitiveness, a desire to defeat one's opponents;

rancour, animosity, a feeling of ire for someone over a perceived wrongdoing

Etymology: Middle Borlish, noun derivation from enmig "enemy, rival". This descends directly from Latin inimīcus "enemy", literally "un-friend". For the sense developments, compare parallel constructions in other Romance languages such as Portingale nemizade or Norman enmisté "rivalry".

L'accommission se cof interront par y sounç d'enmigtað. /ˌla.kɔ.mɪˈsjɔn se kɔf ˌɪn.tɛˈrɔnt par i sunts ˌdɛn.maiˈtaθ/ [ˌla.kʊ.mɪˈsjɔn sɪ kɔf ˌɪn.tɪˈʀɔnt pɐ‿ʀi suns ˌdɛn.mɐiˈtaθ] df=undertaking rfl get.pst interrupt.p.pst by df release of=rivalry The project was interrupted by the outbreak of hostilities.

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Medieval Denmark

notes in translation on Denmark in the medieval period.

Danmarc es un polity peninsoler se situant entr y Mar Norðer e Gravinic. Denmark is a peninsular polity located between the North and Graven Seas.

Danmarc sta un part dell'eiðel dy pouvr Dannesc durant y Paramontað Dannesc nell'epoc dy Mitað-Asc, dont sorten gazou viking eð accommission fragossaver. Denmark was part of the homeland of the Danes during the Dane Supremacy in the medieval period, from which viking raids and colonisation projects left.

Y regnour d'Istr Boral eð y bempart de Larry Dannesc pall'oc epoc broucan linaç ant orin ne Danmarc. The rulers of Borland and much of Dane England during this time were dynasties originating in Denmark.

A mesur dy siecr seç Danmarc intermane sodal dy Concert Dannesc, un union monarchal de stat norðer. During the sixteenth century Denmark was part of the Dane Concert, a monarchic union of northern states.

Y famigl reyal acommis un gran aðendrment de lorry reyaum pall'annað pres d'an 1560, loy visitant com Albourg. The royal family undertook a grand tour of their realm in the years around 1560, visiting places like Alburgh.

L'oc sta y period yon Revitalism cof presenç a Danmarc, con interrogaçon alcheðr de scrit Classic. It was this period which saw Revitalism reach Denmark, with renewed interrogation of Classical texts.

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Um, Actually…

excerpt from the answer key for the Conster Open School's 2010 scitation paper on Government in the Drengot Collusion, 1936–61, taken from the quick-fire "In Fact" section. This consisted of incorrect statements; examinees had to identify and correct the mistakes.

In 1941, the Ministry for Consequences was given the authority to name all proposed acts, laws or regulations. —While Consequences had this authority in almost all cases, they did not have this power when the legislation was proposed by Consequences itself.

During these years, the Ministry for Information was located in a brick-faced building in Roun [Rouen] officially known as the Red House. —"The Red House" was an entirely unofficial name for 1 rue d'Abiscandre, popularised by newspapers of the Russet Dove writing guild.

The Darchild memorandum, made public in 1960, included correspondence from then-leader Romney Darchild discussing the Ministry of Information's discreditable clandestine activities and corruption. —The memorandum included several missives sent to, but not from, Romney Darchild. Darchild used this fact to unsuccessfully claim ignorance of the Red House's activities during the Furore of 1961.

The Collusion imported astraphor [electricity] in this period from polities including Bavarn and Portingale. —The Collusion was always a net exporter of astraphor; Bavarn and Portingale were two of its many customers.

Civic celebrations were held through 1952 to mark the centenary of the formation of the New Urban Mesh, seen as the forerunner to the Drengot Collusion. —The 1952 celebrations marked the political union of Norman Kent, France and Burgundy in 1852, which predated the formation of the New Urban Mesh by thirteen years.

