L E P/Social and political relations
Revision as of 08:29, 10 March 2010 by Na'rìghawnu (talk | contribs)
Lexical Expansion Project
Unless you are a designated editor, please do not edit this page. You may comment in the discussion page, or make your comments in the forum. This page is the working space of the editors.
Contents
face (B)
- social reputation
owe, debt (B)
enemy (B)
- Opposite of "friend." Greek distinguishes personal enmity from political or wartime enemies.
surrender, capitulate (B)
associate with, hang out with (A)
- Don't hang out with sky people!
free (A)
- not restricted
- not confined
- at liberty
gain, obtain, attain (v.tr.) (B)
- Through hard work, he gained the people's hearts.
- No matter what he does, he can never obtain a Toruk skull.
- After years of waiting, he attained the position of olo'eyktan.
- antonym of tatep?
intimate, close to somebody (B)
earn (A)
- Earn your keep
- You've earned a beating (skxawng!)
- Even if the Na'vi society doesn't use money or even trading for that matter, the concept of "earning" is still likely to exist.
due, deserved fate, comeuppance (B)
- Not with a negative connotation (as it usually has in English), but rather when someone "gets what they earned/deserve"
revenge (B)
- Obviously something the Na'vi understand (at least conceptually) with Jake's "well we will send THEM a message" speech.
to forgive (B)
avenge (C)
- get revenge for (someone else)
- constructible from "revenge"?
vindicate (C)
- This word typically has a more noble connotation than "avenge", and usually means "to get justice for" some other party that is typically otherwise unable to get justice for themselves.
justice (B)