Glossary of Coscivian Terms

Æ

• æglasta - n. Church, from Gaelic eaglais.
• ælum - n. Water

A

• axerka - n. Colony. From High Coscivian, originally used to designate settlements placed by the First Coscivian Empire in their conquered provinces.
• ákisdurisēn - n. Political-economic system in which the state takes a leading, directive role in the economy, encompassing a range of systems from Gallic dirigisme to various forms of command economies. Derived from Ákidur, a title given to officials of the First Coscivian Empire who oversaw the construction and maintenance of roads and irrigation works, the term was coined during the Kilikas Enlightenment by the Ilánovan philosopher and economist Cain Pālin as an antonym for the early market-driven capitalist mode of production that was developing around the Kilikas Sea during that period. Other Kiravian Enlightenment thinkers, such as Ixion Asterôn and Lasarénus Sarkévir, embraced the term in their own works on political economy, whereïn they argued that an ákisdurisēx system of material relations was incompatible with kéarita (see below), and that a market economy was an essential component of a just republic, laying the foundations of the Kiravian branch of conservative-liberal thought.

B

• burgundirisēn - n. A liberal conservative political outlook associated with the metropolitan upper-middle classes. The term is common in political commentary and in the names of state-level political parties. Derived from the name of Burgundie, in reference to the mercantile classes of Valēka, Bérasar, and Kérvoak, who adopted such an outlook during the Kilikas Enlightenment, partially influenced by political thought in Burgundie, with which they conducted a great deal of business.

D

• darin - Lake. Common in placenames, e.g. Xistódarin ("Icelake"), Iber Darisk ("Lake Forest"), and Darin Kétersk ("Lake of the Woods").
• danrin - Family. Usually refers to a nuclear family, but can be used to denote an extended family sharing a single household. Found in scientific terms such as ronadanrin ("language family"), and as the translation for the Western taxonomic term genus.
• devahoma - Continent. From Iathei Coscivian deva(s) ("main", borrowed into High Coscivian where it took on a meaning similar to the English cardinal) + homa ("landmass").
• dóntra - An extended family, usually comprising three or four generations descended from a single grandfather or great-grandfather. Found in scientific terms such as ronadóntra, and as the equivalent of the English taxonomic term family.

Dh

• dhansten - Newspaper
• dhianbrikitorisēn - n. The idea that the various ethnosocial communities to which Coscivian-Kiravians belong should not be recognised by the state or have any legal significance.

E

• eruvix adj. Grey-green. Nominal form: eruvir.
• ēln n. The most general term for potato.

F

• fara - Sea, in the sense of a subdivision of a larger ocean, such as the Kilikas Sea (Fara Kilikas) or the Sea of Odoneru (Deśkafara, literally "Southern Sea").
• faravōlōn - Generic term for a marine corps, literally "sea troops". Kiravian marines are called kurraxinya specifically.

Ğ

• ğámpraxuruv - n. Nebula. From ğámpra ("womb") + xuruv ("cloud").

H

• hasa - n. Ship
• hérsan - n. Army

I

• iber - n. Coniferous forest, e.g. Gûdelix Iber.
• ion - n. Island
• ioskova - n. Ocean. Compare páska.
• îtexon - n. Electricity. From Classical Eskean aıtexoɰ (ray, skate) via High Coscivian.

K

• kalir - n. A mildly psychotropic herb, both smoked and used as a food seasoning. First cultivated by the Soran Coscivian people, possibly of Allyrian derivation.
• kéarita - n. Translated as "republic", "commonwealth", or "public state", ... Unlike republic, kéarita connotes neither democracy nor sovereignty. For millennia, it was used exclusively in reference to localised communities, whether city-states or villages, and is used as the official pretitle of many Kiravian states (e.g. Kéarita Kiygrava). Kirosocialist theorists claimed that a single-party state was the ultimate manifestation of a kéarita. Also unlike republic, kéarita is not an antonym of monarchy (prostakuv), with many Coscivian monarchies during the Inter-Imperial and Post-Imperial periods styling themselves as kéaritæ
• kirstuv - n. Decision-making body, usually translated as "committee" or "commission", but also "council". Traditionally (as far back as the First Inter-Imperial Period), a kirstuv was a council of elders governing a Coscivian village or tribe. Later, it came to mean a council that held authority over members of a particular ethnosocial tathra in a particular area, as well as the governing council of a multiethnic town or village that included representatives of the towns main tathræ and was responsible for resolving disputes among them. In modern Kiravia, it is the typical name for the legislature of a municipality or countyship, e.g. Sarkirstuv Pontevedrá ("The Pontevedra City Commission"). Both traditional and modern kirstuvya have an odd number of members - usually five, seven, nine, or eleven - to limit the frequency of ties.
• klen - n. Company
• krāstagisva - n. Trademark (literally "craftseal").
• Kūla - n. The Earth. Alternatively spelled Kyla.
• Kūlatæn - n. The second day of the traditional 8-day Coscivian week, also used as the translation for Tuesday. Literally "Earth day".

