Desert Vocabulary
To enhance the culture of the desert tribes, the Vandenal and Zahetnal, some of their own language is used in The Elusive Invader. I have included a little of their vocabulary as an aide for the reader. This list will also appear as an appendix in the novel.
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Desert
Word |
Translation |
|
awhirtol |
far sighted |
|
cleath |
a
well |
|
cleathral |
a well trail |
|
enhir |
iron |
| fhar | home |
|
fharan |
oasis / home place |
|
harl |
grass |
|
Harlrin |
grassland (Teyn) |
|
Harlrinal |
people of the grass land (Teyns) |
|
khal |
welcome
or hello |
|
khalfhar |
welcome home |
|
kleet |
sand |
|
lheset |
furnace |
|
nehad |
a
hostage exchange at a parley |
|
sarlene |
a
hundred |
|
Sarlene
Lhesetran |
place
of a hundred furnaces |
|
sobrhu |
viewpoint of the last horizon |
|
tahlen |
night
sky |
|
tanbir |
fifty |
|
tanryhal |
enemy
(esp. North Teyn) |
|
vand |
north |
|
Vandenal |
people
of the northern desert |
|
zahet |
south |
|
Zahetnal |
people
of the southern desert |
|
zehir |
leader / elder |
|
zholfhar |
shade
arch |
|
zholin |
sunset |
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