The revolutionary sect known as the Carpenters rose to prominence with the attempted bombing of the 1940 Yansieve conference in London. —The plot targeted the 1940 state funeral of Honorine Maignard in that city. She was an author, Millstone War veteran and ambassador to Ghana from 1925 to 1935.

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panelleyar "theme"

panelleyar /ˌpa.nɛˈljar/ [ˌpa.nɪˈljɐː]

tessellate, to assemble into a space-covering arrangement;

pattern, copy, imitate, repeat, to cause to be in a repeating arrangement or to replicate an existing arrangement elsewhere;

theme, to align various features of something to all conform to a single concept

Etymology: Middle Borlish, verbal derivation from panel "panel; motif, template", originally "swatch of fabric, panel of wood". This descends via a Vulgar Latin diminutive from Latin pannus "cloth, rag".

Feir panelleyað dell'ec stoir hamtn y hamblot. /fir ˌpa.nɛˈljaθ dɛˈlɛk ˈstɔir hamtn̩ i hamˈblɔt/ [ˈfi.jɐ ˌpa.nɪˈljaθ ˌdɛ.lɪkˈstɔ.jɐ ˈham.tɐn i hɐmˈblɔt] fair pattern-p.pst of-df=p.px story reside-3p df village The village has fetes themed around these tales.

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engin "nature"

engin /ɛnˈʒɪn/ [ɪɲˈʝɪn]

nature, character, an innate quality;

disposition, inclination, habit, the way in which someone is apt to behave;

talent, ability, skill, unpractised capability;

(historical) onager, catapult, battering ram, any of several types of siege engine

Etymology: from Old Borlish engeȝn "talent; siege machine", inherited in the first sense from Latin ingenium "nature, cleverness" and borrowed from Old French cognate engin "cleverness; siege machine" (from the same Latin word) in the second sense. The historical use is based on first-millennium writers such as the younger Isidore, who copied it from late Classical authors. The sense "nature" was reinforced by theological writing in the Second Tetrarchy period (1028–c.1200) which contrasted ingenium "nature" with accidentia "happenstance".

Sy vray engin quonda sou y sboc ligs. /si vre ɛnˈʒɪn kwɔnˈda su i sbɔk laiz/ [si vʀe ɪɲˈʝɪn kwʊnˈda su‿i zbɔk laiz] 3s.gn true nature lurk-ipf under df smirk smooth The easy smile belied his true nature.

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scrim "swordplay"

scrim /xrɪm/ [xʀɪm]

swordplay, fencing, the art or skill of fighting with blades;

scuffle, skirmish, clash, a minor or disorganised physical confrontation (also metaphorical);

banter, repartee, persiflage, rapid witty or combative back-and-forth in conversation

Etymology: early modern borrowing from Tuscan scrima "swordplay", a deverbal from scrimire (also schermire) "fence, fight with swords". This itself was borrowed from Lombard Dutch skirmen or Frankish skirmian "protect, shield", both from Classical German scirmis "pelt; covering, shelter". Extension to verbal sparring is seen from the late eighteenth century.

Y dottr dy marchis er sy scrim parcorrent. /i dɔtr̩ di marˈkɪz ɛr si xrɪm ˌpar.kɔˈrɛnt/ [i ˈdɔ.tɐ di mɐːˈkɪz ɛː si xʀɪm ˌpɐː.kʊˈʀɛnt] df daughter of-df marquess cop.ipf 3s.gn swordplay scan-p.prs The marquess's daughter did fencing practice.

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Second Roman Empire

notes in translation on the Second Roman Empire from the first millennium through the Second Tetrarchy period.

Plusour heresy Chrestan ayen lorrell'orin ny Scon Empir Roman, cos particuler durant y preu millenner. Many Christian heresies had their origins in the Second Roman Empire, especially in the first millennium.

L'ec son abrangent de casc y 'heresy Greçan' noncupað, tan com Marmeronism. These include all the so-called 'Grecian heresies', as well as Marmeronism.

