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[serpentface]

FAMILY TITLES AMONG THE HILL TRIBES

(ft. various linguistic notes and tangents)

In-universe Brakul’s self-given title of ‘Red-Dog’ is Brakul 'ne-Dainh' in his native language (Bict-Urbinnas dialect of the Highland language group) and Brakul 'Chin-Reyla' in Wardi. Ne-Dainh/Chin-Reyla is not something he treats as or considers an actual surname or identity, just a self-styled nickname. He already has a title.

Family names/surnames are not a native practice among the Hill Tribes (though some clans or individual families have adopted this practice), and all traditionally use titles that designate immediate ancestry, clan and tribe. These full titles are officially given when one comes of age and are spoken aloud in ceremony (with the entire direct male and female lines listed by name, with most traditions expecting 12 generations of each being named).

The function is to cement one’s sense of place in the world, and their place in a direct ancestral line, which puts the person under the full watch and guidance of their ancestors. It's also a critical method of recording lineage- the long held practice of each person memorizing at least 24 total direct ancestors allows for very long, largely accurate records of family history to be kept, with some people able to trace their ancestry all the way back to initial settlement of the Highlands (or even beyond).

Brakul’s full title is:

“Brakul virsum Kuligan et Borunil an Briyonis ne-Taig an Bict-Urbinnas”

Which dead literally translates to “Brakul son of Kuligan and Borunil of the Foothills (of) Red-Cattle, of the North (Urbin/Erubin) River Valley” but has a much richer meaning in the original language.

"BRAKUL VIRSUM KULIGAN ET BORUNIL"

The actual meaning here is closer to ‘Brakul, son of Kuligan and his father’s fathers, and Borunil and her mother’s mothers’.

“Virsum” means ‘child (son/daughter) of’ (the gender is contextual), but implies the person’s status as a descendant of a full male and female line of ancestors. A different word is used if you’re just saying ‘I’m so and so’s son”. The title describes him as a son of his father Kuligan and of Kuligan’s male line, and of his mother Borunil and Borunil's female line.

All ancestors (within this particular system of kinship, divided into one direct male line from the father and one direct female line from the mother, and not including husbands from the female line or wives from the male line) are invoked and credited with the word ‘virsum’. Speaking it as part of the personal title is part of the routine and necessary honoring of one’s ancestors, who watch over their descendants from the afterlife and can temporarily return to the land to guide and protect (and sometimes punish, or teach sharp lessons to) the living.

"AN BRIYONIS NE-TAIG"

The actual meaning here would be understood as ‘clan/people of the foothills where cattle are lit red by the setting sun'.

‘Briyonis’ is the word for ‘foothill’, citing his clan’s specific location being the foothills that form the slopes of the north Urbin river valley. He is of a lesser clan within the powerful North Urbin River tribe. His clan benefits from close affiliation to their more powerful ruling clans located directly in the river valley, which grants them access to a greater variety of cultivated foods, but their actual position in the foothills still renders them predominantly reliant on cattle for subsistence. Clan names referencing cattle or horses are very common, given their frequent centrality to life.

The ‘ne-Taig’ literally means ‘red cattle’, but the ‘ne’ color word for red specifically invokes shades of red seen in and cast by a rising/setting sun. This red cast is culturally regarded as a unique beauty and evocative (and part of the name) of the solar god Hraighne. The foothills his clan is physically located on are a vantage point from which the western horizon is not fully obscured by mountains, and they experience very striking sunsets and are directly touched by the light. This is fairly unique to this location, and is invoked in the clan name and identity. ‘Ne-Taig’ here suggests a visual of grazing cattle illuminated red by the sun as it crosses the horizon.

‘Ne-Dainh’ carries the same implication, a dog illuminated red by setting sunlight. The Wardi language does not have a comparable word for a sunlit red and ‘Chin-Reyla’ really does just mean ‘(orangeish) red dog’ (‘reyla’ is specific to orangey-red colors, which is the closest match he could get. There’s no way to impart the meaning of ‘sunlit-red dog’ in Wardi that is non-clunky enough to be appropriate for a name).

"AN BICT-URBINNAS"

‘an Bict-Urbinnas’ is fairly simple, Bict means ‘north’, and 'Urbin' is the name of the specific river that stems from a northern and eastern tributary. This river has a very ancient name (or a derivative of one) that predates settlement by the Hill Tribes, and its exact meaning is lost.

The root -(n)nas designates a river valley, but has strong implications of being an esteemed and bountiful place, rather than solely a literal geographical descriptor (as the river valleys are centers of power and trade in the highlands). It may be a loanword from the Wardi language family, as its usage is VERY similar in form and function to the Wardi -(n)nos, which also suggests a place of esteem and bounty (more specifically having connotations of a kingdom).

’An’ literally means ‘of’, but in the specific sense of describing the place and identity of a collection of people. ‘an Bict Urbinnas’ would be understood in speech as ‘of the north Urbin River Valley (people)’. The clans historically settled in and around the valley of the North Urbin River form the totality of the Bict-Urbinnas tribe.

