I feel like you must have answered this before but I can't find it anywhere so I'll just ask: What's the Angaran greeting, "Stars and skies", in Shelesh? They say it all the time but I can't find it in Shelesh anywhere.......
"Neranj tev haavolanj!"
At least as far as my own work goes! I don't think it's used as a greeting so much as an exclamation though.
I've also got "Sleep with the stars" -- Sleefim'do tev neranj, and "****ing stars!" -- Skkutja neranj! and "Black star!" -- Pivos nera! as curses. There are a few more intimate phrases that I've used stars for as well...😁
Imagine a poster advertising for a beautiful and colorful festival on Aya.
I was inspired by the song “He Mele No Lilo” from Lilo & Stitch and thought: certainly the Angara do have regional, seasonal festivals and reasons to celebrate and dance. In some parts of Aya there might even be some kind of Hawaiian culture. Because - why the hell not?! :D There’s more than just dull military missions like in ME 1 - 3, there is life, history, culture, art!
Certain song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIwUjrvaXjM
That got your attention didn’t it? God I hope it did anyways
So hello lovely followers! - Oh geez there’s even more of you now eep hi! Welcome! ♥ - I have a question for you today!
A request, rather. I am trying to figure out specifics for some sort of giveaway since I’m now sitting at 361 followers - I am not worthy omg ;^; - BUT BEFORE THAT-
I NEED YOUR HELP - YOUR HEADCANONS AND OPINIONS! ABOUT- *drum roll*
Human x Angara Hybrids, Pregnancy, etc, etc.
Spoilerish? Maybe. Oh well. Y’all been asking for it anyways so whatevs. But I’m working with little source material and almost no pre-existing fanon here, so I want to hear your opinions!
I have a pretty solid opinion on the looks of a hybrid SO, I’m more so looking for headcanons on the abilities, the pregnancy, gestation period, yada yada.
Anything relating to humans and angara having babbies, essentially. Anything!
Hit me up? ♥ Replies, asks, whatever, let me know!
Is this blog still active? If yes - do you have words for "please", "thank you", and common Angara meals? Thanks in advance!
Hallo! Good to hear from you @desdouxjardins! Hopefully these words will work for you. I don’t have a lot of meal/food words so lmk if you have something specific in mind. Hope to see what you’re working on, feel free to message or @ me, I love to see how writers and artists use the AEP material.
wyr - n - food, things to eat
wyraav - n - a meal
wyrir - v - to eat, consume
riwraav - n, adj - a small meal
lewraav - n, adj - a large meal
tavum - n - a pleasant intoxicant added to hot water or fruit juice.
elmohk - n - an edible yellow fruit growing out of red trumpet flowers.
gemiil - n - friut, fleshy reproductive housing of seeds
giil - n - milk or oil products in solid form, similar to ghee or butter
giilabe - n - milk, liquid nourishment from another animal's body
kawari - n - an edible green, underwater algae/plant similar to terran seaweeds
kwilloa (quilloa) - n - Edible yellow fruit growing out of blue flowers.
paripo - n - edible yellow fruit hanging from a tree with broad bluish leaves
talaura - n - a large tuber, similar to a yam or potato. many varieties.
tavum - n - a pleasant intoxicant added to hot water or fruit juice.
wavooan - n, adj - fish, swimmer; generally used for any swimming organism
eddor - v - to appreciate, give thanks, show gratitude
eddora - n, adj - gratitude, thankfulness, appreciation
Eddo hanti bareen - I am thankful for family
Eddo hanti jove javegara, tev. - I am thankful for my friends, too.
by, 'vy - n, adv - question, ask, query; adv affixed to a conjugated verb
byr; by, byt bym - v - to ask, to question
bylas - n, adv - an entreaty or request, something you are asking another to do
bylasear'vy; bylase'vy, bylaset'vy, bylasem'vy - v - to entreat or request; please do this
Hello, it's me again! Do you have any Shelesh words/vocabulary for a beach day? Also, I'd love to learn more Shelesh idioms. Bylasem'vy tev eddor! ♥️
Okay here we go! I didn't have much specific to the beach so a few are new words, but I did have a lot of general weather/environment words. I've bolded particularly beachy ones.
aavoh- n, adj - wind, windy
daal- n, adj - land, earth, a natural surface beneath your feet
daar, daara- n, adj - Literally, rock or rock foundation, a village or small outpost between a city and a settlement in size. Plural form is daara.
