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Obduction Backer |
Joined: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:55 am Posts: 153
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I have been pooling over my D'ni guides and searching on the internet for stray bit of info with which I might carry out a sacred quest:
To attempt to Decipher the names of the D'ni-named ages.
I became inspired while reading the Book of D'ni over again- I was curious as to what the name "Terahnee" could mean, and I did a little research.
"Terahnee" seems to come from "Tehra," a noun meaning Tree, and "ahnee," a verb meaning to take/get. It therefore seems that Terahnee translates loosely as the tree-getting age, which makes sense, I guess, since it was the primary age that the people of Ronay fled to.
Looking through my guide, I found the word "Tahg," which means to give. I realized, then that "Tahgira" must mean something about giving. I realized that what was missing, -ira or maybe Gira, may then explain Eder Gira's name as well. Well, I thought about it and a common theme of both ages is ventilation of some sort.
Eder means to rest, or resting, so
Eder Gira may mean The rest age of ventilation
Tahgira may mean age of ventilation-giving, or something of that sort.
"Kemo" means fish, making Eder Kemo the fish rest age.
We still do not know what "Delin" means, so there doesn't seem to be any way of telling what Eder Delin, the apparently new age whose pictures I have fallen in love with, may have in store for us.
Eder Tsoghal seems to mean the rest age of ground/earth but may also mean caves or tunnels, as Gahlpo is a cave.
I can't figure out what Noloben means, but we do know that it was used as a museum age. That doesn't seem to help us, though.
Teledahn seems to be a word fused from pieces of two words: Tel, meaning guild, and Geh’Dahn, meaning wisdom. Maybe during the combination of these two words the G is dropped, forming Telehdahn. Thus Teledahn seems to be the age of the wise guild.
Kadish Tolesa. Well, took me a while to find out and I think I’ve surmised a reasonable answer: Kadish obviously refers to King Kadish. Took me a while to find out, but “to” means “place” and “lesh” means rule. To-lesh, and then with an extra “a” vowel at the ends for apparently no reason. Kadish Tolesa could therefore be Kadish’s place of rule, but could also mean Kadish's main place. Very iffy, but it makes sense.
Gahreesen- this is a weird one. Gah means and, Rees means to eat and ehn is a suffix turning rees into the third person. Basically it means “And it eats.” No idea why it’s named that. Maybe because it used to be a prison, who knows.
So, I know that there are a lot more but I'm sort of beat right now...so feel free to contribute if you have anything to add! Let's let this topic "toolehn!"
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