#word of the week

[thatsbelievable]

[official-wales]

you may have noticed that the official welsh word of the week isn't a weekly thing. why? because I'm stupid <3

[mxietars]

where I've been lately....

[blissfullyunawares]

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[jamietarttsnorthernattitude]

For the @ficwip word of the week: leaves

“My son’s in hospital. Why wouldn’t I be here? Bad Dad, that would make me, huh?” James sneered, teeth bared.

“You are a bad father, James. Always have been,” Georgie said.

“You should leave. Jamie doesn’t want you here.”

“Well, Jamie can tell me that himself, can’t he?”

“I’m telling you,” Roy said in a tone the allowed for no argument, though from what he could tell about Jamie’s father, he wasn’t exactly one to take a hint.

[eljefa]

[garden-of-thoughts-fruit-of-lips]

(Value) We do not allow our phones to drown in water if, within reach.

God did not allow Noah or his household to drown. (2 Peter 2:5).

Proverbs 20:5 "The thoughts of a man’s heart are like deep waters..."

Sometimes, we drown in our "thoughts." Christ (mediator), who is at God right hand, separated the water. (1 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 8:6 and Acts 2:33)

"...Let the dry land appear... God called the dry land Earth, but the collecting of the waters he called Seas..." (Genesis 1:9,10)

[best-non-english-word-torunament]

Word of the week 1: Cietrzew (Polish)

/ˈʨ̑ɛṭʂɛf/

Translation: Black grouse

The language: Polish is an Indo-European language belonging to the Slavic branch. It’s spoken by 36,7 million people in Poland, where it is the national language. One typical sound feature of Polish is the six s- or sh-like sounds [s, z, ʂ, ʐ, ɕ, ʑ] which are all pronounced closely and similarly to each other. There are also multiple affricatives (sounds combining a stop and a fricative, like the ch in the beginning of ‘church’ being pronounced [t͡ʃ]) made with these sounds. Using that many similar sounds is uncommon in the sound systems of the world’s languages. It is also possible to cluster up to four or five consonants in a row without a vowel.

Why cietrzew? It sounds awesome and it's very Polish: ci, trz and -ew all in one word. The verb “zacietrzewić (się)” comes from it, which means ‘to black-grouse oneself’ if I were to translate it literally. It generally means becoming angry and determined (other Polish speakers feel free to elaborate)

(and the bird is great too)

Submitted by @sierpeek

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[cartwrong]

For the @ficwip word of the week: bright.

Louisa rushed towards the sound of River's voice, ignoring the increasing size of blood drops across the hardwood floor. She pushed the door to the bathroom open, finding River sitting on the closed toilet, a towel held to his hand. The blood on it was bright and red and terrifying in its volume.

“River, what happened?” Louisa asked as she rushed to River, crouching in front of him, her hands hovering above the towel. 

“Sliced my hand trying to cut a sweet potato. It was stupid.”

[kolic]

Word of the Week - Wednesday 12. 3. 2025

Oh hey, it's wednesday again! Today's word of the week is

Gaennar /gaɪ̯n.nar/ [gaɪ̯nːar̥]

verb, transitive

to turn, to change

I don't have much to say about this word, except maybe that I used it for the word "settings" (which would be gäënni /jæɪ̯n.nɪ/) when I translated my little school project game into Kolic like a year ago as an extra feature.

I have more interesting WotW to write, I swear, but it's late, most of these would have to be made up first, and I just. couldn't be bothered. Maybe next week, sorry.

Example sentence:

"Gäërinvi," aera sínnän änrina, "aera gär ífinin haunu á."

"Turn around," the healer said, "I need to see the wound."

lit.: "Turn-yourself," is from-saying healer, "am I with-seeing wound her."

Gloss: "turn<REFL>-IMP-M," be.ATEM.F say-ABL healer, "be.ATEM.F 1SG see-COM wound-ACC 3SG.F.ACC"

Note: Here you can clearly see the demonstrative function of the personal pronouns. In this instance, the healer is pointing out that she's talking about the particular wound that has been previously established, so she says "haunu á," meaning something like "it, the wound," which would be most naturally translated to English as just "the wound." But also note that this is not in fact a definite article - Kolic doesn't have those.

[raks777]

Guess What?

JESUS LOVES YOU

Holy Scripture: John 3:16

[thatsbelievable]

[official-wales]

Official Wales Welsh Word of the Week

ffrwydro [froi-dro] - to explode

[aci25]

[blissfullyunawares]

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[jamietarttsnorthernattitude]

For the @ficwip word of the week: sick.

“Jamie, open the door.”

Each minute outside Jamie’s front door was ratcheting Beard’s nerves up tick by tick.

“Jamie. You know if I don’t actually see you Roy is going to be the next one here. Just open the door, you’re worrying us.”

“I’m fine, Coach. I'm just sick,” Jamie coughed as if to prove his point but Beard wasn’t swayed. “I don’t want you to get sick too. The team needs you.”

“The team needs you, Jamie. Please open the door.”

Beard heard locks slowly turning on the other side of the door and relief coursed through him, but it quickly turned to dread as Jamie opened the door a sliver before stopping. Beard could see only one grey and bloodshot eye and barely half of Jamie’s face with his hood pulled so tightly around his head. Beard stuck his foot in the crack of the door before Jamie could close it again.

“Jamie. Let me in.”

“Christ, Jamie, just let the fucking Yank prick in and get this over with will you?”

Beard’s blood ran cold and ice wrapped around his throat, cutting off his air supply. All his worst fears confirmed in one Mancunian accent, and not the happy one he’d become accustomed to over the last three years. No, it was the one that haunted Beard’s dreams on some nights. It was the voice that almost silenced Beard’s permanently.

James Tartt.

Fuck.