Candon parson nell'Empir ec tal sentenç sposant acavau a influyenç signfeyant accarr, l'Empir se pone nacleu a lou exiglar vars communtað monastic slognað. When individuals in the Empire who espoused such viewpoints acquired significant influence, the Empire had a propensity for exiling them to far-flung monastic communities.

A mesur dy Scon Tetrarchy, l'Empir attegneu un zantr cas eðegl (alcant y concarnç de Derban d'an 1206), yon lo gournau feu des Corsc nell'ovest vars y Mar Hazaran nell'aust. During the Second Tetrarchy, the Empire reached a territorial maximum (with the capture of Derban in 1026), controlling lands from Corse in the west to the Hazaran [Caspian] Sea in the east.

Interim, pall'oc epoc y region peripheral broucaurn autonomy signfeyant, cos particuler yonoscon l'autortað sovran dy Papacy Roman incombisce maissem ag possenç de Stamboul. However, by this time the outlying regions enjoyed significant autonomy, especially where the independent power of the Roman Papacy loomed larger than the might of Stamboul.

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Chemical Symbols

excerpt from the appendices of the Veriloquace Glossary of Alchemy, a reference quire compiled in 2003 by Rotcham University Primers.

…one hundred tabres to the ton.

Alchemical Emblems

The origins of our modern muster of alchemical emblems—symbols which represent the known corporals [elements]—lie in the ancient astronomy of Egypt and Greece, and in the early years of the Second Roman Empire ruled from Stamboul [Istanbul]. The former associated seven celestial bodies with the "noble metals". The latter supplied each of them with early forms of the emblems that we use to this day.

Notation for alchemy circumnavigated the Middlesea [Mediterranean] over the next thousand years. By 1200 it had entered Western Europe via Morrack and Andalus. In the process, the addition of new substances like coholl of athimar [stibnite] and various eagers [acids] to alchemists' repertoires necessitated the introduction of new emblems to refer to them. Most of these didn't survive. In many cases, these new symbols were used by only a single alchemist in their personal notes. Many alchemists intentionally devised their own symbols in order to prevent their discoveries being replicated.

Rationalisation began in the seventeenth century. Many substances were demonstrated to be compounds of more fundamental substances. Soon the notion of a corporal (one of the fundamental constituents of all matter) was formalised as distinct from the classical notion of an element, especially once water was proven to be itself a compound of aquifer [hydrogen] and ignifer [oxygen] in 1776, at the start of the Long Peace period.

New discoveries of corporals abounded in The Long Peace. Some classical emblems were repurposed. For example, the old emblems for air and fire are nowadays used to denote noxal [nitrogen] and ignifer, respectively. Towards the end of the period, in 1816, Stiláge Anna-Dorota recorded the iris [spectrum] of aureol [helium], but this would not be recognised as a new corporal for a dozen years. It was the first corporal given a symbol before it was isolated on Earth.

Corporals like killdark [uranium] and…

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reliquy "fossil"

reliquy /ˌre.liˈkwai/ [ˌʀe.lɪˈkwai]

relic, that which persists after loss or decay;

(mathematics) remainder, the quantity obtained by subtracting a divisor from a dividend as many times as possible without producing a negative result;

fossil, the mineralised remains of an living organism;

throwback, holdover, atavism, an item or person which has qualities of an older form of something;

skeuomorph, a feature copied from an older technology which no longer has a functional role

Etymology: Middle Borlish, reclassicised form of Old Borlish relic after the Latin reliquiae "remains, leftovers, survivors", from relinquō "I leave behind". The term has been used in mathematics since the fifteenth century, in geology since the seventeenth, and in product design since the late nineteenth.

La trovau doçan de reliquy sur y play. /la troˈvo doˈtsan de ˌre.liˈkwai sɪr i ple/ [la tʀʊˈvo dʊˈtsan de ˌʀe.lɪˈkwai sɪː‿ʀi ple] 3s.f find-pst dozen of fossil on df beach She found dozens of fossils on the beach.