The ‘Urbin’ word predates the contemporary Wardi name ‘Erubin’ for the river, the latter of which invokes the semi-mythological founding figure Erub, who himself was of a Wardi tribe located downriver to the south of the Highlands. The real historically extant ‘Erub’ was most likely named Urub after the river, with his cited name shifting over the centuries in folklore, and the Wardi name for the river shifting with it.

‘Erubin’ as a corruption of ‘Urbin’ functions very well in Wardi language due to ‘-bi/bin’ denoting something as a ‘gift’, usually in a more metaphorical sense. ‘Erubin’ is understood as meaning ‘(The river that is) Erub’s gift’, and the Erubin/Urbin river is a key tributary to the much larger Black river, one of the key rivers that feeds the region's wetter and more fertile west. This 'gift' meaning also occurs in the name of the southeastern Imperial Wardi city-state Erubinnos, which is understood as meaning ’((The kingdom that is) Erub’s gift’. He is considered to have conquered and taken the land (from the core city's actual founders, the Wogan people) and established a kingdom there in the early days of warring Wardi tribal monarchies.

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

gonna be more sporadic in posting from here on out, folks

[honeybard]

made a decision to delete the mobile app and try to limit my phone usage a bit more so just in case anyone notices, I am gonna be a little less active here for a time <3

[obeetlebeetle]

ok first week of four tens is over...... My back and shoulders hurt so bad I started crying earlier, we had 1-2 security incidents every day and two bad closings in a row (single staffed bc one person has to leave before closing to start project work) (said project work is what is killing my back and also shoulders) PLUS I gotta do all my regular tasks and not let my work fall behind. which it did a little bit this week. I am so fucking TIRED

[liddlediddy]

@aquaspiderart 's Pokecémber Day 1: Favorite Normal Type

[forget-me-nights]

I know this is obvious to most but friendly reminder that if your phone is overstimulating you with all these notifications and messages… you can and should turn them all off! Or at least put them on silent not sound, vibration or lightning (???) Unsubscribe to ad emails you don’t read anyway and put WhatsApp on silent (except maybe a select few)!

You’ll be bombarded with the new stuff and development when you have time to open the apps anyway, so no need to unnecessarily stress and overwhelm yourself!!

[jayskaiart]

btw. im on bluesky too lol! follow me if you want to :P i cant promise i’ll be super active but i’ll try to start posting my art there too

[soggypotatoes]

man. i went to learn to cross stitch with a kit i got recently, but it was missing the needle. fine, ok. went to learn punch needling instead - amazing!!! good!!! having fun watching my lecture while punch needling, turns out that's the perfect lecture watching activity!!! needle tip breaks clean off. ok cool. stops watching lecture. goes to complain to friends, messaging app on laptop doesnt work. want to uninstall it, but that's apparently an impossible task for a computer to do. install Another app so i can uninstall this one, maybe ill clean things up a bit and uninstall other things, too... nope, most of them need to be uninstalled manually. no information on how to do that, the info online i can understand just tells me to use a different app bc deleting it off my computer myself prob wont delete all of it and it'll keep taking up space. ok. download another uninstaller app, omg it's so fancy!! so easy to use!!!!! uninstalling is a premium feature. GIRL, THAT'S YOUR WHOLE JOB. JUST SAY YOU COST MONEY UP FRONT, WHY DO YOU NEED TO TRICK ME INTO DOWNLOADING YOU JUST TO TELL ME I NEED A SUBSCRIPTION??? go to uninstall both uninstaller apps. cant uninstall them. die

[carlos-tk]

i have a wip idea that i’ve been thinking about for 3 days straight and i know!!! i’m going to actually have to lock in to ever actually get it written. but gee it’s making me giddy!!

[dogbunni]

[humming-fly]

You played the FMA mobile game?? How???

oh it's actually fairly easy! someone made a whole slideshow document outlining how you do it but essentially if you have an iPhone you just have to make a japanese apple ID account and then log into it and download the app that way (then you can just log back into your english one you only need the japanese one when the app requires an update)

Here's the full slideshow outlining how to download the game as well as how to play it!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YBiaQYRkOK30xiCU_VrCVl_jjq5wgi5MyCXUqb6xLdU/edit#slide=id.p

[paleangels13]

Helloo, I still exist did anyone even notice I was mostly gone lol

Anyone interested in ehhh...slightly unhinged work-related talk?

No?

Well. Too bad

Anyone that knows me irl please ignore the tags – I'm embarrassed ✨🥰

[wild-moss-art]

I'll be real, not expecting twitters removal of the block feature to get it removed from any app stores. The reason tumblr has an NSFW ban is because it would be against the apple app store's terms of service, yet NSFW is allowed on twitter, which is sold on the same app store. Clearly the terms of service are not actually indicative of what they will allow. Twitter is a huge app that they are not interested in removing even when the terms of service are violated.

[brisskwinds]

i miss when social media didn't suck as much dude. it all started with deviantart doing that awful rebrand in 2020 and it's only progressively gotten worse from there

[punk-pins]

anybody else peeing on the clock rn