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[rolanni]

EDITED TO ADD: Thread frozen; I have my answers.  Thanks to everyone for being willing to help!

There has been a call for a(n updated) Liaden Dictionary.  I have located in my files a longish list of words that ought to get us started, but I don't have context for some of the words, and have come up empty guessing which book they must appear in (or they're there, but the search engine in my word processor passes them by -- this has happened before; the in-Libre search does not like apostrophes interrupting its words).

So!

Who can get me references -- that would be book and search phrase -- for the following:

a'trezla
balent'i kalandon
balent'i tru'vad
lazenia spandok
lisamia keshoc
palesci modassa
prethliu
tra'sia volectava'netra
Valcon Berant'a
Valcon Melad'a

Comments

[reedrover]

"Lazenia spandok," she said, rudely. HIs eyebrows shot up. "You speak Liaden?" "Well enough to swear and pidgin my way through a battle plan..." Agent of Change, last two pages of chapter 6.

"Thank you, I-" She shook her head and tried again. "Palesci modassa." That was the formal phrase of thanksgiving. Agent of Change, last two pages in chapter 7.

(Guess what I've been re-reading just this week...?)

Edited to add: a'trezla, Valcon Berant'a, and Valcon Melad'a are listed in the Mouse and Dragon published lexicon in the back of the book, but I can't nail down where they are used *in* the book at a glance. Hopefully this helps narrow it down?

Second edited to add. You have combined two phrases in your list above that are also both in the back of Mouse and Dragon. tra'sia volecta is separate from va'netra.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Aha. I'd forgotten about the glossary in the back of Mouse & Dragon. This may solve my problems.

Thanks!

Books only, search phrases to follow later

[ebartley.livejournal.com]

I still have the weird word lists in my gmail, so downloaded and a few minutes' searching tells me:

a'trezla is from Mouse and Dragon
lazenia is in Agent of Change
spandok is in Agent of Change
Balent'i is in I Dare
tru'vad is in I Dare
lisamia is in Plan B
keshoc is in Plan B
Palesci is in Agent of Change
modassa is in Agent of Change
prethliu is in Mouse and Dragon
tra'sia is in Mouse and Draogn *and* Local Custom, in the latter tra'sia volecta (not the longer form)
Valcon Berant'a is in Local Custom *and* Mouse and Dragon
Valcon Melad'a is in Local Custom *and* Mouse and Dragon

I don't find kalandon; I would guess Necessity's Child or Dragon in Exile (the latter two came out since I generated the list.) Oh wait, I see I generated a list from Necessity's Child e-arc. It's not in that, either.

I can find phrases easily and quickly this evening, when I'm at my own computer and can open ebooks with their full content. Assuming no one beats me to it, which would be fine. ;-) I just don't want to download everything over lunch when I already have everything downloaded and assembled at home.

Valcon Berant'a

[charlie russel (from livejournal.com)]

Local Custom: Start of Chapter 19 (Location 2299 in The Dragon Variation)

'"THE NAME OF THE valley," Er Thom said, deliberately—Anne thought—to cut off any additional questions she might ask, "is Valcon Berant'a. Korval's Valley, they say in Solcintra.'

Local Custom: Next PP in Chapter 19 (Location 2303 in The Dragon Variation)

'Anne looked out the window at the lush landscape, turning this burst of information over in her mind. Valcon Berant'a? The Liaden name Er Thom had given did not mean "Korval's Valley."'

Liaden/Terran Dictionary at end The Dragon Variation

Valcon Berant'a
Dragon's Price or Dragon Hoard, the name of Korval's valley

Re: Valcon Berant'a

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Thank you!