L

• lorya - n. Religion
• loryavôntix - adj. Religiously-neutral, not endorsing a particular religion or favouring one religion over another. Most notably used in Article Ź of the Fundamental Statute of the Kiravian Federacy, which states: ārka é loryavôntix us helvikor patrá vús ávexix ("the state is religiously-neutral and liberty of worship shall be upheld by it"). Generally held to mean a condition of sectarian equality that allows for that does not preclude state support for religion in general. Distinguished from lāsgix ("secular"), dhiloryax ("non-religious") and gliloryax ("irreligious").
• lōrum - n. Beer

M

• marka - Legislative act, e.g. the Submerged Lands Act (Marka Būfarahomá). Originally a Stairovix Coscivian word for oath or pledge, it was assigned the meaning of speech act in the High Coscivian writings of the philosopher Shafto and was later adopted into the titles of laws passed by the Imperial Stanora. Other legislatures in the Coscivian world emulated this practice, including the contemporary Federal Stanora and Kiravian state legislatures.
• mestiśuv - Person of mixed Kiravian and colonial native (e.g. Punthite) descent. From the Tryhstian mestiço.
• mulotra - Cremation

O

• ostra n. Politics

P

• páska - n. Ocean. Compare ioskova.
• pelan - n. An area of farmland surrounding the built-up centre of a town or city and enclosed by its walls, or a town containing such an area. Commonly found in placenames, e.g. Férapelan.
• plátum n. Capital (economic)
• pláturisēn n. Capitalism
• Pávlopláturisēn n. Laissez-faire economics, from Pávlodarstra (Paulastra) + pláturisēn.
• portán - n. Crab, from Gaelic portán.
• práta - n. Potato, from Gaelic práta. Replaces ēln in many dialects.

R

• rona - Language
• ronadanrin - A group of closely related languages. Although it translates literally to "language family", its meaning differs from that of the English term language family: Whereas the English term is now most often applied to primary language families such as Indo-European or Cosco-Adratic, ronadarin refers to smaller clades, for example the Romance languages or Bantoid languages. Primary families are instead termed ronadóntra (see below).
• ronadóntra - Primary language family

S

• Saron - n. The Moon. Natural sattelites of other planets are referred to as vrisdon.
• suluámakelēn n. Incorporated business, literally "autonymous company". Common in corporate names, usually abbreviated to SAK.
• suarux - adj. Very few; specifically in a quantity less than or equal to three.

Ś

• śank - n. / int. Expletive similar to the English shit, though it has lost any semantic connexion to actual fæces and is used to derisively refer to any material, behaviour, or state of affairs.
• śetantra - n. Sport
• śmex - adj. / int. Used to express sarcastic interest or attraction towards something the speaker finds unappealing. Śmex is of interest to lexicographers for its obligate sarcastic usage.

T

• tola - n. Door
• terion - n. Record

U

• ūsa - n. Mystical universal energy in many Coscivian folk religious traditions, similar to chi. Ultimately derived from the Proto-Kasavic Wàz, a different but related concept from early Cosco-Adratic tribal beliefs.

X

• xistum - n. Ice. Common in placenames, e.g. Xistódarin.
• xūron - n. King. From High Coscivian, originally referring to any sovereign monarch, and later as a subsidiary title of the Coscivian Emperor pertaining to several large divisions of the Empire, such as Xūron Antarisk ("King of the Antar Plateau"). During the Third Empire it also took on a technical legal meaning, referring to any ruler who enjoyed imperial immediacy regardless of their actual title and including elected rulers. It continues to be used as the generic translation for the titles of sovereign non-Coscivian monarchs.

Þ (Th)

• Thíarna - n. God, in a specifically Christian sense, as opposed to the more generic Saīon. From the Gaelic Thíarna, "Lord".
• thorn - n. Bridge. Common in placenames, such as Thortimur ("Bridgeport", from the genitive form thortisk)
• thramdastraterion - n. Household register. From thram ("house") + dastra ("select group, class") + terion ("record").