gemiil- n - friut, fleshy reproductive housing of seeds
gemma- n - flower, colorful pollinator
haavol- n, adj - sky, air, airy
honndra- n, adj - sunlight, starlight, sunny
ibrawe- n, adj - rain, raining
ifflirrwe- n, adj - mist, fog, misty, clouded near the ground
imasaf- n - a shell, particularly one with a coiled spiral
jiik- n - heat, high temperatures
katas- n, adj - valley
kashiil- n - mountains, tall high peaks
kawari- n - an edible green, underwater algae/plant similar to terran seaweeds
novil- n, adj - hot, heat, warmth
novise- n, adj - fire, something that is burning
pivoa- n - nighttime, night, the dark part of the cycle
pivol- n, adj - cold, coldness
pivrawe - n, adj - sleet, sleeting
rofrawe- n, adj - snow, snowing
rofsov- n, adj - a ship for flying, a spaceship or airship (plane)
skrit- n - sand, ground up particles
terswabe- n, adj - edge of the water, shoreline
wabe- n, adj - water, fluid
wavosov- n, adj - a ship for swimming/diving, a boat
wavalo- n - gills or similar structures for breathing in water
wavooan- n, adj - fish, swimmer; generally used for any swimming organism
wavoor; wavoo, wavoot, wavoom- v - swimming
And of course, a few more fun idioms, some of which I've shared before or are from canon! I don't tend to actively make new idioms, I tend to stumble into them when something gets complicated or there's a phrase from the game that suits it. Below the cut because it's getting long.
an'do -"hide!" command or phrase commonly used by both angaran fighters and children
Ansala venjyuri' - unknown, used by Yeda when thanking Ryder.
aremiy lomahun - fate, chance, odd luck, Murphy's law; a casual sentiment about miscellaneous unpredicable fate 'as chance would have it'
Arosh enav - unknown, used by Jaal when greeting the wounded Yeda.
baddsof - rest well; the equivalent of telling someone goodnight
dos ashaan - noble fear, the fear that is considered positive as it keeps you safe.
gara ille rivo - someone excited, enthusiastic. A fan.
gosan yav daar - Being Stubborn as a Stone
govataan - welcome center
inalaara - the virtue of knowing one's course; or a good name for the brink of the unknown.
Kapisholaon - "The Disappeared" or the lost; angaran term for those people kidnapped by the Kett
keshirask nari - Exaltation, the process by which the Kett transform their captives
lom ashaan - chaotic fear, that makes you behave stupidly or recklessly; panic
neru kichari - sexual climax; orgasm
paavoa - welcome, a common angaran greeting;
paba rojav - "shields are down/broken"; the adjective is a combination of paaver and ibrar often used by angaran fighters to indicate that a shield has collapsed.
raba garessen - Roughly, sanctuary trips.
sejoh sheaddol - give peace to me, forgive me
Shelesh - to barter for the moon; name of the angaran language that serves as a lingua franca
skkut - a general expletive, used in contexts similar to fuck and shit
Hey there, I'm currently writing a fanfic about ME:A and while researching I kinda stumbled over your tumblr. And I'm so, so happy that I found this project about the angaren culture, biologie and language - especially cuz of the language. I'm triying to integrate some Shelesh in my story and your post really help a lot. At the moment I'm struggeling to find a word for the exiles (outcast, to cast out, displaced, expelled, s.o.) on Kadara. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks a lot.
Ooo, sounds wonderful! Glad to have you along for the ride. Exiles hmm, let's see what I have. The simplest thing might be to use vesegara - the term that the Roekaar use for all of the the Milky Way people. It's likely a repurposing of an existing Shelesh word. I have a general word for traitor too though! @uratowel
Vesegara - n, adj - uprooted people, or exiles, a derogatory term used by the Roekaar for individuals from the Milky Way.
shayfasan - n, adj - traitor, betrayer; lit. bloody heart
untao - n - an intimate bioelectric kiss, pressing the taon area of the jinesh together
ushey - n - a kiss, pressing your mouths together
The chest is a sensitive erogenous zone for angara, especially the knobby ends of the jinesh and the recessed area in between. Since the taon (bioelectricity generating organ) is located in this area too, bioelectric signals are felt very intensely. Taosovos (sharing emotions via bioelectricity) with your hand on someone else's chest is very intimate symbolically and physically.
