amiu - "ruh"

For ruhgozler:

Réélún "spirit"

Pronounced "ray-loon" (X-SAMPA [ r\`e:lun ]).

ruhgozler asked for a rendering of the first part of her name, which is a Turkish word meaning "spirit, psyche, id". None of this translates easily, but I picked a word that I thought had a similar feel.

Last week I went into lúe spiritual beliefs a bit; their feeling, as I mentioned, is that spiritual matter is liquid. There are many different kinds of this matter, fundamentally divided into living spirit (fresh water) and non-living spirit (sea water). Both types are found in people, and both types are represented by Réélún -- in both spoken and written form, the word is a combination of the two.

This belief system has some interesting corollaries. Marine animals are not considered to be "alive" in the same sense that people, land animals, and freshwater animals are alive. They can't exist in the lún matter that is the vital force of the living, so instead they must exist among the dead and the unborn. By the same token, non-living people are considered to be as real and present as the fish in the sea.

Next up in the icon queue is asphodeline. Questions, comments, requests are always welcome.

EDIT: Pssst, sedesdraconis. The albatross language is called Paaquìha:. It's looking pretty oligosynthetic at this stage.

amiu - "ruh"

For ruhgozler:

Réélún "spirit"

Pronounced "ray-loon" (X-SAMPA [ r\`e:lun ]).

ruhgozler asked for a rendering of the first part of her name, which is a Turkish word meaning "spirit, psyche, id". None of this translates easily, but I picked a word that I thought had a similar feel.

Last week I went into lúe spiritual beliefs a bit; their feeling, as I mentioned, is that spiritual matter is liquid. There are many different kinds of this matter, fundamentally divided into living spirit (fresh water) and non-living spirit (sea water). Both types are found in people, and both types are represented by Réélún -- in both spoken and written form, the word is a combination of the two.

This belief system has some interesting corollaries. Marine animals are not considered to be "alive" in the same sense that people, land animals, and freshwater animals are alive. They can't exist in the lún matter that is the vital force of the living, so instead they must exist among the dead and the unborn. By the same token, non-living people are considered to be as real and present as the fish in the sea.

Next up in the icon queue is asphodeline. Questions, comments, requests are always welcome.

EDIT: Pssst, sedesdraconis. The albatross language is called Paaquìha:. It's looking pretty oligosynthetic at this stage.